Stillness is your essential nature. What is stillness?  The inner space or awareness in which the words on this page are being perceived and become thoughts.  Without that awareness, there would be no perception, no thoughts, no world.   You are that awareness, disguised as a person.   ET

The consciousness possessed by the hidden observer cannot be a fitful one. Being the very principle of awareness, able at any time to shine through its projections, the wakeful or dream selves, it must therefore be an unbroken and unfailing one.  PB

The ego self is the creature born out of man’s own doing and thinking, slowly changing and growing. The Overself is the image of God, perfect, finished, and changeless. What he has to do, if he is to fulfill himself, is to let the one shine through the other. Notebooks  8.1.7