Quotes About Awareness

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

You don't seek permanency where it cannot be found: in the world of form, of gain and loss, birth and death. You don't demand that situations, conditions, places, or people should make you happy, and then suffer when they don't live up to your expectations. Everything is honored, but nothing matters. Forms are born and die, yet you are aware of the eternal underneath the forms. You know that "nothing real can be threatened."3

Instead of "watching the thinker," you can also create a gap in the mind stream simply by directing the focus of your attention into the Now. Just become intensely conscious of the present moment. This is a deeply satisfying thing to do. In this way, you draw consciousness away from mind activity and create a gap of no-mind in which you are highly alert and aware but not thinking. This is the essence of meditation.

The beginning of freedom is the realization that you are not the possessing entity — the thinker. Knowing this enables you to observe the entity. The moment you start watching the thinker, a higher level of consciousness becomes activated.

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

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not "yours," not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go.

When you create a problem, you create pain. All it takes is a simple choice, a simple decision: no matter what happens, I will create no more pain for myself. I will create no more problems.

The Now is also central to the teaching of Sufism, the mystical branch of Islam. Sufis have a saying: "The Sufi is the son of time present." And Rumi, the great poet and teacher of Sufism, declares: "Past and future veil God from our sight; burn up both of them with fire." Meister Eckhart, the thirteenth-century spiritual teacher, summed it all up beautifully: "Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time.

making yourself right and others wrong is one of the principal ego mind patterns, one of the main forms of unconsciousness.

The only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step that you are taking at this moment. That's all there ever is.

And the miracle is that when you are no longer placing an impossible demand on it, every situation, person, place, or event becomes not only satisfying but also more harmonious, more peaceful.

The intensity of the pain depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment.

You are then like an apparently poor person who does not know he has a bank account with $100 million in it and so his wealth remains an unexpressed potential.

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

The wider the time gap between perception and thought, the more depth there is to you as a human being, which is to say the more conscious you are.

Ask yourself: Is there joy, ease, and lightness in what I am doing? If there isn't, then time is covering up the present moment, and life is perceived as a burden or a struggle.

why Human should not look at the past?

draw consciousness away from mind activity and create a gap of no-mind in which you are highly alert and aware but not thinking. This is the essence of meditation.

If you consider the ego to be your personal problem, that's just more ego.

When you awaken, nature awakens, too.

present moment holds the key to liberation.

Su tarea no es buscar amor sino encontrar una puerta a través de la cual el amor pueda entrar" .

It is inner stillness that will save and transform the world.

The thinking mind cannot understand Presence