Quotes About Awareness

We only know the universe from the point of view of beings with five senses. Suppose we obtain another sense, the whole universe must change for us.

Where the whole world is awake, the sage sleeps.

A little of the infinite is projected into consciousness, and that we call our world.

The more we grow in Love, Virtue and Holiness, the more we see Love, Virtue and Holiness outside.

It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thoughts make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light.

But where the ignorant are asleep, there the sage keeps awake

THE WHOLE LIFE IS A SUCCESSION OF DREAMS; MY AMBITION IS TO BE A CONSCIOUS DREAMER, THATS ALL.

We may talk and reason all our lives, but we shall not understand a word of truth, until we experience it ourselves.

Every work that we do, every movement of the body, every thought that we think, leaves such an impression on the mind-stuff, and even when such impressions are not obvious on the surface, they are sufficiently strong to work beneath the surface, subconsciously. What we are every moment is determined by the sum total of these impressions on the mind.

Realisation is real religion, all the rest is only preparation — hearing lectures, or reading books, or reasoning is merely preparing the ground; it is not religion.

As such he cannot experience the nature of the soul. ...

Let us not be caught this time. So many times Maya has caught us, so many times have we exchanged our freedom for sugar dolls which melted when the water touched them. Don't be deceived. Maya is a great cheat. Get out. Do not let her catch you this time. Do not sell your priceless heritage for such delusions. Arise, awake, stop not till the goal is reached.

Then he sees that this attachment is all delusion.

we have to bear the result of our own actions because we attach ourselves to them. ...

All this bringing of the mind into a higher state of vibration is included in one word in Yoga — Samadhi.

Where it is dark night for the [sense-bound] world, the self controlled [man] is awake.

It is daylight for him. ...

It is the touch of the senses that brings all this quality of existence: heat and cold, pleasure and pain.

Where one sees another, one hears another so long as there are two, there must be fear, and fear is the mother of all [misery].

The powers of the mind are like rays of light dissipated; when they are concentrated, they illumine.

A child knows when they are on the receiving end of a didactic exercise, or when they are sitting in the shadow of something else.

Anger becomes limiting, restricting. You can't see through it. While anger is there, look at that, too. But after a while, you have to look at something else.

Chanting is a simple practice. When you notice you are thinking about something else during the chant, let go of the thought and come back home, to the chant, to that place where we are expressing our inner purity.

When climate goes away as an apocalyptic concern, something else will emerge. No doubt about it.