Quotes About Awareness

Spiritual progress is when on becomes free not only of the knowledge which is inevitably from the past, but also from the need to know... and a desire to predict and control.

prajñ?nam brahman ("consciousness is Brahman").

o my mind, get me to meet me and then onwards, mind your own business.

Unexpected inspiration strikes those who observe the world with heightened awareness, greater intensity, and divine empathy.

But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.

I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.

We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?

But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.

Billy Graham Dead? We Know Better.

All you have to do is relax and feel your history, because it will never go away and there is no future without it.

Why have you been so blind? Why have you never seen? The slave and master in one skin Is all your history, no more, no less Confess! This is what you've been.

Montag, you're looking at a coward. I saw the way things were going, a long time back. I said nothing. I'm one of the innocents who could have spoken up and out when no one would listen to the "guilty," but I did not speak and thus became guilty myself.

She did not think policeman—she simply watched and took in images, sounds, sensations.

The function of the zazen and koan is to undo the system that contains them.

The first is that all effort to negate self only succeeds in affirming it. The second is that self is not a thing but a reference position.

So the real answer to any fundamental question is experience itself.

34. Beneath Each Knowing There is mystery because there is not-knowing. Yet beneath each knowing is the next not-knowing. So each knowing deepens the mystery. Yet even in knowing there is the mystery of knowing.

Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.

Too many salesmen, I found, would make a good presentation and convince the client, but they couldn't recognize that critical moment when they should have stopped talking. If

Even though we think we see the world so fully, what we are receiving is really just hints

a mind is a brain that is conscious.

While I probably should have mentioned that you shouldn't try this in a real moving car (but then I assume you have already mastered the rule that you shouldn't drive with your eyes closed), that's not really the key problem here.

Work by physiology professor Benjamin Libet at the University of California at Davis shows that neural activity to initiate an action actually occurs about a third of a second before the brain has made the decision to take the action.

The essential thing is to recognize that consciousness is a biological process like digestion, lactation, photosynthesis, or mitosis";