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Bob, he would point out that there is already that awareness of presence. Everyone is already clear and confident that they exist. There's no one who knows it any better than someone else. Everyone is equally clear that they are. There's no one who says, well, I kind of believe it, but I'm not convinced. No, everyone is convinced of their own existence. And this is the open secret and this is the final truth. So you already have it, but it's not even that. You already are it. You already are that presence and that awareness. And if the conviction is lacking, it is because there are thoughts, clouds of concepts and ideas that obscure that conviction.
And this is what we often look at. What obscures it?