You don’t have to have complete comprehension of what awareness is all about in order to experience a glimpse of awareness. It may feel like a very primitive glimpse, but that’s why it’s workable in some sense. In fact, recollection is almost a memory of bewilderment, which brings a jerk of awareness and puts you back to square one each time it happens. You don’t work on awareness like collecting a paycheck and putting the money in the bank. Rather, you have the awareness, and then you disown it.

From “Recollection,” in Mindfulness in Action: Making Friends with Yourself through Meditation and Everyday Awareness,  page 101.

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