Excerpt from
A Guide To Awareness and Tranquillity
by William Samuel

Chapter XII

About Experience and Our Daily Affairs

Experience and Awareness are one and the same Identity-I. I cannot look at a single, unified Perfection, divide it into pieces, then call some of them good and some of them bad; consequently, I have no right to act as a judge. If I do, I must surely appear to suffer the consequences of one who pretends to sit in judgment of God; and if I'm stupid enough to do this, who would I be fooling but myself?

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QUESTION: Exactly what is this daily coming and going of the images of awareness we see? What is this "daily experience"?

ANSWER: It is the eternal nature of Awareness; the continuity of Mind being aware. Because there is no end to Mind's action, "experience" appears to NOW as an ever new "unfolding." We refer to this unfolding as newness, and this is what "experience" is—the ever newness of Now. This very instant Now is brand new, isn't it? Isn't it always?

QUESTION: Yes, but what is change?

ANSWER: It is the old man's judgmental opinion of Newness. When the intellect is let go, all that has ever been called change (for the better or worse) is seen as sparkling Newness, unbeholden to a past of accumulated causes.

When one unbinds his Now from the belief that all he sees is bound to a passel of prior causes, "miracles," "instantaneous healings" and all kinds of bright experiences are the usual.

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IDENTITY = AWARENESS = NOWNESS = EXPERIENCE

Listen carefully: Nowness is not a framework within which Awareness operates. Awareness is nowness. Nowness is Awareness. This Now-am-I is my very being and Identity.

Listen again: The combination of awareness and nowness has been called (by philosophy) "experience." Inasmuch as experience is this now-awareness and since this now-awareness is my Identity, this Identity I am is being all there is to this experience!

We do not have experiences. We do not suffer through one experience after another. We are no longer acted upon by events after we recognize that experience is the perusal of Identity! Experience is Isness being Self-aware! The experienced is the image of the Self!

Do you see what this means? We need quake no longer at that which turns out to be the mere shadow of our Self! Eternity is but the ever newness of Now. Pristine Now is "my" Identity. Nothing can happen to "me" unless it can happen to Eternity.

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It is not that Now is tributary to "I" or that I am tributary to Now; rather, it is that Now and I are one Identity, the same Being.

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Re-identification is instant release from the misidentification's self-stultifying pronouncements and from the effects they appear (to the misidentification) to have.

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WE EQUATE SELF AND EXPERIENCE AS ONE HARMONY

Since we do not have experiences, and experience is being who and what we are, experience is the action of Isness being Self-aware. Our daily experience is greater than could ever be imagined by the one who judges. It is above all comparison . . . no matter how it seems!

QUESTI0N: How is this applicable in a practical way?

ANSWER: I can only tell you to go about your daily affairs actually mindful that perfect Experience is the very Identity you are. Then just watch how practical it is!

Even by ordinary standards, Identity is established quite beyond the power of anything to disrupt. The force of an atomic blast can do nothing to Identity.

Tranquility is Tranquility. Love is what Love is. Spirit is Spirit and nothing inserts itself to make it something else. Perfect "Experience" is what it is—perfect experience. It includes all that is called "the power of the atom," yet there is no force within it harmful to itself.

Experience is my Identity. Identity, like a name, is untouched by tribulation!

We equate Self and Experience as one Harmony!

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QUESTION: What do we see?

ANSWER: What Awareness "sees" is our own heart-felt Self-Identification. If one has been looking on a personal poverty, misery and fear, he is assuredly mistaking his Identity and viewing the evidence of that mis-identification.

Inevitably, the mis-identifier's view of a Perfection considered outside himself must appear to him as a universe "out there," as a world divided into two camps and those camps subdivided at every point to their mutual distrust and ultimate neutralization, as a good versus evil, white-black, hot-cold, materialistic-idealistic orgy of opposing judgments, ending only with the "new birth"—re-identification—and with the end of personal judgment such re-identification brings.

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HOW TO VIEW THE WORLD

Experience appears as however I view my own Identity. Considering myself limited, frustrated, bound-to-a-body man (manifestation), I appear to myself as I believe I am. Contrariwise, knowing Identity to be that which is being the universe and all in it, I must commence to view Now (and all that appears as the "things-experience" within Awareness) as the actual-I that I am, as the Holy Perfection of the One perfect Being. I see every petal of every flower, every twig, every leaf, every rock, every mountain, every star and galaxy that thunders through the heavens and constitutes the universe, as one of the infinite qualities and attributes of my perfect Father, the ineffable Godhead itself; Single Identity perceiving Itself and being "I."

Reader, read this selection again!

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The day one is enabled simply to let experience be what it is—that is, to let Awareness be unjudgingly, motivelessly aware—is the day one takes tangible hold of the mantle.

How to "let" is the question of the day. It is not done with effort. It is not done with much grinding of the teeth. It is not done by ignoring appearances. It is done by grace and motivelessness. It is done as love, as gentleness, as tenderness and forgiveness. It is not done by the old nature at all, but by letting the old nature go with re-identification. It is done by Identity come to bloom—and the nourishment for the new bloom is the insistent acknowledgment that Isness, Self-Identified, is even now the only one I am. This is God's grace! This is Light and Love!

The flower blooms when it blooms.

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