Quotes About Awareness

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

In order to enjoy life one must be a master of life—for to be a slave to its inconsistencies can only mean torment; and in order to enjoy the senses one must be master of them. To dominate the actual world you must, like Archimedes, base your fulcrum somewhere beyond.

The moment we fear anything we open the door for the entrance of the actualization of the very thing we fear.

If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be, you can't see how it is.

We're fascinated by the words--but where we meet is in the silence behind them.

The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.

Be here now.

As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is.

What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution.

The most important aspect of love is not in giving or the receiving: it's in the being. When I need love from others, or need to give love to others, I'm caught in an unstable situation. Being in love, rather than giving or taking love, is the only thing that provides stability. Being in love means seeing the Beloved all around me.

Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.

Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.

We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are so deeply interconnected with one another.

A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there's work to be done.

The next message you need is always right where you are.

If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

Learn to watch your drama unfold while at the same time knowing you are more than your drama.

Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.

The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.

Meditation applies the brakes to the mind.

The world is not outside you.

There is no Truth. There is only the truth within each moment.

Grace is within you. If it were external, it would be useless.