The degree to which you are alive is always in proportion to the awareness you have. Awareness means being awake and present in the moment.

Once we can understand this quality, we hold the key to self-mastery in every area of our lives. Once you have gained awareness of your body, mind, and emotions, these three connect into a single phenomenon.

And then supreme awareness emerges - that which makes a person awakened. One gains awareness of their own awareness. And only within that awakening does one come to know what bliss is.

The body knows pleasure, the mind knows happiness, the heart knows joy, and the fourth knows bliss. Bliss is the goal, and awareness is the path that leads to bliss.

[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]