The Door Between Prison and the World

‘I am’ is the first thing awareness knows of itself, the last thing the mind knows. But if the mind investigates its essence, it arrives at ‘I am’. This intersection between awareness and the finite mind is like a door between prison and the outside world. The knowledge ‘I am’ that each person seems to have is the trace of God’s being in us. In religious language, God knows nothing, not even know that it is God – only that it is ‘I am’. To know anything else, it would have to stand apart from itself. The mind perceives the reality of God’s infinite being through its own limitations – the filters of thinking and perceiving – and refracts it into a multiplicity and diversity of names and forms. The universe is just God’s infinite being viewed through thinking and perceiving. Filtered through thinking, God’s eternity appears as time. Filtered through perceiving, God’s infinite being appears as space.