Quotes About Clarity

No-mind is consciousness without thought. Only in that way is it possible to think creatively, because only in that way does thought have any real power. Thought alone, when it is no longer connected with the much vaster realm of consciousness, quickly becomes barren, insane, destructive.

So when watching television, the tendency is for you to fall below thought, not rise above it. Television has this in common with alcohol and certain other drugs. While it provides some relief from your mind, you again pay a high price: loss of consciousness. Like those drugs, it too has a strong addictive quality.

Ego implies unawareness. Awareness and ego cannot coexist.

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

The moment you see the dysfunction, it begins to dissolve. Some people laugh out loud when they see this. With

Even when the sky is heavily overcast, the sun hasn't disappeared. It's still there on the other side of the clouds.

Enlightenment

create a gap in the mind stream simply by directing the focus of your attention into the Now. Just become intensely conscious of the present moment. This is a deeply satisfying thing to do. In this way, you draw consciousness away from mind activity and create a gap of no-mind in which you are highly alert and aware but not thinking. This is the essence of meditation.

Your life situation may be full of problems — most life situations are — but find out if you have any problem at this moment. Not tomorrow or in ten minutes, but now. Do you have a problem now?

If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place

Na trenutak morate odložiti osobnu prtljagu problema, prošlosti i budu?nosti, kao i sve svoje znanje; ina?e ?ete vidjeti, ali ne?ete vidjeti, ?ut ?ete, ali ne?ete ?uti. Potrebna je vaša apsolutna prisutnost.

You have it already. You just can't feel it because your mind is making too much noise.

Probudi se. Ustani iz svoga uma. Budi prisutan.«

You can become aware of awareness as the background to all your sense perceptions, all your thinking. Becoming aware of awareness is the arising of inner stillness.

When you are fully conscious, drama does not come into your life anymore.

When you are full of problems, there is no room for anything new to enter, no room for a solution.

When you are fully conscious, you cease to be in conflict. "No one who is at one with himself can even conceive of conflict," states A Course in Miracles.

If the shutters are closed, the sunlight cannot come in.

Are you defending the truth? No, the truth, in any case, needs no defense.

Can human beings lose the density of their conditioned mind structures and become like crystals or precious stones, so to speak, transparent to the light of consciousness?

Después, la gente venía ocasionalmente a mí y me decía: "Quiero lo que usted tiene. ¿Puede dármelo o mostrarme cómo lograrlo?" Y yo decía: "Usted ya lo tiene. Sólo que no puede sentirlo porque su mente hace demasiado ruido".

Si no fuera por el alcohol, los tranquilizantes, los antidepresivos así como las drogas ilegales, que son todos consumidos en grandes cantidades, la demencia de la mente humana sería aún mucho más evidente de lo que lo es ya.

Only through awareness -- not through thinking -- can you differentiate between fact and opinion.

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free