Awareness Is Not Empty          By Sandy Jones

 

Someone asked: "When we are one with awareness do we stop thinking? Because it is said that 'being with awareness is being with a silent mind"....

Yes, that is true, but it is also very untrue and mis-leading.

My Awareness is not empty at all, ever. I continue to think.

I am never a blank or without thoughts and ideas. The Divine Silence is full and overflowing with expression and thought.

I am full of thoughts and sound, and emotion, and wonder and, a vast array of color and intuition, imagination, creative ideas and feeling, and images, discernment and intelligence, all the senses are just wide awake and Here, perfectly Here and having a good time just being who I am.

I am thinking, but now the thoughts come in very peaceful and quiet sort of way, and yet a deep and rich sort of way....My being feels a deep silence, yes, but I am full and not silent all at once.

My Awareness is full to briming over with more than I have words for.... But, I am Still and Here and Present and calm and strong ....

Hey, now that I mention it, being with Awareness, yes, I guess I have stopped thinking in a way....I have stopped thinking from a limited point of view, my thoughts are much lovelier now, much sweeter...there is a peace, and thoughts are almost unnoticed until I need to use them......My thoughts come effortlessly and easily and I personally find them to be quite enjoyable and so interesting and wonderful or just sweet, and fun or funny, nice... nice thoughts all the time, simple, easy, really, honest....

Hmmm, I had not thought about this until just now... But...the thinking is infused with Grace....It is Light, and breezy, it seems to have a certain Beauty and Depth now and Always.....

I guess I would say I did stop thinking....but, I have stopped thinking greedily, needingly, hungerily, angrily, desirously, enviously, argumentitively, fearfully, defensively, narrowly....Yes, that sort of thinking has come to a complete halt.... stopped cold, dead in the water......and I didn't have to do anything to have that happen, it just simply happened as the Peace of This Divine Awareness made Itself more and more obvious. ...

But, no, for me all thinking does not stop.....

The thinking just gets bigger, higher, fuller, richer, deeper, kinder, comforting, softer, gentler, wiser, tender, caring, ....Like it is filled with a certain Spirit of the Heart that just makes it More not less.

I love this Grace that has found Me, and for This I am most grateful. I don't have to go anywhere, its all right here, I enjoy my own company and actully I get what I am saying and understand my own jokes...I may be the only one who does, but that works perfect for me....

Thanks for the good question and allowing me the opportunity to See all this.

I knew I was still thinking...but Now I see 'not the same thoughts as before'....Wow, Its truly sensational, Life is just Divine.

Love, Sandy

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