Quotes About Awareness

People who are drawn to meditation have had lots of incarnation in the world of experience, and we know the score. We know that experience is great, but it's not enough.

You don't have to meditate. You don't have to practice self-discovery and Buddhism. You should only practice self-discovery if you really have had it with the human world.

What you need to learn are basic types of concentration, bringing more energy into your life, plugging up the holes where you lose energy, the basics of self-discovery.

Enlightenment is cumulative. You become a little more enlightened each day as you practice yoga and Buddhism.

All happiness is inside your own mind. Chances are, you have not discovered that. Meditation is about experiencing the happiness inside your mind.

We sit here on the oasis of human consciousness and the verbal plane trying to talk about something that we just have to go and see and do and feel.

Your inner being already knows. It's trying to communicate with you. But it needs to shift you into a different state of mind.

There is an alternative. It's an old alternative. It's not for everybody. It's only for people who are smart, limited market. It's enlightenment.

Meditation is the pathway to enlightenment, and I would encourage you to follow that pathway as far as you can, into ecstasy.

Enlightenment is already there inside us and all things. All we have to do is get something out of the way that is causing us not to see that.

It's not logical, self-realization. If it was, everybody would be self-realized because everybody is logical.

The surface personality is only the beginning of what we are. So as we meditate, we still that surface personality, we can see beyond it, and we see that we encompass multitudes.

You are not what you seem to be. You are one of God's endless dreams in search of wakefulness. Meditation is wakefulness.

We are in control of the one asset that we all give the most f#%ks about, and that is time.

We shall come to honor all of Life sooner or later. Our choices are when that shall happen, and the quality of experience that we shall have as we learn.

Ignorance is not an extension of time

It often takes catching a glimpse of how our life would be without something that's valuable to us for us to realize just how valuable it is.

You are not a soul, you are not a mind, you are not a body. You are the controller of all three.

We meditate so that our minds can be sharp and alert. We chant mantras so that your souls may be ignited like candles. We walk in the light of this beauty.

The fact is that there is nothing more beautiful, more worthy or more conscious than you.

When you do not consciously relate to your body, your mind does not relate consciously to you.

In my cheapest moments I am apt to think that it is n't my business to be "seeking the spirit," but as much its business to be seeking me.

We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described.

A major part of the meaning of life is contained in the very process of discovering it.