Life as is as a personality trait

 "The identity is inherent in reality and never fades. But your identity is neither the transient personality, nor the karma-bound individuality. It is what remains when all self-identification is given up as false—pure Consciousness, the sense of being all there is, or could be. Consciousness is always pure. At all times, it remains the same. To know it as it is, is realization and timeless peace."  Nisargadatta Maharaj

 

We carry the karma of the past like a second skin, and the personality that was imprinted on us by memory, ancestors, parents, society, and humanity as a whole, as a first. Yet, in the here and now who we perceive we are, and what we feel we have to do, is a jumping board to leaving all of this behind. Consciousness reigns in the here and now and no karma and conditioning can take this birthright away from us. How to connect? Be one with the silence before thought, feeling and action.