Quotes About Awareness

Two tasks at the beginning of your life: to narrow your orbit more and more, and ever and again to check whether you are not in hiding somewhere outside your orbit.

It is necessary to learn how to do a systems analysis of your life, to learn about the effects of places, people, jobs. There are millions of things that go into the study of meditation.

There is a world of deaf, dumb and blind people out there, who are shuffling through their lives, not knowing how wonderful life can be. They have their moments, but they are very unconscious.

Power is the thing that holds a band of perception together, and a band of perception is life for those who perceive in that band. If the band of perception were to go away, they would not exist.

In deep meditation, all of the things that we call life, all of the combinations of experiences, fall away.

If your life is based around your being comfortable, you're not very comfortable. You suffer quite a bit - becuase in the realm of the senses there is not only pleasure, but there is pain.

Life is a series of dreams, a series of interlocking awarenesses. I don't necessarily believe in linear time. Everything happens all at once forever.

Zen is about breaking out of your ideas and experiencing life and not ideas.

In Zen we classify ten thousand different states of mind, different ways of seeing life. There is something beyond the ten thousand states of mind that we call nirvana.

Zen is meditation, the actual experience of life directly, immediately with no buffers.

Inner seeing has nothing to do with physical vision; it's the perception of life directly.

If you are psychic you will become much more aware of the beauty of life. If you are psychic, when you look at a rose, you will see and feel the essence of the rose.

Psychic awareness leads to a true perception not only of events, but just of life itself. It is its own raison d'etre.

If you want to become enlightened, you've got to get all the bullshit out of your life. You have to clear up your mind completely.

Find a teacher of Tantric Zen and study with them because it is transference of awareness, a sharing of the perception of the beauty of life.

There is no such thing as spiritual achievement; it is simply an awareness intrinsic to all of life.

Simplify your life and your mind. Think more of infinity and less of yourself.

Do not feel that you are destined to enlightenment in this life. You have no idea. This is an illusion of selfhood. It's gross ignorance and egotism.

You can live in the world and have all the myriad experiences that life has to offer and yoke your awareness field to the planes of light, and eventually to nirvana itself.

You can live in the world and have friends, family and possessions. But don't take them all too seriously. Death removes everything. Feel death is every moment, as life is every moment.

Many aspects of life cannot be explained through logic or reason. The reasoning part of the mind simply doesn't have the capacity to understand the many whys and how's of being and non-being.

Mysticism cuts through bullshit, and it takes you right there to the experience. Everything in your life is eventually set up as a pragmatic energy flow into the light.

There is no future and there is no past, there never has been, there never will be. You just think there is. It's not life that moves; it's awareness.

A person with power controls their life and their destiny. They have a mastery. Their moments are aware moments in this world, never wasted.