Quotes About Awareness

Seen from a higher perspective, conditions are always positive. To be more precise: they are neither positive nor negative. They are as they are.

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, gran parte de él es también perjudicial.

Die to the past every moment. You don't need it. Only refer to it when it is absolutely relevant to the present. Feel the power of this moment and the fullness of Being. Feel your presence.

Now is the only point that can take you beyond the limited confines of the mind. It is your only point of access into the timeless and formless realm of Being.

The ego perceives itself as a separate fragment in a hostile universe, with no real inner connection to any other being, surrounded by other egos which it either sees as a potential threat or which it will attempt to use for its own ends.

But if you accept that the relationship is here to make you conscious instead of happy, then the relationship will offer you salvation, and you will be aligning yourself with the higher consciousness that wants to be born into this world.

Most of the so-called bad things that happen in people's lives are due to unconsciousness. They are self-created, or rather ego-created.

Before you were the thoughts, emotions, and reactions; now you are the awareness, the conscious Presence that witnesses those states.

Nature exists in a state of unconscious oneness with the whole. This, for example, is why virtually no wild animals were killed in the tsunami disaster of 2004. Being more in touch with the totality than humans, they could sense the tsunami's approach long before it could be seen or heard and so had time to withdraw to higher terrain.

Most people don't inhabit a living reality, but a conceptualized one.

Surrender does not transform what is, at least not directly. Surrender transforms you. When you are transformed, your whole world is transformed, because the world is only a reflection. We spoke about this earlier.

long as they are their mind, what they fear and resist most is their own awakening.

As you become more conscious of your present reality, you may suddenly get certain insights as to why your conditioning functions in those particular ways — for example, why your relationships follow certain patterns — and you may remember things that happened in the past or see them more clearly.

awareness is the main dilemma of human existence. I looked upon the professors as sages who had all the answers and upon the university as the temple of knowledge. How could an insane person like her

Mind isn't as serious as my mind makes it out to be.

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

Your primary purpose is now to enable consciousness to flow into what you do.

The whole advertising industry and consumer society would collapse if people became enlightened and no longer sought to find their identity through things.

Most human relationships consist mainly of minds interacting with each other, not of human beings communicating, being in communion.

You cannot stop thinking. Compulsive thinking has become a collective disease.

Feel yourself becoming transparent, as it were, without the solidity of a material body. Now allow the noise, or whatever causes a negative reaction, to pass right through you. It is no longer hitting a solid "wall" inside you.

A veces, simplemente, basta con cambiar la manera de hacerlo. El «cómo» siempre es más importante que el «qué». Trata de conceder mucha más atención a lo que haces que al resultado que esperas obtener. Centra toda tu atención en lo que el momento te ofrezca.

ROMPE LA VIEJA ESTRUCTURA de resistencia al momento presente, de negación del presente. Convierte en práctica el hecho de retirar la atención que prestas al pasado y al futuro cuando no sean necesarios.

Es cierto que sólo una persona inconsciente intentará usar o manipular a las demás, pero es igualmente cierto que sólo una persona inconsciente puede ser usada y manipulada.