What's Awareness?

You have what we might call an awareness muscle in your mind. And this muscle is flexed every time that you are being consistently aware. So even if you're a very smart person, you know, very smart people can still have very bad behaviors because smarts don't count for very much here. If you want to eliminate the deep, underlying neurotic needs that you have, which are the sources of these unwonted behaviors, the only way to do that is by shining and penetrating those with the light of your awareness.