Quotes About Awareness

Enlightenment is seeing things as they are rather than as we imagine

Even a genius, without spiritual awareness, is still just a great calculator

Experience is the direct perception before belief, before thoughts

Explanation of experience pulls us out of experience and into thought

Hell has a sign over the exit door, and it reads awareness

Life does not happen to us, life flows through us

Many people, doctors, and scientists agree. We are our thoughts. Consciousness is a just a sophisticated function of the brain. Question? In meditation, who is the witness? Who is sitting there in the stillness? Who is aware of the mind-body? Who is quietly watching the thoughts? Who is the observer? How can we be both the observer and the observed?

No matter what it is called. No matter how it is imagined. Fancy labels and fantasy are based in thought. Thought is based in human consciousness. Human consciousness is not spiritual consciousness. Fantasy is not reality. We cannot wake up to who and what we truly are while remaining in the dream. There is a simple approach based in reality that works well. Awareness

Our projection can provide insight if we are paying attention to our projection

Our suffering is due to Spiritual Amnesia

Perception determines our reality, our life experience, our sub conscious programming, our physical and mental health. Perception may control our lives, but we control perception. Perception is interpretation by the brain. It can be of the sub conscious or conscious. While conscious, we determine our perception.

Presence calms the mind-body and soothes the heart

Reality cannot be experienced with the intellect, because the intellect can only think thoughts about reality

Spiritual awakening happens when we stop resisting

Spiritual teachers attempt to teach that which is beyond all thoughts and words. But being in the human condition we use thoughts and words to communicate. Do not get caught up on the teacher, their thoughts or words. Focus on the lesson, the concept. To focus on the sign post, is to miss the message. The message is not the sign post, but where the sign post is pointing.

Spirituality is life through awareness of our true essence

Spirituality is life through awareness of our true essence. In essence we are of the energetic realm. We are conscious energy. We illuminate from source. Like rays of sunshine illuminating from the sun, each of us are part of the whole. Collectively we make up supreme consciousness. The purpose of human life is for each of us to express our higher self. To awaken. Together we complete the whole. As we awaken, the greater good is done.

The secret to reality, is stillness of body and mind. Mental clarity is like a pond. Still the pond. Let everything settle. Vision then becomes crystal clear. When we still the body. When we still the mind. When we let all thoughts and emotions settle. When we remove all distractions. Only then, we clearly see reality as it is.

The secret to understanding reality is stillness of body and mind

There isn't anything out there. There is only oneness. There is only here and now

Thoughts about reality are not reality

Thoughts and emotions replace reality with illusion. Both are subject to exposure by truth

Unhappiness is directly proportional to our denial of reality

Watch thoughts and emotions rather than be thoughts and emotions