This witnessing consciousness, this formless dimension of yourself, is the awareness in which your experience happens, yet it remains untouched by this experience at all times. It is similar to the background of white on which you are reading these words. This white background allows any and every word to exist within it, yet it is not confined to any of these words. Similarly, your awareness allows any and every form to exist within it, but it is not bound to any of these forms.
![What keeps [friends] together? Common history, some shared conquests, a delight in ideas and people and living. But they — Margaux Bergen, Navigating Life: Things I Wish My Mother Had Told Me](https://quotesread.com/uploads/quotes/0/07/47/74790.jpg "What keeps [friends] together? Common history, some shared conquests, a delight in ideas and people and living. But they will also be distinguished by their ability to listen to you. They will not be — Margaux Bergen, Navigating Life: Things I Wish My Mother Had Told Me")
