The Power of Now - You are not your mind

elation With astonishment, disbelief, and elation, he saw that the box was filled with gold. conjure The word enlightment conjures up the idea of some superhuman accompulishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but it is simply your natural state of felt oneness with Being. conviction: a strong persuasion or belief By misuse, I mean that people who have never even glimpsed the realm of the scared, the infinite vastness behind that word, use it with great conviction, as if they knew what they are talking about. affliction Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don't realize this because alsmot everybody is suffering from it, so it is considered normal. trancelike It is not a trancelike state. Not at all.There is no loss of consciousness here. THe opposite is the case. topple The mind is then toppled from its place of power and Being reveals itself as your true nature. exertion ...when the mind is rendered "speechless." sometimes triggered by great beauty, extreme phyical exertion, or even great danger. aversion As long as I am my mind, I am those cravings, those needs, wants, attachments, and aversions, and apart from filled potential, a seed that has not yet sprouted.