The body appears in your mind, your mind is the content of your consciousness; you are the motionless witness of the river of consciousness which changes eternally without changing you in any way. Your own changelessness is so obvious that you do not notice it. Have a good look at yourself and all these misapprehensions and misconceptions will dissolve. Just as all the little watery lives are in water and cannot be without water, so all the universe is in you and cannot be without you.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
This notion that the body emerges within the mind flips the usual story we tell ourselves, where we imagine a solid self navigating a solid world. Instead, everything, the flesh, the thoughts, the fleeting joys and pains, swirls as a current within the vastness of consciousness, while you remain untouched, a still point amid the flow.
