Expanded Glossary

Conflict

Conflict is an attribute of the individual, not the human being. In your real nature—which is oneness—no conflict is possible. Effort, competition, and aggression only concern the person.

“Ask yourself just how enslaved you are to your opinions and habits which are the source of perpetual conflict. Observe how your mind works, look at how it functions, look without preconceived ideas.”
— Jean Klein, I AM

When we acknowledge oneness—hold it in the stillness of the moment of our awareness—it is possible to see that, as the illusion of being an individual, we are nothing more than a revolving door of habitual thinking. We build walls of opinions around ourselves and imprison ourselves within our unconsciously created walls. We act out the role of a competitor and practice aggression. This competition and aggression, regardless of its intention, carries us away from our true Self.

The act of self observation, when carried out while Self remembering—remembering our oneness—dissolves the illusion of separation and frees us from unnecessary internal and external conflict born in our mistaken opinions.

Aim

“There is no aim. God is perfection and beyond improvement. If we want to talk in terms of an aim, the world and objects are there only to reveal the ultimate subject, ‘I AM.’”
— Jean Klein

The “I AM” that Klein speaks of is beyond space and time. It is empty of thought, memory, and identity. In the open, timeless emptiness of unfiltered awareness, the True Self is recognized.

The God Klein speaks of is Consciousness. Any thought that perceives God as separate from non-dual reality is illusion. Any prayer offered to a separate God is likened to worshiping the golden idol Moses warned of. Prayers born in misunderstanding our non-dual reality—and our inclusion as being One with God—carry us away from our True Self.

Meditate. Measure. Recognize: we are the I AM.