Quotes About Awareness

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately, it is not so much that you use your mind wrongly — you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

How to be at peace now? By making peace with the present moment. The present moment is the field on which the game of life happens. It cannot happen anywhere else. Once you have made peace with the present moment, see what happens, what you can do or choose to do, or rather what life does through you.

Now consider this: If there were nothing but silence, it wouldn't exist for you; you wouldn't know what it is. Only when sound appears does silence come into being.

End the delusion of time. Time and mind are inseparable. Remove time from the mind and it stops — unless you choose to use it. To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation.

We can learn not to keep situations or events alive in our minds, but to return our attention continuously to the pristine, timeless present moment rather than be caught up in mental movie-making. Our very Presence then becomes our identity, rather than our thoughts and emotions.

listen to the voice in your head, be there as the witnessing presence.

This is the disease. You believe that you are your mind. This is the delusion. The instrument has taken you over.

In other words, the content of the ego may change; the mind structure that keeps it alive does not.

There is nothing wrong with striving to improve your life situation. You can improve your life situation, but you cannot improve your life.

Thinking has become a disease. Disease happens when things get out of balance. For example, there is nothing wrong with cells dividing and multiplying in the body, but when this process continues in disregard of the total organism, cells proliferate and we have disease.

If the shutters are closed, the sunlight cannot come in.

The mind absorbs all your consciousness and transforms it into mind stuff. You cannot stop thinking. Compulsive thinking has become a collective disease. Your whole sense of who you are is then derived from mind activity.

As it is, I would say about 80 to 90 percent of most people's thinking is not only repetitive and useless, but because of its dysfunctional and often negative nature, much of it is also harmful. Observe your mind and you will find this to be true. It causes a serious leakage of vital energy.

I would say about 80 to 90 percent of people's thinking is not only repetitive and useless, but because of its dysfunction and often negative nature, much of it is also harmful. Observe your mind and you will know this to be true. It causes a serious leakage of vital energy.

Are you defending the truth? No, the truth, in any case, needs no defense.

Can human beings lose the density of their conditioned mind structures and become like crystals or precious stones, so to speak, transparent to the light of consciousness?

La mente egotista colectiva es la entidad más peligrosamente demente y destructiva que jamás habitó este planeta.

To put it more accurately, it is not so much that you use your mind wrongly —you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

Después, la gente venía ocasionalmente a mí y me decía: "Quiero lo que usted tiene. ¿Puede dármelo o mostrarme cómo lograrlo?" Y yo decía: "Usted ya lo tiene. Sólo que no puede sentirlo porque su mente hace demasiado ruido".

Si no fuera por el alcohol, los tranquilizantes, los antidepresivos así como las drogas ilegales, que son todos consumidos en grandes cantidades, la demencia de la mente humana sería aún mucho más evidente de lo que lo es ya.

el ochenta o noventa por ciento del pensamiento de la mayoría de las personas es, no sólo repetitivo e inútil, sino que por su naturaleza disfuncional y a menudo negativa

You need even more awareness to see it in yourself than to recognize it in another person.

For happiness, how little suffices for happiness!…the least thing precisely, the gentlest thing, the lightest thing, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a wisk, an eye glance—little maketh up the best happiness. Be still."4

Only through awareness -- not through thinking -- can you differentiate between fact and opinion.