Quotes About Awareness

I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which all things happen. I am consciousness. I am the now. I am.

Knowing the oneness of yourself and the other is true love, true care, true compassion.

You cannot pay attention to silence without simultaneously becoming still within. Silence without, stillness within.

La razón por la que a algunas personas les encanta embarcarse en actividades peligrosas, como el montañismo, las carreras de autos u otras, aunque puede que no sean conscientes de ello, es que los fuerzan a entrar en el Ahora, ese estado intensamente vívido que está libre del tiempo, libre de problemas, libre del pensamiento, libre del peso de la personalidad.

El reconocimiento y la aceptación de los hechos te permite cierta libertad respecto a ellos.

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The awareness that is prior to thought, the space in which the thought—or the emotion or sense perception

The content you identify with is conditioned by your environment, your upbringing, and surrounding culture.

all the things that truly matter — beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace — arise from beyond the mind.

If you can recognize, even occasionally, the thoughts that go through your mind as simply thoughts, if you can witness your own mental-emotional reactive patterns as they happen, then that dimension is already emerging in you as the awareness in which thoughts and emotions happen — the timeless inner space in which the content of your life unfolds.

estamos conectados, más que separados, con el resto de la vida y el espectro completo de la conciencia comprende tanto la dimensión física como una multitud de dimensiones no físicas de la realidad.

El sufrimiento necesita del tiempo; no puede sobrevivir en el Ahora.

Thinking is only a small aspect of consciousness. Thought cannot exist without consciousness, but consciousness does not need thought.

Whenever you are waiting, wherever it may be, use that time to feel the inner body. In this way, traffic jams and lines become very enjoyable. Instead of mentally projecting yourself away from the Now, go more deeply into the Now by going more deeply into the body.

Todas las adicciones surgen de una negativa inconsciente a encarar y traspasar el propio dolor. Todas las adicciones empiezan con dolor y terminan con dolor. Cualquiera que sea la sustancia que origine la adicción —alcohol, comida, drogas (legales o ilegales) o una persona—, estás usando algo o a alguien para encubrir tu dolor.

When Being becomes conscious of itself — that's presence.

Most human relationships consist mainly of minds interacting with each other, not of human beings communicating, being in communion. No relationship can thrive in that way, and that is why there is so much conflict in relationships. When the mind is running your life, conflict, strife, and problems are inevitable. Being in touch with your inner body creates a clear space of no-mind within which the relationship can flower.

Notice also how often your attention is in the past or future. Don't judge or analyze what you observe. Watch the thought, feel the emotion, observe the reaction. Don't make a personal problem out of them. You will then feel something more powerful than any of those things that you observe: the still, observing presence itself behind the content of your mind, the silent watcher.

La prueba no está en los argumentos intelectuales sino en ser tocado en alguna medida por lo sagrado.

The reason why you don't put your hand in the fire is not because of fear, it's because you know that you'll get burned. You don't need fear to avoid unnecessary danger — just a minimum of intelligence and common sense.

the "normal" state of mind of most human beings contains a strong element of what we might call dysfunction or even madness.

Then the mind is using you. You are unconsciously identified with it, so you don't even know that you are its slave. It's almost as if you were possessed without knowing it, and so you take the possessing entity to be yourself. The beginning

The emotion is the relative truth of your state of mind at that time. Watch the emotion. You are the watcher, not the emotion.

If you are able to stay alert and present at that time and watch whatever you feel within, rather than be taken over by it, it affords an opportunity for the most powerful spiritual practice, and a rapid transmutation of all past pain becomes possible.