When the familiar is unfamiliar, have you awakened or lost your mind?   The etymology of the word "mind" is memory. Awakening is escaping from the mind's dark prison. Every thing is then unlike anything you remember, reflecting its unique light. Beyond awakening is enlightenment, when every thing is the Everything: oneness with the light. When you are confused or anxious by what would otherwise be familiar, you've lost your mind....

Why does every one, including me, describes me differently?   Who I am is many things. What I am is one thing: no thing....

Light reveals all things, but the absence of light reveals their presence.   We see not things, just light bouncing off things. Shadows, the absence of light, confirm their presence....

Life is a circle, like an ouroboros (a snake eating its own tale). It's continuous, with no beginning, no end. The circle is a whole, but seem like a hole with parts within and without. The within and without are the same, unless the within feels it's without....