Quotes About Awareness

I tell lies somewhere else, but not here, not in front of myself.

Sometimes I thought I would die and other times wished I had."11 Although the FDA held a hearing on the matter, it did not impose any legal control on benzodiazepines similar to what had been placed on amphetamines and barbiturates, and so the public's belief that the drugs were relatively nonaddictive and harmless survived until 1975, when the U.S. Justice Department demanded that they be classified as schedule IV drugs

In the United States, people with depression, bipolar, and schizophrenia are losing twelve to twenty years in life expectancy compared to people not in the mental health system.

Completely give up even concentration, and hold nothing in your mind: you are verily the Self, and therefore free.

We have regarded as real what is unreal. We have to give up this attitude.

Find the Source of this false I: then it will disappear.

There can be no [ego] desire if there is no object. The state of no-desire is enlightenment.

It is thoughts that make all the difference between the stillness of sleep and the turmoil upon waking.

The sage is not unconscious; he is fully aware of the Self.

the experience of the undivided reality".

The one who has known for certain that all this world is the product of illusion, and that nothing exists, naturally enjoys peace.

One suffers because of the idea that the body is "I". Misery

the "I" is first created, and then the world.

Only grief is possible when one thinks of oneself as a body.

So the body which did not exist in sleep, "exists" now in "waking.

hereafter, is see that you do not identify your self with them.

If this tendency to identify itself with objects is destroyed, the ego merges into its Source.

For those in the Self, there is no [separate] seeing—only being.

In this Gospel, Jesus reminds seekers, "It will not come by waiting for it." He said to them, "What you look forward to has already come, but you do not recognize it.

Once the I-thought has completely died, there is not even the thought of "I am Self." [There is only Be-ing.]

When there is no one to "experience," where is there a question of an I? Only that which Is remains.

The "mind" is nothing but "thoughts"; and behind every thought, there is the primary thought, which is the I-thought.

he does not pursue activities with the notion that he is the doer;

There are no "others": the Self is the one and only reality.