Quotes About Awareness

That is how you bring about change in yourself. Not by condemnation, not by calling yourself names, but by understanding what's going on. Not by calling yourself a dirty old sinner.

But are you listening for what will confirm what you already think? Or are you listening in order to discover something new?

The spiritual quest is a journey without distance. You travel from where you are right now to where you have always been. From ignorance to recognition, for all you do is see for the first time what you have always been looking at. Who ever heard of a path that brings you to yourself or a method that makes you what you have always been? Spirituality, after all, is only a matter of becoming what you really are.

The highest knowledge of God is to know God as unknowable. There is far too much God talk; the world is sick of it. There is too little awareness, too little love, too little happiness, but let's not use those words either. There's too little dropping of illusions, dropping of errors, dropping of attachments and cruelty, too little awareness. That's what the world is suffering from, not from a lack of religion.

All revelations, however divine, are never any more than a finger pointing to the moon. As we say in the East, "When the sage points to the moon, all the idiot sees is the finger.

Has it ever struck you that you have been programmed by society to be unhappy, and so, no matter what you do to become happy, you are bound to fail? Most people are so brainwashed that they do not even realize how unhappy they are. It's only when they make contact with joy that they understand how depressed they have been.

Most people don't live aware lives. They live mechanical lives, mechanical thoughts—generally somebody else's—mechanical emotions, mechanical actions, mechanical reactions. As you begin to understand this, you stop making demands on yourself, you stop having expectations of yourself, you stop pushing yourself, and you begin to understand yourself.

The moment you say so-and-so is wise or is cruel or defensive or loving or whatever, you have hardened your perception and become prejudiced and ceased to perceive this person moment by moment, somewhat like a pilot who operates today with last week's weather report.

When your illusions clash with reality, when your falsehoods clash with truth, then you have suffering. Otherwise there is no suffering.

If you aren't consciously aware, you're vulnerable to either being brainwashed or being influenced by forces within you that you have no awareness of at all.

Though everything is a mess, all is well. Strange paradox, to be sure. But, tragically, most people never get to see that all is well because they are asleep. They are having a nightmare.

To acquire happiness you don't have to do anything, because happiness cannot be acquired. Does anybody know why? Because we have it already.

To be in the state called love you must be sensitive to the uniqueness and beauty of every single thing and person around you.

We see things and people not as they are, but as we are.

hay personas que, a pesar de encontrarse en las mismísimas condiciones en que tú te encuentras ahora, no sienten la menor inseguridad. Esas personas existen, y seguramente conoces a alguna. Consiguientemente, el problema no depende de la realidad exterior a ti, sino de ti mismo, de tu «programación».

Si hay algo que pueda hacer ahora con respecto a mi futuro, lo haré. Fuera de eso, me limitaré a dejarle que siga su curso y me dedicaré a disfrutar del momento presente, porque la experiencia me ha enseñado que sólo puedo hacer frente a las cosas cuando éstas se presentan, no antes de que ocurran, y que el presente me proporciona siempre los recursos y la energía necesarios para afrontarlas».

??c Jesus trò chuy?n vá»›i nh?ng ng??i cùng Ä'inh, Ä'ói nghèo v? nh?ng l? khôn ngoan trong ??i th??ng. Ngài báo Tin M?ng cho h?: l? khôn ngoan ?y chính là dành cho các b?n. NhÆ°ng ai l?ng nghe? Ch?ng ai thèm ?? ý, h? thích ng? mê hÆ¡n.

H?nh phúc là má»™t tình tr?ng gá»™i s?ch ?o t??ng, là sá»± d?t b? ?o t??ng.

?ào th?i, Ä'ào th?i g?n nhÆ° m?i th? b?n Ä'ã h?c. Nhi?t tình Ä'ào th?i và nhi?t tình l?ng nghe.

Không có góc nhìn cuá»™c s?ng nào t?t hÆ¡n là nhìn nó t? cái ch?t.

Ng??i ta mu?n bi?t má»™t ng??i th?c t?nh s? nhÆ° th? nào, nhÆ°ng b?n ch? bi?t Ä'i?u Ä'ó má»™t khi b?n th?c t?nh.

Tá»™t cùng c?a tri th?c nhân lo?i v? Thiên Chúa: bi?t r?ng mình không bi?t. Bi k?ch Ä'au thÆ°Æ¡ng c?a chúng ta n?m ? chá»— chúng ta bi?t nhi?u quá. Chúng ta nghÄ© r?ng mình bi?t, Ä'ó là bi k?ch; và do Ä'ó ch?ng bao gi? khám phá ra.

Ng??i ta Ä'ã nuôi mình s?ng b?ng nh?ng ngôn t? rá»—ng tu?ch Ä'úng hÆ¡n là s?ng vá»›i thá»±c t?i.

Bi?t bao ng??i Ä'ã b? c? ??i không ph?i ?? ?n thá»±c ph?m mà là ?n thá»±c Ä'Æ¡n! Má»™t thá»±c Ä'Æ¡n ch? là sá»± ch? d?n v? má»™t cái gì Ä'ang có s?n. B?n hãy ?n cho ???c món bít t?t, ??ng ?n má»› danh t?.