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What Remains?

V5.5

We've asked... A lot... Of questions. Whose Life... Is it? Who were you... Before... Your name? What are you... Without... The body? Who... Is breathing? Who... Is looking? What... Is aware? And between... One thought... And another... What... Is there? We asked... If God... Is Spirit... What exactly... Have we been... Picturing? And if humanity... Was made... In the image... Of Spirit... What would... That image... Look like? Could you... Even see it? We listened... To the ego... Trying... To protect... The person... It learned... To call... Me. And then... We noticed... Something... Could hear... The protector. We went back... Before language... And asked... What was... The Word... Before... Words? We looked... At this vessel... And asked... Where... Its power... Came from. And underneath... Every description... We kept finding... The simplest... Thing. I AM. But tonight... Let's let... Even that... Go. Not because... It is wrong. But because... I AM... Is still... Something... We can say. And perhaps... What we are... Trying... To notice... Was here... Before... We said... Anything. So... For just... A moment... Let go... Of your name. Not forever. Just... For now. Let go... Of your age. Your history. Your accomplishments. Your failures. Let go... Of the face... In the mirror. Let go... Of the story... You tell... About the body. Let the ego... Rest. It doesn't need... To protect... Anything... For this moment. Let go... Of every picture... You have... Of God. Every face. Every throne. Every place. Every distance. Now... Let go... Of our pictures... Too. Spirit. Life. [Pause] Awareness. Being. Beautiful... Words. But still... Words. Let them... Go. Don't replace them. Don't search... For something... Better. Don't try... To understand... What is happening. Because... There it is... Again. The mind... Trying... To make... One more thing... To hold. Let that... Go Now... There is... Nothing... For me... To tell you. And nothing... For you... To believe. So... Before... The next thought... Before... The next name... Before... The next definition... Before you decide... What any... Of this... Means... What... Remains? Don't answer. If an answer... Appears... Let it... Pass. [Long silence] And when... That answer... Is gone... [Extended silence] What... Remains? [Three minutes of near-silent evolving ambience] [One distant breath] [Long silence] [End]