# The Heart of Awareness  ## Metadata - Author: [[Thomas Byrom]] - Full Title: The Heart of Awareness - Category: #books ## Highlights - My child, you can talk about holy books all you like. But until you forget everything, you will never find yourself. ([Location 17](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0BJ7ZXLBG&location=17)) - Be happy. Love yourself. Don't judge others. Forgive. Always be simple. Don't make distinctions. Give up the habit of choice. Let the mind dissolve. Give up preferring and desiring. Desire only your own awareness. Give up identifying with the body and the senses. Give up your attachment to meditation and service. Give up your attachment to detachment. Give up giving up! Reject nothing, accept nothing. Be still. But above all, be happy. In the end, you will find yourself just by knowing how things are. ([Location 43](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0BJ7ZXLBG&location=43)) - At least half of the book describes the nature of the master, the man who has found his way. ([Location 56](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0BJ7ZXLBG&location=56)) - even the ugliest form is filled with God's radiance. The body is nothing, the Self is everything. ([Location 77](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0BJ7ZXLBG&location=77)) - It is easy. God made all things. There is only God. When you know this Desire melts away. Clinging to nothing, You become still. . . . ([Location 103](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0BJ7ZXLBG&location=103)) ## New highlights added June 11, 2023 at 10:36 AM - If you wish to be free, Know you are the Self, The witness of all these, The heart of awareness. ([Location 107](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0BJ7ZXLBG&location=107)) - When a man realizes 51 He is neither the doer nor the enjoyer, The ripples of his mind are stilled. ([Location 390](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0BJ7ZXLBG&location=390)) ## New highlights added September 16, 2024 at 7:56 AM - Because the fool wants to become God, 37 He never finds him. The master is already God, Without ever wishing to be. ([Location 372](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0BJ7ZXLBG&location=372))