By Peter Russell / “You have no location in space. Space is in you.”

 Although the self may never be known as an object of experience, it can be known in another, more intimate, immediate way. When the mind is silent, and the thoughts, feelings, perceptions, and memories with which we habitually identify have fallen away, then what remains is the essence of self, the pure subject without an object. What we then find is not a sense of “I am this” or “I am that,” but just

“I am.”

In this state, you know the essence of self, and you know that essence to be pure consciousness. You know this to be what you really are. You are not a being who is conscious. You are consciousness. Period.