Quotes About Awareness

What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising discrimination, judgment, awareness.

To say "I love you" one must know first how to say the "I".

He is free to evade reality, he is free to unfocus his mind and stumble blindly down any road he pleases, but not free to avoid the abyss he refuses to see.

The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.

And suddenly I realised that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind of instinct, only I was in a different dimension.

And suddenly I realized that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind of instinct, only I was in a different dimension.

When the eye sees, it simply registers color and shape. All the rest takes place in the mind.

Life keeps on happening and doesn't need us to think about it. It's constantly arising and ceasing every single moment.

If we want real happiness, the only way it can arise is by letting go of the one who is unhappy. It is not a question of trying to hold on to the one who is happy. Rather, when the unhappy one is relinquished, nothing else remains except the happiness of tranquility and pure awareness.

Wisdom comes only from the understood experience and from nothing else.

When we bring the past to mind, it is then the present. When we bring the future to mind, that also becomes the present. So what we are doing is not only putting boundaries around three separate selves, but we are also putting boundaries around time and splitting it into three parts as well.

In another sutta, he speaks about the prerequisites for the practice of meditation. The first is to know our own dukkha, to recognize where it comes from, and how it operates within our own lives. The second is to gain confidence in the teaching, to realize that we can actually take this path. The third is to experience joy at the opportunity we have been given. Only when all three are present will meditation bear fruit.

If we sit down with the idea, "Oh dear, another meditation session, I suppose I must stick it out," we will never be able to do it. There must be a feeling of strength and uplift in the mind. Meditation will enhance both, but we have to bring them with us in the first place.

What we are looking for lies within us, and if we gave our time and energy to an interior search, we would come across it much faster, since that is the only place where it is to be found.

It is not that we kill or annihilate something that actually exists; rather, we get rid of a deluded mind-state.

Not unconsciousness, but a ceasing of perception and feeling is experienced.

Each insight should be nurtured and reinforced by bringing it up again and again and anchoring it in the mind. Then we will have access to it and be able to use it at all times.

To be in the present is actually to be in eternity.

Once we know of atrocities we cannot remain silent, and knowledge inevitably leads to an urge to protect the innocent.

The more you give of yourself, the more you find of yourself.

Bir insan?n yaÅŸamakta olduÄŸunu salt kendisinin bilmesi yetmez, insan tek ba??na deÄŸil ki. Ä°nsan?n varolduÄŸunu baÅŸka insanlar?n da bilmesi gerekir. Ne denli insan bilirse o denli daha çok vard?r.

Bu vicdan azab? denilen ÅŸeyi hiçkimse kendisi hat?rlam?yor. Herkes, baÅŸkalar?n?n çekmeleri gereken vicdan azab?n? biliyor.

Your body lives in the past, your mind in the future. They come together in the present when you practise Yoga.

Meditation is a balancing act between attention and relaxation.