The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) / quote 120 of 125
Who are you?
Who are you? Ramana asked. Just that. Who are you? Find the quick of your sense of identity, of your most intimate sense of you-ness, and see what you consist of for yourself. “You are awareness,” he said. Awareness is another name for you. Since you are awareness there is no need to attain or cultivate it. All that you have to do is to give up being aware of other things: that is of the not-Self. If one gives up being aware of them then pure awareness alone remains, and that is the Self. That was it. That was Ramana’s entire practice—if practice it could be called. To be wary, not just of the glamour of the esoteric, but of the glamour of religion, period. For what we are looking for is right under our noses.