Quotes About Awareness

The ego could be defined simply in this way: a dysfunctional relationship with the present moment.

The present moment is all you ever have. There is never a time when your life is not 'this moment.

When you act out of present-moment awareness, whatever you do becomes imbued with a sense of quality, care, and love — even the most simple action.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive.

Whenever you deeply accept this moment as it is — no matter what form it takes — you are still, you are at peace.

You might say, "What a dreadful day," without realizing that the cold, the wind, and the rain or whatever condition you react to are not dreadful. They are as they are. What is dreadful is your reaction, your inner resistance to it, and the emotion that is created by that resistance. In Shakespeare's words, "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

It always looks as if people had a choice, but that is an illusion. As long as your mind with its conditioned patterns runs your life, as long as you are your mind, what choice do you have?

When you are enlightened, there is one relationship that you no longer have: the relationship with yourself. Once you have given that up, all your other relationships will be love relationships.

If you are in the habit of creating suffering for yourself, you are probably creating suffering for others too. These unconscious mind patterns tend to come to an end simply by making them conscious, by becoming aware of them as they happen. You cannot be conscious and create suffering for yourself.

Waiting is a state of mind. Basically, it means that you want the future; you don't want the present.

Whenever you feel superior or inferior to anyone, that's the ego in you.

To be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of past for your identity and future for your fulfillment.

Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already another form of violence.

There is no substitute for finding true purpose. But the true or primary purpose of your life cannot be found on the outer level. It does not concern what you do but what you are—that is to say, your state of consciousness.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.

In other words, the more you are identified with your mind, the more you suffer.

And then one day, you too disappear. Your armchair is still there. But instead of you sitting in it, there is just an empty space. You went back to where you came from just a few years ago.

psychological time, which is the mind's deep-seated habit of seeking the fullness of life in the future where it cannot be found and ignoring the only point of access to it: the present moment.

The more you are focused on time — past and future — the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.

Seek out a tree, and let it teach you stillness.

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.

So you see and judge the present through the eyes of the past and get a totally distorted view of it.

unless you learn to recognize the false as false — as not you — there can be no lasting transformation, and you would always end up being drawn back into illusion and into some form of pain.

When you are aware that you are thinking, that awareness is not part of thinking. It is a different dimension of consciousness. It is that awareness that says I AM