Measure by consciousness

Measure by consciousness
And find spiritual friends
Testing what’s really real
Going beyond surfaces
Into the depth of realities
One to another so different
While sharing the essence
The very present moment
Elusive common fulcrum
The silence and sound
All the light and love
Touch opening hearts
And soften those closed
Decelerate perceptions
Dissolve all the movies
In one’s head and mind
Experience beyond talk
The silence in full volume
Turned way up to be so soft
Contributing consciousness
Space for breathing in and out
And the moment in between
Not merely for acceptance
But embracing the love
Overflowing gratitude
As God realizes itself
And all have part in it
Conscious of the divine
And the spirit of soul.

“Consciousness” — the only state worth considering

What is consciousness, to measure by?

Consciousness, at its simplest, is awareness of internal and external existence. However, its nature has led to millennia of analyses, explanations and debate by philosophers, theologians, and all of science. Opinions differ about what exactly needs to be studied or even considered consciousness. In some explanations, it is synonymous with the mind, and at other times, an aspect of mind. In the past, it was one’s “inner life”, the world of introspection, of private thought, imagination and volition. Today, it often includes any kind of cognition, experience, feeling or perception. It may be awareness, awareness of awareness, or self-awareness either continuously changing or not the disparate range of research, notions and speculations raises a curiosity about whether the right questions are being asked.

Examples of the range of descriptions, definitions or explanations are: ordered distinction between self and environment, simple wakefulness, one’s sense of selfhood or soul explored by “looking within”; being a metaphorical “stream” of contents, or being a mental state, mental event or mental process of the brain.

… in Latin … the phrase conscius sibi … translates literally as “knowing with oneself”, or in other words “sharing knowledge with oneself about something”. This phrase has the figurative sense of “knowing that one knows”, which is something like the modern English word “conscious”.

— From Wikipedia in English on consciousness

The fire of consciousness reaches up high