Abandon your desire for happiness or enlightenment. Just be knowingly your self. – Rupert Spira To book onto Rupert’s upcoming retreat: https://rupertspira.com/event/2024-05-31-seven-day-retreat-at-the-vedanta-31-may-to-7-june-2024 Sign up to receive the weekly newsletter: https://rupertspira.com/auth/login?utm_source=social&utm_medium=signup&utm_campaign=newsletter | Rupert Spira

To celebrate the release of 'Being Myself', the second book in The Essence of Meditation Series, Rupert reads an excerpt from each chapter for you all to enjoy. 'Being Myself' BOOK CLUB You are welcome to join the Free Weekly Being Myself Book Club on Zoom, which runs every Wednesday for 15 weeks, starting Wednesday, 8th December 2021 from 5pm GMT // 12pm ET. Hosted by Bill Free from A Course in Miracles, and others, it will include periodic live visits by Rupert Spira to answer questions about

Find yourself first as the witnessing presence of awareness in the background of experience. Recognise yourself as that and be that knowingly. 'I' is the name we give to the knowing, aware, perceptual element of experience. Simply know being; be aware of being. Awareness of being is happiness itself. Awareness has no form, but assumes all forms of experience. Why do I believe that I am a temporary, finite separate self and suffer? This infinite awareness must seem to become a finite mind. The in