Quotes About Clarity

If the price of peace were a lowering of your consciousness, and the price of stillness a lack of vitality and alertness, then they would not be worth having.

la mente es un instrumento magnífico si se usa correctamente. Utilizada en forma inadecuada, sin embargo, se vuelve muy destructiva. Para decirlo en forma más exacta, no es tanto que usted la utilice inadecuadamente, generalmente usted no la utiliza en absoluto. Ella lo utiliza a usted. Esa es la enfermedad. Usted cree que usted es su mente. Ese es el engaño. El instrumento se ha apoderado de usted.

Judgment is either to confuse someone's unconscious behavior with who they are or to project your own unconsciousness onto another person and mistake that for who they are. To relinquish judgment does not mean that you do not recognize dysfunction and unconsciousness when you see it. It means "being the knowing" rather than "being the reaction" and the judge.

I didn't realize yet that thinking without awareness is the main dilemma of human existence.

learn to disidentify from your mind.

Seen from a higher perspective, conditions are always positive. To be more precise: they are neither positive nor negative. They are as they are.

Most people don't inhabit a living reality, but a conceptualized one.

As you become more conscious of your present reality, you may suddenly get certain insights as to why your conditioning functions in those particular ways — for example, why your relationships follow certain patterns — and you may remember things that happened in the past or see them more clearly.

Mind isn't as serious as my mind makes it out to be.

hágase consciente del silencio que hay entre y bajo las palabras.

La disfunción se establece cuando usted busca su identidad en ella y la confunde con lo que usted es.

Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don't realize this because almost everybody is suffering from it, so it is considered normal.

Attention is primordial intelligence, consciousness itself.

In Zen, such a glimpse is called satori. Satori is a moment of Presence, a brief stepping out of the voice in your head, the thought processes, and their reflection in the body as emotion.

Unhappiness covers up your natural state of well-being and inner peace, the source of true happiness.

When you don't cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life that was lost a long time ago when humanity, instead of using thought, became possessed by thought. A depth returns to your life.

The awareness that is prior to thought, the space in which the thought—or the emotion or sense perception

Thinking is only a small aspect of consciousness. Thought cannot exist without consciousness, but consciousness does not need thought.

the "normal" state of mind of most human beings contains a strong element of what we might call dysfunction or even madness.

The moment you realize you are not present, you are present. Whenever you are able to observe your mind, you are no longer trapped in it.

Most ancient religions and spiritual traditions share the common insight—that our "normal" state of mind is marred by a fundamental defect.

St. Paul expressed this universal principle beautifully: "Everything is shown up by being exposed to the light, and whatever is exposed to the light itself becomes light.

leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

The cosmos is not chaotic. The very word chaos means order.