I had forgotten that term Adya uses ‘affectionate awareness.” It is beautiful..

I often use the term awareness/presence for the very same reason--awareness so often has a feeling of being cool, detached and uninvolved. Which it is, but it’s so much more than that..It is intimate with everything, because it doesn’t stand back and watch--it watches from the inside, from the heart, from the core. That’s how it transforms everything it touches--because of the non-separation.