I Am' Is the Portal to Freedom

Imagine you are a newborn infant, just born – with no memory, experience of having or being a body in a world. All you know is ‘I am’. Imagine you're on your deathbed; the room is dark and quiet, and your eyes are closed. All you know is ‘I am’. For the mind, these two experiences are separated by time and space. For being, they are the same, outside of time or space. ‘I am’ is a two-way portal. In birth, the eternal ‘I am’ apparently acquires limits and becomes ‘I am this’ or ‘I am that’. In death, the ‘I am’ loses its apparent limitation, steps out of time and space and enters eternity. Every time we take the thought ‘I am’ and allow ourself to be drawn into its referent, it becomes the portal, the golden thread, that connects us to freedom, to the ocean of peace that lies behind the mind.

From event 09 - 16 October, 2022 Seven Day Retreat at Garrison Institute – 9th to 16th October

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