Quotes About Awareness

the process of consciousness itself relies on images.

The process of developing psychic senses is fairly independent of the evolution of the soul.

Modern society has generally 'lost the plot'. Slavishly following its false gods and idols makes no sense in a spiritually aware life.

I know little about the women of my own race...

The only antidote to being duped is a thorough knowledge of and passion for Truth.

I think you're failing to focus on the big picture." "It's only when one focuses on the small picture," James said, "that the full horror of this scheme becomes apparent.

Early One Morning takes time and, I mean, all things like that I felt were very important.

You are so proud of your intelligence," said the master. "You are like a like a condemned man, proud of the vastness of his prison cell.

The world is right because I feel good. p. 83, Awareness, copyright 1990

A thought is a screen, not a mirror; that is why you live in a thought envelope, untouched by Reality.

You're never so centered on yourself as when you're depressed.

There are two ways to wash dishes: One is to wash them in order to make them clean; the other is to wash them in order to wash them.

Put this program into action, a thousand times: (a) identify the negative feelings in you; (b) understand that they are in you, not in the world, not in external reality; (c) do not see them as an essential part of "I"; these things come and go; (d) understand that when you change, everything changes.

Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality.

SERENITY "Are there ways for gauging one's spiritual strength?" "Many." "Give us one." "Find out how often you become disturbed in the course of a single day.

How does one cope with evil? Not by fighting it but by understanding it. In understanding, it disappears. How does one cope with darkness? Not with one's fist. You don't chase darkness out of the room with a broom, you turn on a light. The more you fight darkness, the more real it becomes to you, and the more you exhaust yourself. But when you turn on the light of awareness, it melts.

To know reality you have to know beyond knowing.

Happiness is a state of nonillusion, of dropping the illusion.

Has it ever occurred to you that you can only love when you are alone? What does it mean to love? It means to see a person, a thing, a situation, as it really is and not as you imagine it to be, and to give it the response it deserves. You cannot love what you do not even see.

What you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you. You are always a slave to what you're not aware of. When you're aware of it, you're free from it. It's there, but you're not affected by it. You're not controlled by it; you're not enslaved by it. That's the difference.

See how you attempt to bring about change—both in yourself and in others—through the use of punishment and reward, through discipline and control, through sermonizing and guilt, through greed and pride, ambition and vanity, rather than through loving acceptance and patience, painstaking understanding and vigilant awareness.

True tolerance only arises from a keen awareness of the abysmal ignorance of everyone as far as truth is concerned.

Most people end up being conformists; they adapt to prison life. A few become reformers; they fight for better lighting, better ventilation. Hardly anyone becomes a rebel, a revolutionary who breaks down the prison walls. You can only be a revolutionary when you see the prison walls in the first place.

Love springs from awareness. It is only inasmuch as you see someone as he or she really is here and now, and not as they are in your memory or your desire or in your imagination or projection, that you can truly love them. Otherwise, it is not the person that you love but the idea that you have formed of this person, or this person as the object of your desire, not as he or she is in themselves.