Conscious sensation

 

The first sign of obedience to something greater is conscious sensation. And I can have a conscious sensation only if I am voluntarily passive. When I feel my insufficiency, when I feel the lack, I see the need for change and suffer a hunger, a need to be nourished. My thought is called toward a deep sensation, which awakens a feeling.

 

But this feeling is weak, and I am afraid. I do not yet believe it, and the feeling disappears. The ego reasserts itself and everything disperses. I need to see that to begin again requires humility, sincerity. I must look again for a deep sensation.

 

I obey either the current that brings me force or the one that takes it away. If the attention is not placed consciously on something, it must be taken. This is a law from which I cannot escape. It is no longer enough that two energies are turned toward each other. There must be a movement toward one another that is active enough to provoke a new inner movement that calls the feeling.

 

From The Reality of Being, P. 220

 

We can know God only through sensation. Pure sensation is the name of God—pure, burning sensation.

 

From The Reality of Being, P. 226