Quotes About Awareness

Meditation is a journey without movement. In the external world you have to move in order to go ahead, in meditation you don't move, yet you attain.

By concentrated meditation—in other words, by the stilling and focusing of the vibrations of consciousness (chitta vritti nirodha)—the individualized soul is enabled to reverse this process and thus perceive its subtler reality, its Divine origin, its true Self.

Once caught in that Light, once illumined by the Eternal, does a soul will its restoration to embodied selfhood in the artificial multiplicity of samsara? I think not. Yet it re-emerges into that embodied life nonetheless—but with a new perspective: Samsara is now Nirvana. The mundane is now Divine. The mind and intellect are infused with a new awareness: all is bright with Divinity, within and without.

Do not make the mistake of thinking that the soul is inside you, because if the soul is inside you, you will be outside it.

We always imagine that the Supreme Being is very far away -many, many millions of light years away- yet It is very near, in our throat itself.

Your goal is not to battle with the mind, but to witness the mind.

One must know one's own secret.

The breath is a bridge between body and mind.

Breathing is the one physical function which is both involuntary (it goes on by itself) and voluntary (we can control our respiration consciously). The staggering significance of this simple insight was obvious to India's inner explorers: the breath is therefore the key to control over the autonomic nervous system, that part of our functioning we Westerners were taught lies outside our awareness and runs entirely unconsciously.

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Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity

Regular meditation opens the avenues of intuitional knowledge, makes the mind calm and steady, awakens an ecstatic feeling, and brings the practitioner in contact with the source of his/her very being

A purified mind can grasp anything. It can dive deep into the subtlest subject and understand even transcendental things.

Do not love leisure. Waste not a minute. Be bold. Realize the Truth, here and now!

Do not think I imagine it — I see it.

This universe is my body. I am the Infinite, only I am not conscious of it now. But I am struggling to get this consciousness of the Infinite, and perfection will be reached when full consciousness of this Infinite comes.

The less the thought of the body, the better. For it is the body that drags us down. It is attachment, identification, which makes us miserable. That is the secret: To think that I am the spirit and not the body, and that the whole of this universe with all its relations, with all its good and all its evil, is but as a series of paintings — scenes on a canvas — of which I am the witness.

Turn thy gaze inward, wherein resides the Supreme Self

All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.

The powers of the mind are like the rays of the sun when they are concentrated they illumine.

Talk to yourself at least once in a Day, otherwise you may miss a meeting with an EXCELLENT person in this World.

The knowing ones must have pity on the ignorant. One who knows is willing to give up his body even for an ant, because he knows that the body is nothing.

When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.

The mind is in its own nature when it is calm. The moment you can calm it, that [very] moment you will know the truth.