Quotes About Awareness

It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

Whoever knows himself knows God.

Nothing has saddened me so much in life as the hardness of heart of educated people.

The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of the state of your mind.

Each soul in entering the material experience does so for those purposes of advancement towards that awareness of being fully conscious of the oneness with the Creative Forces.

Light must come from inside. You cannot ask the darkness to leave; you must turn on the light.

Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there - buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day

You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.

Only those who are asleep make no mistakes.

It is only by grounding our awareness in the living sensation of our bodies that the 'I Am,' our real presence, can awaken.

Remember God more often than you breathe.

We lose our souls if we lose the experience of the forest, the butterflies, the song of the birds, if we can't see the stars at night.

Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.

The day of my spiritual awakening was the day I saw and knew I saw all things in God and God in all things.

The mind of an enlightened human being is flexible and adaptable. The mind of the ignorant person is conditioned and fixed.

The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.

It is only when we realize that life is taking us nowhere that it begins to have meaning.

Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.

True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found.

All suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction.

Mind is madness. Only when you go beyond the mind, there will be meditation.

Never underestimate your power to change yourself; never overestimate your power to change others.

Zen... does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.