Awakening...

"Awakening to truth of reality is something that is very hard to talk about…
The simplest thing one can say about the experiential knowledge of awakening is that it is a "shift in one's perception" This is the heart of awakening…"

"This shift is not revolutionary…it is not a mystical experience; it is a simple experience…a remembering…It is a remembering of what we are, as if we'd known it long ago and had simply forgotten…it's not viewed as a personal thing…What we are wakes up from the seeker. What we are wakes up from the seeking."

"The problem with defining awakening is that upon hearing each of these descriptions, the mind creates another image, another idea of what this ultimate truth or ultimate reality is all about. As soon as these images are created, our perception is distorted once again… In truth, we are not capable of imagining what it is `that we are'. Our nature is literally beyond all imagination. What we are, is `that which is watching'—that consciousness which is watching us pretending to be a separate person. Our true nature is continually partaking of all experience, awake to every instant, to each and every moment…".............
Adyashanti