Just Be!
Awareness primary experience is to know itself. The I that knows is the I that is known.
The only way to know our true self is to be. Directing our attention to it does not work because awareness knows itself. Focus our attention forces the object-knowing mind relation.
"Be aware of the experience of being aware. Relax your attention, let in."
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