If You’re Not Aware, What Are You?
What does it take to be aware? Does it take all of you? Does it take a lifetime of focus? If you’re aware of what happens one moment and unaware the next, what happens to you?
What we do with our lives, how we take it all in, and why we do things matters. It matters deeply. Just noticing our breathing–the feel of the air through our windpipes, the expansion and contraction of our diaphragms–is enough to make us feel utterly, undeniably, eternally alive. And when we are not focusing on these things that happen, how alive are we? Are we alive if our lungs work, our hearts beat, our cells exchange nutrients but our minds don’t follow what happens? In a sense we certainly are, but that’s a different kind of life. It’s not a life wholly in the flow of things.
If you’re not aware, you are the same as being aware…but there’s just less of you to know the difference the moment makes.
