Quotes About Awareness

Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.

Being must be felt. It can't be thought.

To recognize one's own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence.

Only the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free.

The moment that judgement stops through acceptance of what it is, you are free of the mind. You have made room for love, for joy, for peace.

Nothing has happened in the past; it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in the Now.

You are not IN the universe, you ARE the universe, an intrinsic part of it. Ultimately you are not a person, but a focal point where the universe is becoming conscious of itself. What an amazing miracle.

In today's rush we all think too much, seek too much, want too much and forget about the joy of just Being.

The beginning of freedom is the realization that you are not "the thinker." The moment you start watching the thinker, a higher level of consciousness becomes activated. You then begin to realize that there is a vast realm of intelligence beyond thought, that thought is only a tiny aspect of that intelligence. You also realize that all the things that truly matter – beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace – arise from beyond the mind. You begin to awaken.

What you react to in others, you strengthen in yourself.

Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn't very much.

Your outer journey may contain a million steps; your inner journey only has one: the step you are taking right now.

The significance is hiding in the insignificant. Appreciate everything.

Become conscious of being conscious.

Defining yourself through thought is limiting yourself.

It is when we are trapped in incessant streams of compulsive thinking that the universe really disintegrates for us, and we lose the ability to sense the interconnectedness of all that exists.

Die to the past every moment. You don't need it. Only refer to it when it is absolutely relevant to the present. Feel the power of this moment and the fullness of Being. Feel your presence.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but you thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking.

Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.

The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life.

The human condition: lost in thought.

Life isn't as serious as my mind makes it out to be.

The best indicator of your level of consciousness is how you deal with life's challenges when they come. Through those challenges, an already unconscious person tends to become more deeply unconscious, and a conscious person more intensely conscious. You can use a challenge to awaken you, or you can allow it to pull you into even deeper sleep. The dream of ordinary unconsciousness then turns into a nightmare.

Awareness is the power that is concealed within the present moment. … The ultimate purpose of human existence, which is to say, your purpose, is to bring that power into this world.