Quotes About Awareness

The identity around which the intellect functions is called ahankara.

Every opinion you have about anything can be a limiting identity.

Man needs entertainment simply to hide his madness. If he was perfectly sane, he would not need entertainment. He could just sit and watch this bamboo grow. He does not really need entertainment.

Don't think of this as your first step or last step. Just be here as a piece of life. That is the best way to be. You are not a young man; you are not an old man. You are just a piece of life.

Today, if you have one depressing thought in you, you will sit depressed. Why? The whole cosmos is going on phenomenally well today, but that does not matter. In your mind there is one thought – not too many, just one – that is bothering you, that will depress you and put you in the dumps.

Once your intellect gets identified with something, it gets chained to the identifications, and leaves you with a completely distorted experience of the world.

Believing means you have assumed something that you do not know; seeking means you have realized that you do not know.

The only thing you can do is to stop attaching importance to your own ways of thinking and feeling, your thought patterns, your emotions, and your opinions. Don't attach any importance to them. Then your limitations will become weaker and weaker and one day collapse.

Right now, you don't have the necessary faculties to know anything which is beyond the physical. If you recognize this, if you understand this, if you accept this absolutely, only then the other dimension opens up.

If you consciously get your body into different postures, you can elevate your consciousness.

I do not know" is the doorway—the only doorway—to seeking and knowing.

The only reason it has been inaccessible is that you are either busy or preoccupied with what is happening outside or far too engaged in your own psychological drama. It is just a lack of attention which has denied people the possibility of discovering what lies within. Turning

If you tell yourself you don't want to think a certain thought, that is precisely the first thing your mind will produce! That is the nature of the human mind.

The mind has no tools to enter the unconscious dimensions. Only if you are outside of the mind you can look at everything the way it is. When you are in it, there is no way to dissect yourself. You can catch hold of somebody else and dissect them, but you cannot dissect yourself. Even if you do, you cannot see everything. If you are using any faculty of the mind you cannot truly be aware of the nature of the mind.

Responsibility simply means your ability to respond. If you decide, "I am responsible," you will have the ability to respond. If you decide, "I am not responsible," you will not have the ability to respond. It is as simple as that. All it requires is for you to realize that you are responsible for all that you are and all that you are not, all that may happen to you and all that may not happen to you. This

Making yourself mentally open is very fundamental and very crucial, because this is something that is immediately in your hands. Your energy is not in your hands; you don't know how to open it. Even your physical body, you don't know how to keep it open, but your mind is something that you can consciously open.

There one exists not as an accumulation of memory and experience, not as an embodiment of love or compassion. There one simply exists in an intensity of inclusiveness.

Living totally does not mean just having a good time. It means experiencing anything that comes your way fully and intensely. The very process of life is the dissolution of karma. If you live every moment of your life totally, you dissolve an enormous volume of karma.

All we can ever experience happens from within us.

It does not matter how large a boundary we set, the moment you become conscious of it, the longing to break it is instinctive.

The essence of yoga, as we have said before, is just this—to arrive at that moment where there is a clear space between you and your mind.

neuroscientists say that if there is no past information about an object in your mind, you actually cannot see it. Suppose

Those who are immersed in their own psychological realities usually end up ignoring life around them. They seldom have the eyes to look at a flower, a sunset, a child, or a smiling face. And if it is an unsmiling face, they have no inclination to make it smile; they have no such small duties or minor cares in the world! They are too busy cracking the great puzzles of existence. But

but being on the spiritual path is not about making life pleasant. It's about seeing how to transcend both the pleasant and the unpleasant.