Quotes About Awareness

Hardly anyone has been told the following truth: In order to be genuinely happy there is one and only one thing you need to do: get deprogrammed, get rid of those attachments.

You want to hope for something better than what you have right now, don't you? Otherwise you wouldn't be hoping. But then, you forget that you have it all right now anyway, and you don't know it. Why not concentrate on the now instead of hoping for better times in the future? Why not understand the now instead of forgetting it and hoping for the future? Isn't the future just another trap?

To fight evil with activity is like fighting darkness with one's hands. So what you need is light, not fit.

Life is a banquet. And the tragedy is that most people are starving to death.

All suffering is caused by my identifying myself with something, whether that something is within me or outside of me.

What you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you.

Do you know one sign that you've woken up? It's when you are asking yourself, "Am I crazy, or are all of them crazy?

Because agreement and disagreement have to do with words and concepts and theories. They don't have anything to do with truth. Truth is never expressed in words. Truth is sighted suddenly, as a result of a certain attitude.

Before enlightenment, I used to be depressed: after enlightenment, I continue to be depressed." But there's a difference: I don't identify with it anymore.

The content of your awareness is less important than the quality of the awareness

if you just suppress your desire, and you attempt to renounce the object of your desire, you are likely to be tied to it.

What we need is not just action that will bring about change but sight that will bring about love.

I don't identify with the feeling. "I" is not that feeling. "I" am not lonely, "I" am not depressed, "I" am not disappointed. Disappointment is there, one watches it. You'd be amazed how quickly it glides away. Anything you're aware of keeps changing; clouds keep moving. As you do this, you also get all kinds of insights into why clouds were coming in the first place.

Your attitude should be: "I want to be aware, I want to be in touch with whatever is and let whatever happens happen; if I'm awake, fine, and if I'm asleep, fine.

Let the story do its work in you, and when it is done then you won't need the story anymore.

You're never so ready to forget yourself as when you are happy.

Is there anything I can do to make myself enlightened? As little as you can do to make the sun rise in the morning. Then of what use are the spiritual exercises you prescribe? To make sure you are not asleep when the sun begins to rise.

If there is anything I can do about the future, right now, I shall do it. Then I'm going to just leave it alone and settle down to enjoy the present moment, because all the experience of my life has shown me that I can only cope with things when they are present, not before they occur. And that the present always gives me the resources and the energy I need to deal with them.

Who decides what will finally make its way to your conscious mind from all the material that is pouring in from the world? Three decisive filters: first your attachments, second your beliefs and third your fears.

That's what spirituality is all about, you know: unlearning. Unlearning all the rubbish they taught you.

It is a sobering thought that the finest act of love you can perform is not an act of service but an act of contemplation, of seeing.

The fact is that you're surrounded by God and you don't see God, because you "know" about God. The final barrier to the vision of God is your God concept.

It is enough for you to be watchful and awake. For in this state your eyes will see the Savior.

Suffering is a sign that you're out of touch with the truth. Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth, that you might understand that there's falsehood somewhere, just as physical pain is given to you so you will understand that there is disease or illness somewhere.