The truth of who you are is right here and always was. You have just overlooked it. It is never apart from you; it is never anywhere but here. You are it and you swim in it! You are this most beautiful light and energy; you always have been and always will be. At this very moment, stop, just take a mindful breath, in and out, with awareness, and feel your aliveness. Let aliveness fill you; allow it to be as it actually is, alive and full and in every molecule and particle and wave of your being. Let everything go, every thought of who or what you thought you were or what you thought it was all about. Just be, just sink into being, sink into Now. Allow yourself to relax, to sink into yourself, to fall into Now. Now.

“Whether I am conscious of it or not, I am one with the cause of all that exists. Whether I know it or not, I am one with all the love in the universe.”

- Thaddeus Golas, The Lazy Man’s Guide to Enlightenment

I am the Awareness between thoughts … and so are you. All the thoughts you think you are, are ephemeral and insubstantial. Thoughts suddenly appear and then dissolve into conscious space. What is real is conscious space - how amazing! Thoughts have their function and use, but they are not who you really are. You are the vast, shining essence of Energy, of Being. You are the consciousness between and behind and through thought and all apparent manifestation.  Thoughts are made of this essence, as all is.  All reduces to this essence, this conscious space, this luminous emptiness. It is the ground of all being. 

The key to meditation is to do it. Spend time each day being completely still and quiet. Set your world aside for a few minutes, go inside and look, feel, and listen in a surrendered and open state. Allow Presence to reveal itself. Of course Presence is present; how could it not be? It is the bottom line truth of who we are; it is the energy of Life. Our directive in meditation and ultimately in our everyday reality is to become conscious of this Presence and to more and more live our lives from this consciousness.