Translators of Eastern scripture use the word “Self” in reference to the unity, the oneness, of all that exists. They also often describe the experience of this Self as becoming aware of its “suchness:” its indefinable essence; its totality; what it is. This communicates to those of us who seek to have an awareness of the divine that the finite, personal self that we think is ours – our experience of personhood – is really indistinguishable from the universe, that just by being aware of God’s world we share in it; we are within it, indistinguishable from the universal, divine reality. God is us. We are God.
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