The Journey Of Awakening

The greatest mystery of the universe is not out in the. In outer space. The mysteries of the galaxies, the mysteries of the black holes, the billions of galaxies that exist, that it is phenomenal. It's unbelievable. And the greatest mystery is not on the atomic level, which is also unbelievable. The world that is there, the atomic and subatomic level that scientists explore, which we only understand a tiny fragment of, just as we only understand the tiniest of fragments of what is out there. So you have the two realms, the two mysteries, the outer space and then the macrocosm, and you have the microcosm. And people write books, great scientists write books about the mysteries of the universe. And the amazing thing is, many of these books, very good books, fail to mention one word. They explore them as mysteries of the universe. But there's one word you can have a whole book on the mysteries of the universe, either the macrocosm or the microcosm, or the two together. The one word that's not mentioned is consciousness, which is the most fundamental mystery. The fact that the universe is conscious. That is the most amazing miracle. How do I know that the universe is conscious? Well, I am conscious. You are conscious. The universe is conscious. In us, the universe is experiencing itself for a brief moment as a human being. It's also experiencing itself for brief moments as a plant or an animal. And that's an amazing thing. Now, scientists are probably never going to figure out what consciousness, if it's even possible to figure out what consciousness is, because scientists are concerned with looking out there. You can either look out into outer space or you look into the most, the innermost of matter. But what scientists don't look at is their own consciousness, which is the universe looking at itself.

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