Quotes About Awareness

Your duty is to be and not to be this or that. 'I am that I am' sums up the whole truth. The method is summed up in the words 'Be still'. What does stillness mean? It means destroy yourself. Because any form or shape is the cause for trouble. Give up the notion that 'I am so and so'. All that is required to realize the Self is to be still. What can be easier than that?

Wanting to reform the world without discovering one's true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.

You can only stop the flow of thoughts by refusing to have any interest in it.

Let what comes come. Let what goes go. Find out what remains.

There is neither Past nor Future. There is only the Present.

If the mind falls asleep, awaken it. Then if it starts wandering, make it quiet. If you reach the state where there is neither sleep nor movement of mind, stay still in that, the natural (real) state.

All that is required to realise the Self is to "Be Still.

Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage

Eventually, all that one has learnt will have to be forgotten.

Become conscious of being conscious. Say or think "I am", and add nothing to it. Be aware of the stillness that follows the "I am". Sense your presence, the naked unveiled, unclothed beingness. It is untouched by young or old, rich or poor, good or bad, or any other attributes. It is the spacious womb of all creation, all form.

Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality Whatever you think it is, it looks like that. If you call it time, it is time. If you call it existence, it is existence, and so on. After calling it time, you divide it into days and nights, months, years, hours, minutes, etc. Time is immaterial for the Path of Knowledge. But some of these rules and discipline are good for beginners.

When one remains without thinking one understands another by means of the universal language of silence.

Everything in the world was my Guru.

If you hold this feeling of 'I' long enough and strongly enough, the false 'I' will vanish leaving only the unbroken awareness of the real, immanent 'I', consciousness itself

Remain still, with the conviction that the Self shines as everything yet nothing, within, without, and everywhere.

Mind your business. Take care of what you came here for. Find the 'I' first and you may afterwards speak of other matters.

Your concentration must come as easily as the breath. Fix yourself on one thing and try to hold onto it. All will come right. Meditation is sticking to one thought. That single thought keeps away other thoughts. The dissipated mind is a sign of its weakness. By constant meditation it gains strength.

Does a man who is acting on the stage in a female part forget that he is a man? Similarly, we too must play our parts on the stage of life, but we must not identify ourselves with those parts.

You are awareness. Awareness is another name for you. Since you are awareness there is no need to attain or cultivate it.

The enquiry 'Who am I?' is the principal means to the removal of all misery and the attainment of the supreme bliss.

The revelation or intuition arises in its own time and one must wait for it.

You are already that which you seek

There is nothing like 'within' or 'without.' Both mean either the same thing or nothing.

A day will dawn when you will laugh at your past efforts. What you realize on the day you laugh is also here and now