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To know objective experience awareness assumes the form of mind, but to know itself awareness need not assume the form of mind; it need only remain in itself. This self-resting in and as awareness is the essence of meditation or prayer. It is the non-activity in which awareness knows its own being. A mind that is accustomed to directing its attention exclusively towards objective experience will often object to this suggestion, saying that it does not know where to find awareness or in what direction to look. For such a mind the presence of awareness may first be accessed as the experience of simply being aware, the feeling of being or the knowledge ‘I am’. Later on, the mind will recognise that all there is to experience is the knowing of it, and therefore the only substance that awareness ever truly knows or comes in contact with is itself.