Suffering does not belong to awareness; it belongs only to the illusory separate self.

When a thought or feeling appears and we say, ‘This is my sadness,’ we have already misidentified awareness as a person who owns an experience.

But awareness itself is free of suffering – it is like the sky that remains untouched by the storm clouds passing through it.

To abide as awareness is to be free of suffering, not because suffering is denied, but because it is no longer claimed as ‘mine‘

Rupert Spira, Being Aware of Being Aware