Observations touching on awareness…
Original DDE™ art: “As Eye See It” by: rob kistner © 1/8/26
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look for what is hidden
listen for what is silent
embrace the revelation
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Awareness arrives before language, a hush that listens.
Breath becomes our first teacher, entering, leaving, never certain.
Consciousness curves around moments, seeing at first dimly.
Doubt flickers, but even doubt is noticed—and considered.
Each sensation announces itself, then bows away.
Form appears solid until probing attention pierces it.
Gaze inward, and the watcher quietly dissolves.
Hesitance needs name things, but awareness feels them first.
I am not the thought, I am the space it crosses to arrive.
Judgment loosens when seeing replaces deciding.
Knowing hums beneath belief, steady and wordless.
Light does not argue with shadow, it reveals.
Memory drifts through like weather, noticed, then not.
Now is not small—it holds everything.
Observer and observed blur at the edges.
Presence asks nothing, yet offers all.
Quiet widens until even silence is heard.
Reaction slows, becoming response, becoming choice.
Self is seen as expandable, not as static.
Time is forgotten when attention deepens.
Understanding blooms without explanation.
Vision clears when control fades.
What remains is simple, awake, sufficient.
X marks no end—only a crossing point.
Yielding reveals a deeper strength.
Zero distance remains between awareness and being.
Original DDE™ art: “I To Eye” by: rob kistner © 1/8/26
rob kistner © 1/8/26