Quotes About Awareness

Identification with the mind gives it more energy; observation of the mind withdraws energy from it.

I am ruined" is a story. It limits you and prevents you from taking effective action. "I have fifty cents left in my bank account" is a fact. Facing facts is always empowering. Be

una persona ya inconsciente tiende a volverse más profundamente inconsciente y una persona consciente más intensamente consciente. Usted puede utilizar un reto para despertar, o puede permitir que lo empuje a un sueño aún más profundo. El sueño de la inconsciencia ordinaria se convierte entonces en una pesadilla.

Cuando usted está presente, cuando su atención está completa e intensamente en el Ahora, se puede sentir el Ser, pero nunca puede ser entendido mentalmente

In Zen they say: "Don't seek the truth. Just cease to cherish opinions." What does that mean? Let go of identification with your mind. Who you are beyond the mind then emerges by itself.

Intellectual agreement is just another belief and won't make much difference to your life. To realize this truth, you need to live it.

accept it as if you had chosen it.

There is no salvation in time. You cannot be free in the future. Presence is the key to freedom, so you can only be free now.

The oak tree or the eagle would be bemused by such a question. "What time?" they would ask. "Well, of course, it's now. The time is now. What else is there?" Yes, we need the mind as well as time to function in this world, but there comes a point where they take over our lives, and this is where dysfunction, pain, and sorrow set in.

We have forgotten how to be — to be still, to be ourselves, to be where life is: Here and Now.

When I don't mind what happens, what does that imply? It implies that internally I am in alignment with what happens. "What happens," of course, refers to the suchness of this moment, which always already is as it is.

To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important. This total reversal of the truth accounts for the fact that in the ego mode the mind is so dysfunctional.

I am the awareness that is aware that there is attachment." That's the beginning of the transformation of consciousness.

La identificación con su mente, que hace que el pensamiento se vuelva compulsivo. No ser capaz de dejar de pensar es una calamidad terrible, pero no nos damos cuenta de ello porque casi todo el mundo esta sufriendolo, así que se considera normal. Este ruido mental incesante nos impide encontrar ese reino de quietud interior que es inseparable del Ser.

Enlightenment means rising above thought

Jesus speaks of the five careless (unconscious) women who do not have enough oil (consciousness) to keep their lamps burning (stay present) and so miss the bridegroom (the Now) and don't get to the wedding feast (enlightenment). These five stand in contrast to the five wise women who have enough oil (stay conscious).

Pregúntese a sí mismo qué "problema" tiene ahora mismo, no el año que viene, mañana o dentro de cinco minutos. ¿Qué está mal en este momento? Usted puede siempre enfrentar el Ahora, pero nunca puede enfrentar el futuro, ni tiene que hacerlo. La respuesta, la fuerza, la acción o el recurso correctos estarán allá cuando los necesite, no antes ni después.

La iluminación no es sólo el fin del sufrimiento y del conflicto continuo interior y exterior, sino también el fin de la temible esclavitud del pensamiento incesante.

If it is the quality of your consciousness at this moment that determines the future, then what is it that determines the quality of your consciousness? Your degree of presence. So the only place where true change can occur and where the past can be dissolved is the Now.

The ego doesn't know that your only opportunity for being at peace is now. Or maybe it does know, and it is afraid that you may find this out. Peace, after all, is the end of the ego.

natural state of felt oneness with Being.

Even when the ego seems to be concerned with the present, it is not the present that it sees: It misperceives it completely because it looks at it through the eyes of the past. Or it reduces the present to a means to an end, an end that always lies in the mind-projected future.

Be aware that what you think, to a large extent, creates the emotions that you feel. See the link between your thinking and your emotions. Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.

finding your true nature beyond name and form.