However we are led to the path of awakening to the true Self, we then begin the process of looking for the changeless Self amongst the continuously varying states of our minds, bodies, and emotions. We let go of old ways of being in favor of ones that support our awakening. We learn to quiet our minds and open our hearts in order to tune into the subtleness of the true Self. With dedication, this awakening occurs, and we are aware of our eternal, boundless, and perfect nature. Although we previously experienced feelings of being isolated in the idea of “I,” we realize that all the while we were the Divine. We were never really separate. The true Self has always been here! Let us end this course by allowing ourselves to deeply feel these beautiful words from Gangaji on the true Self (http://www.gangaji.org):

There is a great secret that beings throughout time have announced,
the secret of an extraordinary treasure, the treasure of the nectar of eternal life.
It is the nectar of pure beingness,
recognizing itself as consciousness and overflowing in the love of that recognition.
If you imagine yourself to be located in a body, then you will move that body from place to place,
searching for this treasure of nectar.
But, if you will stop all searching right now and tell the truth to yourself,
you will know what is known in the core of your bones.
You will know what these great beings knew and attempted to describe.
You will know it with no image of it, no concept of it, no thought of it.
You will know it as that which has eternally been here.
And you will know it as yourself.

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