EXISTENCE

Existence exists-and the act of grasping that statement implies two corollary axioms: that something exists which one perceives and that one exists possessing consciousness, consciousness being the faculty of perceiving that which exists. If nothing exists, there can be no consciousness: a consciousness with nothing to be conscious of is a contradiction in terms. A consciousness conscious of nothing but itself is a contradiction in terms: before it could identify with itself as consciousness, it had to be conscious of something. If that which you claim to perceive does not exist, what you possess is not consciousness. Whatever the degree of your knowledge, these two- existence and consciousness- are axioms you cannot escape, they are the irreducible primaries implied in any action you undertake and in its sum. In the end the axioms remain the same: that it exists and that you know it... Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification.