Awareness and consciousness

Is there a distinction between awareness and consciousness?

Consciousness is the material for creation. It creates the subjective self and the objective world, similar to a dream creation.
Awareness is the deep unborn.

Awareness is like the witness of both, the subjective self and the objective world, itself being neither.

Beyond awareness is the Absolute, the sole reality. The Faceless one.

No more can be said.

(Note~These are inspired writings, not purely my own)

End of attainment

When you contemplate that you have attained all that needed to be attained, nothing remains.
Purity. Emptiness. Void. Awareness.
One.

Lessons in loss

By far, the most important life skill is dealing with a deep loss.
When you lose something deeply valuable, you imagine that you cannot cope without it.

Learning to cope with loss is a deeply spiritual process.

One realizes that to pin any hopes on anything that can be lost is a futile undertaking.

To hope for anything is to set up for loss. Be grateful for the that which you have now.

Be grateful for the simple things in life like sunshine, open blue sky, the ocean, laughter, watching lovers make out, and above all to remember your soul. This is true serenity.

Liberation through financial independence

Liberate yourself first.

In today's time, liberation begins by being financially independent. Financial independence implies that you are not dependent on a monthly paycheck for survival.

Financial independence begins by the creation of assets. Assets are those which put money into your pocket.
If you want to be financially independent, focus on creating assets.

Quote from a celtic soothsayer

'I walk along a Crooked Path. A dark and winding road. My legs are weak, my eyes are tired. My back is bent and bowed. I carry the wisdom of the Ages. The knowledge of the Fallen. The Left Hand Way, the Crooked Path I walk, lest all is forgotten'.

 ~ Celtic Soothsayer

Breaking out of consciousness

As long as one is conscious, there will be pain and pleasure. You cannot fight pain and pleasure on the level of consciousness. To go beyond them, you must go beyond consciousness, which is possible only when you look at consciousness as something that happens to you, and not in you, as something external, alien, superimposed. Then suddenly, you are free of consciousness, really alone, with nothing to intrude. And that is your true state. Consciousness is an itching rash that makes you scratch. Of course, you cannot step out of consciousness, for the very stepping out is in consciousness. But if you learn to look at your consciousness as a sort of fever, personal and private, in which you are enclosed like a chick in its shell, out of this very attitude will come the crisis which will break the shell.

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Dealing with selfishness

Dealing with selfish people is difficult. You are contaminated by their countless meaningless desires. Satisfying their desires will never lead to anything since they will keep on demanding everlastingly.
Denying their desires will make you feel guilty.

One way is to make demands on them every time they make demands on you, so that they eventually stop.
But if they perceive you as selfish, they will do the same thing, and the cycle continues.

Best way is to liberate oneself.

What is the best way to deal with selfish people? The only way seems to liberate yourself.

Be in a position where you do not need to be selfish.