We are not contemplative societies in The West. Now that doesn’t mean we don’t wonder about consciousness and self awareness, just that the vast majority of us don’t spend very much time or disciplined mental effort in trying to make such musings real. We believe much, we actually experience little in regard to our own personal awareness and/or consciousness. And we are strongly trending in the opposite direction of contemplation with our “distraction from distraction by distraction” electronic obsessions. And I’m not here to gripe on and on about this actually so much as to beseech us to integrate it healthily, even though realistically this translates into more units of time and focus on contemplation than currently there is on distraction.

Integrate. Continuous integration, i.e. integrating, and contemplation of the aspects of self awareness/consciousness are necessary mental component parts of a life well and happily lived. Therefore let us do these along with all of the other things of Life and Living….and have the fuller life available to us.