Quotes About Awareness

One has to reach to the absolute state of awareness: that is Zen. You cannot do it every morning for a few minutes or for half an hour and then forget all about it. It has to become like your heartbeat. You have to sit in it, you have to walk in it. Yes, you have even to sleep in it.

Once your awareness becomes a flame, it burns up the whole slavery that the mind has created.

Man is almost mad—mad because he is seeking something which he has already got; mad because he's not aware of who he is; mad because he hopes, desires and then ultimately, feels frustrated. Frustration is bound to be there because you cannot find yourself by seeking; you are already there. The seeking has to stop, the search has to drop....

Don't look for God in the sky; look within your own body.

Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.

Nobody can teach you love. Love you have to find yourself, within your being, by raising your consciousness to higher levels.

You say that in heaven there is eternal beauty. The eternal beauty is here and now, not in heaven.

Beyond this day, no thinking person could fail to see what would happen.

És bela. Estar contigo é um dom como o de ver, como o dom de ouvir. Insensato seria estar junto de ti e não fruir o que és.

Sitting alone and apart, anybody has the right to talk with contempt of the mob and the crowd and the witless many. For everybody with his wits about him knows well enough that, once the crowd takes him again, he will do very silly things, things unworthy of so intelligent a person.

What hinders me from hearing is that I am taken up with other things. It is not that I will not hear God, but I am not devoted in the right place. I am devoted to things, to service, to convictions, and God may say what He likes but I do not hear Him.

If we have never had the experience of taking our commonplace religious shoes off our commonplace religious feet, and getting rid of all the undue familiarity with which we approach God, it is questionable whether we have ever stood in his presence.

The deadliest Pharisaism today is not hypocrisy, but unconscious unreality.

The voice of the Spirit is as gentle as a zephyr, so gentle that unless you are living in perfect communion with God, you never hear it.

I am blind to the very things that make for our own peace.

If you open your mouth in the dark, you will speak while in the wrong mood--darkness is the time to listen.

The sign that the Holy Ghost is in us is that we realise, not that we are full, but that we are empty, there is a sense of absolute need.

What makes God so dear to us is not so much His big blessings to us, but the tiny things, because they show His amazing intimacy with us—He knows every detail of each of our individual lives.

Then we will exclaim, "He has been here all the time!" At critical moments in our lives it is necessary to ask God for guidance, but it should be unnecessary to be constantly saying, "Oh, Lord, direct me in this, and in that." Of course He will, and in fact, He is doing it already!

He wants with us. He wants us in a relationship where He is so easily our Master and Teacher that we have no conscious awareness of it—a relationship where all we know is that we are His to obey.

The Lord's questions always reveal the true me to myself.

You must constantly beware of anything that causes you to think of yourself as a superior person.

Beware of not acting upon what you see in your moments on the mountaintop with God.

If we have never had the experience of taking our commonplace religious shoes off our commonplace religious feet, and getting rid of all the undue familiarity with which we approach God, it is questionable whether we have ever stood in His presence. The people who are flippant and familiar are those who have never yet been introduced to Jesus Christ. After the amazing delight and liberty of realising what Jesus Christ does, comes the impenetrable darkness of realising Who He is.