“Life is a mirror” is the most misunderstood statement with a forehead-slapping punchline that bursts wide open after Awakening.

In the dreamstate, you’ll look at someone and say, “he’s an asshole!” and your law-of-attraction buddies will remind you that you can only see in others what you, yourself are.

You must be an asshole, then. Somehow, somewhere. You’re sure of it. You simply cannot see something in someone else that you aren’t. So you’ll start the inner work necessary to stop being an asshole.

Fifteen, twenty, thirty years later you’ll realize that got you nowhere. Then, one day, you’ll realize what it really means to see in others only what you are. The realization only comes with a fundamental shift in perspective – not as an experience or piece of knowledge.

In the dreamstate, you define yourself by your voluntary, conscious behavior. Awake, who you are is unlimited, and there is no other. As a result, the reflection ceases to exist and truth emerges.

Reflections are dreamstate interpretations of a deeper truth that can’t be comprehended as anything else until that fundamental shift occurs.

There are no reflections outside of the dreamstate because there’s nothing that isn’t you.

A reflection requires self and other; something only possible in the dreamstate.

That the cucumbers in your garden are as much the sun as the sun itself becomes obvious.