Awareness

I think it is important for all of us to realize a few things because I keep seeing simple misunderstandings of something very important and basic:

• You are awareness itself - not any manifestation within awareness (i.e., the body, sensations, states of consciousness, feelings, thoughts, etc.).
• As you are awareness itself you are never NOT aware - apparent lapses in awareness are themselves only acknowledgeable WITHIN awareness (you must be aware of a lapse in awareness to say that it happened). Therefore, unawareness is simply impossible and doesn't exist (it cannot by its very nature).
• Death, deep sleep, anesthesia, "ego death" etc. are all still experiences WITHIN awareness and are not cessations of awareness itself.