There is a moment when thought stops turning upon itself and begins to dissolve into silence. It is the moment when the mind ceases to seek meaning through comparison and returns to the source of perception itself. This diagram captures that shift — from living identified with the extended self to living from the centre.
When we live through the extended self, the mind is constantly translating experience into concepts. It divides the field of reality into the objective and the subjective — the thinker and the thought, the observer and the observed. This dualistic movement keeps the brain active in an endless loop of reasoning, where every conclusion becomes the premise for a new question. The beginning becomes the ending, and the ending is once again the beginning. Thought continues to orbit itself, always chasing clarity, never touching stillness.
In this state, we live through mental constructs — reflections of reality rather than reality itself. The mind believes that understanding will end the search, but understanding itself becomes another construct. The circle never closes because the self remains the reference point of all meaning.
Living from the centre ends this cycle. Here, awareness is no longer divided into subject and object. It is not the observer looking at life — it is life, perceiving from within. In this state, the thinking mind relaxes into coherence. The end of thought does not bring confusion but order — a natural alignment between the brain, mind, and the intelligence of the whole. There is no conflict, no resistance, no need for another beginning.
To live from the centre is to perceive directly, without mediation. The mind is no longer a commentator but a silent participant in creation. The dual motion of becoming collapses into being, and the loop of ‘ending as beginning’ naturally ceases. What unfolds from the centre has no opposite, no return. It is timeless awareness in motion — the universe perceiving itself through you.
The beginning ceases when the centre becomes the only movement of being.
