Quotes About Awareness

Enlightenment consciously chosen means to relinquish your attachment to past and future and to make the Now the main focus of your life.

Due to a complete lack of self-awareness, they cannot tell the difference between an event and their reaction to the event.

The ego is not only the unobserved mind, the voice in the head which pretends to be you, but also the unobserved emotions that are the body's reaction to what the voice in the head is saying.

un pensamiento está en su mente, una emoción tiene un fuerte componente físico, por lo tanto se siente primariamente en el cuerpo.

Suffering needs time; it cannot survive in the Now.

Even if the voice is relevant to the situation at hand, it will interpret it in terms of the past. This is because the voice belongs to your conditioned mind, which is the result of all your past history as well as of the collective cultural mind-set you inherited.

This forgetfulness is original sin, suffering, delusion. When this delusion of utter separateness underlies and governs whatever I think, say, and do, what kind of world do I create?

If you were conscious, that is to say totally present in the Now, all negativity would dissolve almost instantly. It could not survive in your presence.

It is the quality of your consciousness at this moment that is the main determinant of what kind of future you will experience

Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now;

the ultimate purpose of the world lies not within the world but in transcendence of the world.

NOW HERE IS YOUR SECOND CHANCE AT SURRENDER: If you cannot accept what is outside, then accept what is inside. If you cannot accept the external condition, accept the internal condition.

inconsciencia ordinaria significa estar identificado con sus procesos de pensamiento y con sus emociones, sus reacciones, deseos y aversiones. Es el estado normal de la mayoría de las personas.

Complaining is one of the ego's favorite strategies for strengthening itself. Every complaint is a little story the mind makes up that you completely believe in. Whether you complain aloud or only in thought makes no difference. Some

Inner resistance is to say "no" to what is, through mental judgment and emotional negativity. It becomes particularly pronounced when things "go wrong," which means that there is a gap between the demands or rigid expectations of your mind and what is. That is the pain gap.

This is normal, and it is insane.

There is only one perpetrator of evil on the planet: human unconsciousness.

Every sound is born out of silence, dies back into silence, and during its life span is surrounded by silence. Silence enables the sound to be.

The wider the time gap between perception and thought, the more depth there is to you as a human being[.]

If the master is not present in the house, all kinds of shady characters will take up residence there.

there is no need to go elsewhere for the truth. Let me show you how to go more deeply into what you already have.

This kind of compulsive thinking is actually an addiction. What characterizes an addiction? Quite simply this: you no longer feel that you have the choice to stop. It seems stronger than you. It also gives you a false sense of pleasure, pleasure that invariably turns into pain.

If there were nothing but thought in you. You wouldn't even know your thinking. You would be like a dreamer who doesn't know he's dreaming. You would be as identified with thought as a dreamer is with every image in the dream.

Instead of blaming the darkness, you bring in the light.