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animated with life as I noticed every leaf sway in the wind. If I paid closer attention to a tree or flower, I could have sworn I became aware of its recognition of me. I realised for a moment how strange I must have looked to people, I was on a usually busy path in the middle of the day, but I did not care. Surprisingly though, there was nobody else on the path that day, and I didn't bump into anyone in this entire experience as if the world was saying, 'this is just for you'. I had been seeking some sort of answers to life through my devoted meditation practices for months, and if I were to discover anything, it would be in this indescribable new state of consciousness that had spontaneously risen in me, where the world had seemed to expose its naked soul. This was beyond thought, beyond questioning, the intellectual mind had given up with tempting me for attention, and the logical part of me seemed to have entirely shut down. I carried on walking, absorbing this newfound state, and eventually found a bench in a small park. I sat and observed the tree leaves moving in the wind and watched all the squirrels and birds around me in nothing short of pure, ecstatic joy. I don't know how long I sat on that park bench, but time did not seem to have an influence in this state. All I know is many hours passed until I got up. My consciousness had moved to a dimension beyond time and space, which only existed in uninterrupted bliss with the clear realisation that the illusion of separateness was just a fallacy in our usual perception. I felt rather than saw things; and whatever I looked at, I felt an inner knowing that resonated throughout my entire Being. In this way, I could appreciate everything from a bird to a tree or even a single blade of grass; complemented with an underlying knowing that the consciousness I usually experience is no different from the awareness that is rooted in any other life forms’ essence. In ultimate reality, everything is one.