Quotes About Awareness

8  ââ'¬Å"The well-practiced mind does not wander after anything else. Through constant practice (abhyasa yoga) living becomes a lifelong meditation on the Divine. Then, no matter what you may be doing, you are imbibing godly tendencies. This becomes a habit of the mind. Educate your mind to this habit. This is how one finds God and goes to God.

beyond time, space, and circumstances to the place where the mind is tranquil and ego disappears.

the cessation of your pain and sorrow will depend on how well you overcome your ignorance of your True Self that lives within you.

One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.

It is funny that some of must not only get our bearings but must also know all the details of the world before we venture out into it.

Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.

For the first time in my life the weather was not something that touched me, that caressed me, froze or sweated me, but became me.

Let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious.

You'd be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday

Suppose we suddenly wake up and see that what we thought to be this and that, ain't this and that at all?

all day long wearing a hat that wasn't on my head

It's only through form that we can realize emptiness

Last night I walked clear down to Times Square & just as I arrived I suddenly realized I was a ghost - it was my ghost walking on the sidewalk.

Your mind makes out the orange by seeing it, hearing it, touching it, smelling it, tasting it and thinking about it but without this mind, you call it, the orange would not be seen or heard or smelled or tasted or even mentally noticed, it's actually, that orange, depending on your mind to exist! Don't you see that? By itself it's a no-thing, it's really mental, it's seen only of your mind. In other words it's empty and awake.

don't stop to think of the words when you do stop, just stop to think of the picture better-and let your mind off yourself in this work.

How clear the realization one is going mad -- the mind has a silence, nothing happens in the physique, urine gathers in your loins, your ribs contract.

DEAR BABY, Isn't it good to know winter is coming—

Why did I allow myself to be bored ever in the past and to compensate for it got high or drunk or rages or all the tricks people have because they want anything but serene understanding of just what there is, which is after all so much.

One night I was meditating in such perfect stillness that two mosquitoes came and sat on each of my cheekbones and stayed there a long time without biting and then went away.

And a bird who was on a crooked branch is suddenly gone without my even hearing him.

I felt like telling Japhy everything I thought but I knew it didn't matter and moreover he knew it anyway and silence is the golden mountain.

for you are an observer, you know, you observe things, that's why you live.

be in love with your life. every detail of it.

I see as much as doors'll allow, open or shut