Quotes About Awareness

The truth is: you don't have a life, you are life. The One Life, the one consciousness that pervades the entire universe and takes temporary form to experience itself as a stone or a blade of grass, as an animal, a person, a star or a galaxy. Can you sense deep within that you already know that? Can you sense that you already are That?

The present moment is all you will ever have.

You are the sky. The clouds are what happens, what comes and goes.

Many people don't realize until they are on their deathbed and everything external falls away that no thing ever had anything to do with who they are.

You are not your mind

Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at this moment.

Here is a new spiritual practice for you: don't take your thoughts too seriously.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

It may then seem that you had something very precious, and lost it, or your mind may convince you that it was all an illusion anyway. The truth is that it wasn't an illusion, and you cannot lose it. It is part of your natural state, which can be obscured but can never be destroyed by the mind. Even when the sky is heavily overcast, the sun hasn't disappeared. It's still there on the other side of the clouds.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking. Separate them from the situation, which is always neutral, which always is as it is.

What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to something that already is?

I want to know the mind of God," Einstein said. "The rest are details." What is the mind of God? Consciousness. What does it mean to know the mind of God? To be aware. What are the details? Your outer purpose, and whatever happens outwardly.

Consciousness is a vast ocean and thinking is the waves & ripples on the surface of the ocean. Every wave & ripple has a very short lived life - it is very fleeting Do not identify with your thoughts - continued indentification with the stream of thinking leads to a very serious dysfunction in ones sense of identity...

Not what you do, but how you do what you do determines whether you are fulfilling your destiny. And how you do what you do is determined by your state of consciousness.

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not "yours," not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

All I can do is remind you of what you have forgotten.

Don't seek the truth. Just cease to cherish opinions.

When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world.

Enlightenment is not only the end of suffering and of continuous conflict within and without, but also the end of the dreadful enslavement to incessant thinking. What an incredible liberation this is!

People believe themselves to be dependent on what happens for their happiness. They don't realize that what happens is the most unstable thing in the universe.

When you accept what is, every moment is the best moment. That is enlightenment.

But to know that you are not present is a great success:

Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.

What it doesn't say — but only points to — is more important than what it says.