Chamber One - The Hall Of Remembrance
Before you became someone, you were already here.
Welcome to The Hall of Remembrance
Peaceful Presence
There is nothing you need to believe here.
Nothing you need to become.
And certainly nothing you need to prove.
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This is simply an invitation to remember.
​Beneath everything you think about yourself,
beneath every story you carry,
every role you play and every experience you have gathered,
we invite you to notice something remarkably simple:
Presence.
​A quiet awareness that was here, even before
this sentence began.
We call this Peaceful Presence.
​Before the Story
Peaceful Presence Simply is
It does not need to explain itself.
It does not need an identity.
It does not need to know whether it is successful, lovable,
spiritual, safe enough, good enough
—or even enlightened enough.
It exists before all of those questions arise.
And yet, something extraordinary happens.
Presence becomes capable of experiencing.
For experience to arise,
there must somehow be a point from
which experience can be perceived:
It´s all about Perspective & Perception
Peace is...
´´The Ever-Present
Background Of All Experience.´´
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​-Rupert Spira-
The Great Deception
The deception is not that we perceive.
The deception begins when we forget
that we are perceiving.
We begin to mistake:
our thoughts for facts,
our beliefs for truth,
our wounds for identity,
our interpretations for reality,
and our particular perspective for the whole picture.
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Slowly, almost invisibly, the lens through which we look...
becomes the world we believe we are looking at.
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Liberation is the end of the Illusion
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My dear friend,
my dear seeker for remembrance,
So we return to our quest for One-ness
And perhaps this is where something even more beautiful becomes possible.
When I stop insisting that my perspective is the true perspective, I can make room for yours.
Your window may show something mine cannot.
Your experience may reveal something invisible from where I stand.
We no longer have to fight or destroy our different perspectives in order to find unity.
You don´t have to convince me; I don´t have to convince you.
You don´t have to conquer me to feel safe; I don't have to conquer you anymore
to feel safe.
Quite the opposite.
We can allow our perspectives, our perceptions, our opinions and our personalities
to exist within something larger.
Peaceful Presence becomes the space in which our different perspectives are
allowed to meet.
And as separation begins to soften, we begin to soften.
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And it is not that everything has to become the same.
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It is because difference no longer has to mean division.
Or separation.
Or polarization.
This is Unification.
Is this than the end of the individual?
No, my dear friend,
It is the remembering of our individuation, our true self.
It is the remembering of the One within the many: Peaceful Presence.
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And So We Return at the door of this chamber of Remembrance.
Which is the entrance and the exit at the same time.
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Perhaps our mutual spiritual journey is not really a journey
from darkness into light.
Because even light creates contrast.
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Perhaps it is something quieter.
A journey from unconscious perception…
to seeing.
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From identification…
to recognition.
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From separation…
to remembrance.
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From Deception…
back to Peaceful Presence.
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And wonderfully, you don't have to abandon Perspective or Perception
when you return.
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You can still play.
Explore.
Love.
Create.
Wonder.
Disagree.
Laugh.
Cry.
Get gloriously confused from time to time.
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You can experience the whole strange beauty of being human…
without requiring every thought passing through your mind to be Reality.
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And perhaps that is the freedom. The free will.
Not escaping life.
But experiencing life fully while remembering the Presence
from which the experience arises.
So before you enter the next chamber, stay here for a moment.
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No searching.
No fixing.
No becoming.
Just notice.
Behind the thoughts…
behind the story…
behind the person you have learned to call me…
what is already here?
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Welcome to the Hall of Remembrance.
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Welcome back to what never left.
Peace to you.
And Presence.