Experiencing You in Awareness

Experiencing You in Awareness

I’ve been reflecting on something Rodney Smith wrote about interconnection.
There’s a subtle but powerful shift that happens when we move from “you are aware” to “you are in awareness.”

One perspective keeps the self in the center:
I am meditating.
I am watching my thoughts.
I am becoming calm.

The other dissolves that center.
You’re not doing awareness.
You’re being experienced within it.

This shift isn’t always dramatic.
Sometimes it’s quiet, like background light illuminating the whole field.
But when it’s seen, something fundamental softens.

The need to be someone drops.
There’s no one behind the eyes, orchestrating the moment.

Just experience.
Just awareness.
And that is where interconnectedness lives—not as a concept, but as a felt reality.