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I amness. So many objects are in great haste, there are so many feelings, in great haste, so many ideas are in great haste, a lot of drama and terror and to love and hate, and stay for some time, and no. But one thing can not come, there is one thing will not disappear. What is it? What is the matter, you only exist in the sense of the right, now you can remember is that five years ago? This eternal, forever feeling, the current I amness is currently because it is five years ago.           The Ever-Present Witness       I AMness. That sense of I AMness is an ongoing, self-knowing, self-recognizing, self-validating I AMness. It is present now, it was present 5 hours ago. All my thoughts have changed, all my bodily sensations have changed, my environment has changed, but I AM is ever-present, radiant, open, empty, clear, spacious, transparent, free. Objects have changed, but not this formless I AMness. This obvious and present I AMness is present now as it was present 5 hours ago.   What was present 5 years ago?   I AMness. So many objects have come and gone, so many feelings have come and gone, so many thoughts have come and gone, so many dramas and terrors and loves and hates have come, and stayed awhile, and gone. But one thing has not come, and one thing has not gone. What is that? What is the only thing present in your awareness right now that you can remember was present 5 years ago? This timeless, ever-present feeling of I AMness is present now as it was 5 years ago.   What was present 5 centuries ago? All that is ever-present is I AMness. Every person feels this same I AMness — because it is not a body, it is not a thought, it is not an object, it is not the environment, it is not anything that can be seen, but rather is the ever-present Seer, the ongoing open and empty Witness of all that is arising, in any person, in any world, in any place, at any time, in all the worlds until the end of time, there is only and always this obvious and immediate I AMness. What else could you possibly know? What else does anybody ever know? There is only and always this radiant, self-knowing, self-feeling, self-transcending I AMness, whether present now, 5 minutes ago, 5 hours ago, 5 centuries ago.   5 millennia ago?   Before Abraham was, I AM. Before the universe was, I AM. This is my original Face, the face I had before my parents were born, the face I had before the universe was born, the Face I had for all eternity until I decided to play this round of hide and seek, and get lost in the objects of my own creation.   I will NEVER again pretend that I do not know or feel my own I AMness. And with that, the game is undone. A million thoughts have come and gone, a million feelings have come and gone, a million objects have come and gone. But one thing has not come, and one thing has not gone: the great Unborn and the great Undying, which never enters or leaves the stream of time, a pure Presence above time, floating in eternity. I am this great, obvious, self-knowing self-validating, self-liberating I AMness.   Before Abraham was, I AM.   I AM is none other than Spirit in 1st person, the ultimate, the sublime, the radiant all-creating Self of the entire Kosmos, present in me and you and him and her and them — as the I AMness that each and every one of us feels.   Rest as I AMness always, the exact I AMness you feel right now, which is Unborn Spirit itself shining in and as you. Assume your personal identity as well — as this or that object, or this or that self, or this and that thing — resting always in the Ground of it All, as this great and completely obvious I AMness and get up and go on about your day, in the universe I AM created.   It's a new day, it's a new dawn...           —Ken Wilber, The Integral Vision: A Very Short Introduction to the Revolutionary Integral Approach to Life, God, the Universe, and Everything, Chapter 7 - Not the End, But the Beginning.                 Indexes/11