Quotes About Awareness

What Einstein demonstrated in physics is equally true of all other aspects of the cosmos: all reality is relative. Each reality is true only within given limits. It is only one possible version of the way things are. There are always multiple versions of reality. To awaken from any single reality is to recognize its relative nature. Meditation is a device to do just that.

That's who we all are on this path, spiritual family and friends. It's just one big family. We're all relatives until we realize we're really all the same and there's only one of us—one loving awareness. May you be one in that love.

We have what we seek. It is there all the time, and if we give it time it will make itself known to us. —Thomas Merton

Knowledge all by itself, without deep wisdom, ends up becoming despair.

The epitome of the human realm is to be stuck in a huge traffic jam of discursive thought. —Chogyam Trungpa

If a pickpocket meets a saint, he sees only his pockets." Then he'd get up and leave. Or he'd write, "If you wear shoeleather, the whole earth is covered with leather." These were his ways of teaching me about how motivation affects perception.

Grace is at the nexus of love and awareness. There it's all open and it's all love.

Allow that you are at this moment not in the wrong place in your life. Consider the possibility that there have been no errors in the game. Just consider it. Consider that there is not an error, and everything that's come down on your plate is the way it is and here we are.

SEE GOD IN EVERYONE. IT IS DECEPTION TO TEACH BY INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES AND KARMA.3

I will treat all my negative reactions to this form of meditation as merely thought forms prompted by my ego to keep me from taking it seriously. I will suspend judgment, criticism, and doubt.

Instead of filling your mind with the daily news, fill it with stuff that helps you become more conscious, that liberates you. As you become more aware of what gets you to God and what doesn't, you will naturally let go of what doesn't. That's purification. You do it to get to God, not for the sake of being pure.

I found that the chief difficulty for most people was to realize that they had really heard 'new things': that is, things that they had never heard before. They kept translating what they heard into their habitual language. They had ceased to hope and believe there might be anything new."—Ouspensky

If you listen to your own inner voice, it will tell you where you are now, and which method will work best for you in your evolution towards the light.

To him who has had the experience no explanation is necessary, to him who has not, none is possible." And

Who in all his works sees God, in truth he goes to God.

Don't think about the past. Just be here now.

As long as one feels that he is the doer, he cannot escape from the wheel of births."—Buddha

We end up going through hell in meditation to quiet our mind, not because somebody says, "You ought to quiet your mind," but because our agitated mind is driving us up the wall, and it's keeping us from getting on with it.

To reconnect consciousness with the unconscious, to make consciousness symbolical is to reconnect words with silence; to let the silence in. If consciousness is all words and no silence, the unconscious remains unconscious."—N.O. Brown

The quieter you become the more you can hear.

Remember, we are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we're so deeply inner connected with one another. Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being love is the supreme creative act.

If you observe well, your own heart will answer."—de Lubicz

Ram asks Hanuman, "Who are you, Hanuman?" Hanuman answers, "When I don't know who I am, I serve you. When I know who I am, I am you.

to do anything with attachment. With desire . . . with anger..greed..lust . . . fear.. is only creating more karma, which is keeping you in the game . . . on the wheel of birth and death once you see through that. . . Desires can't help but fall away