When you’re sleepwalking, you’re giving recognition to some memory, some condition, some thoughts. You’re noticing someness instead of wholeness. In eliminating the beauty of all there is right now, you are selling out to some remnants of dead thoughts, to deteriorated corpses of your imagined self, and to burned-out relationships from centuries ago. You are far away from being timeless and free.

Instead, you are time-bound, carrying your skeleton just a little longer into your keeping-up-my-story graveyard. The person we believe ourselves to be is standing right between us and reality. They are creating us out of reality and then separating us from it. They are unenlightening us to a dream about reality, rather than being that reality without the person…

~ excerpt from the new book You are. Liberation.