Quotes About Awareness

I gave her just one guidance: "Never look up to anyone; never look down on anyone." If people practiced this simple sadhana, they would see everything just the way it is. If you look up to someone, you will exaggerate their positive qualities; if you look down on someone, you will exaggerate their negative qualities. But if you simply look—not for something, but just look—you will see things just as they are.

An idiot can sit here quietly. A mystic can sit here quietly.

Inaction is also karma.

You may think right now that you are going to your office, home, or football match, but as far as your body is concerned, it is going, moment by moment, straight toward the grave.

It is important to see that whatever seems determined in your life has been determined by you unconsciously.

Whether you fly or choose to remain in the limitations of the cage—let that be a conscious choice.

Your aliveness is going down because you are committing suicide in installments.

There is only one crime against life: to make believe that you are something other than life.

I have never touched any substance, but if you look into my eyes you will see that I am always stoned. I am totally drunk and fully aware. This is one of the pleasures that the science of yoga offers.

Have you come into this world to experience life or to think about it? Your mental process is a very small happening compared to the life process, but right now it has become far more important.

the more profound your understanding of the human mechanism is, the more magical your life will be.

The way out is a very simple change in direction. You just need to see that the source and basis of your experience is within you. Human experience may be stimulated or catalyzed by external situations, but the source is within. Pain or pleasure, joy or misery, agony or ecstasy, happens only inside you. Human folly is that people are always trying to extract joy from the outside. You may use the outside as a stimulus or trigger, but the real thing always comes from within. Right

A day is but a piece of time That lets us live and die. …This day let us live and Live totally. —SADHGURU

Responsibility is about being. That's the way life is—not an independent, self-contained bubble but a moment-to- moment dialogue with the universe.

death is a fiction created by ignorant people. Death is the creation of the unaware, because if you are aware, it is life, life and life alone—moving from one dimension of Existence to another.

Death is the creation of the unaware, because

The present is the only place that you can be. If you live, you live in this moment. If you die, you die in this moment. This moment is eternity.

The crux of the matter is that you don't yet know who you are. Who you are is not the sum total of accumulations you have made. Everything that you currently know as "myself" is just an accumulation.

If you go outward, it is an endless journey. If you turn inward, it is just one moment.

Remain still. Allow your attention to slowly grow still as well. Do this for five to seven minutes a day. You will notice that your breath will slow down.

Unless you do the right things, the right things will not happen to you. Principles and philosophies are only of social consequence. It is time to wake up to yourself as an existential being, a living being, rather than a psychological case. Then your destiny will be your own. One hundred percent your own.

Meditation is not about going somewhere – it is falling back into yourself.

With a little awareness, every human being can begin to transform habit into choice, compulsion into consciousness.

Whenever the need to know any dimension of life presented itself, at that moment, the answers were always there within me. Life has always been like that for me.