Quotes About Awareness

Je mehr gemeinsame Vergangenheit eine Beziehung hat, umso gegenwärtiger musst du sein, wenn du nicht gezwungen werden willst, immer wieder diese Vergangenheit zu leben.

Or when you get into your car, after you close the door, pause for a few seconds and observe the flow of your breath. Become aware of a silent but powerful sense of presence. There is one certain criterion by which you can measure your success in this practice: the degree of peace that you feel within.

Nothing ever happened in the past; it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in the Now. The

The ego thrives on others' attention, which is after all a form of psychic energy. The ego doesn't know that the source of all energy is within you, so it seeks it outside.

You can become aware of awareness as the background to all your sense perceptions, all your thinking.

If you have difficulty feeling your emotions, start by focusing attention on the inner energy field of your body. Feel the body from within. This will also put you in touch with your emotions

Así que es esencial traer más conciencia a su vida en las situaciones ordinarias cuando todo transcurre con relativa facilidad. De esta forma, usted crece en poder de presencia. Eso genera un campo de energía en usted y alrededor de usted de una gran frecuencia de vibraciones

Pero ¿necesitas tener una relación contigo mismo? ¿Por qué no puedes simplemente ser tú mismo? Para tener una relación contigo mismo te divides en dos: «yo» y «mí mismo», sujeto y objeto.

Show your friend how to be the observing presence behind her thoughts and her emotions. Tell her about the pain-body and how to free herself from it. Teach her the art of inner-body awareness. Demonstrate to her the meaning of presence. As soon as she is able to access the power of the Now, and thereby break through her conditioned past, she will have a choice.

This is why, for so many people, a large part of their sense of self is intimately connected with their problems. Once this has happened, the last thing they want is to become free of them; that would mean loss of self. There can be a great deal of unconscious ego investment in pain and suffering.

Todos nós sofremos ao ignorar ou negar cada momento precioso ou reduzi-lo a um meio para alcançar algo no futuro, algo que só existe em nossas mentes, nunca na realidade.

What you think of as the past is a memory trace, stored in the mind, of a former Now.

The moment you realize you are not present, you are present.

Rumi, the great poet and teacher of Sufism, declares: "Past and future veil God from our sight; burn up both of them with fire.

Open your eyes and see the fear, the despair, the greed, and the violence that are all-pervasive. See the heinous cruelty and suffering on an unimaginable scale that humans have inflicted and continue to inflict on each other as well as on other life forms on the planet.

an emotion is the body's reaction to your mind. What

The moment you start watching the thinker, a higher level of consciousness becomes activated. You then begin to realize that all the things that truly matter - beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace - arise from beyond the mind. You begin to wake.

Every addiction arises from an unconscious refusal to face and move through your own pain. Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain. Whatever the substance you are addicted to — alcohol, food, legal or illegal drugs, or a person — you are using something or somebody to cover up your pain.

Yes. Make it a habit to ask yourself: What's going on inside me at this moment? That question will point you in the right direction. But don't analyze, just watch. Focus your attention within. Feel the energy of the emotion. If there is no emotion present, take your attention more deeply into the inner energy field of your body. It is the doorway into Being.

Así pues, "habitar el cuerpo" es sentir el cuerpo desde adentro, sentir la vida dentro del cuerpo y por lo tanto llegar a saber que usted existe más allá de la forma externa.

tendrá elección. Nadie elige la disfunción, el conflicto, el dolor. Nadie elige la locura. Ocurren porque no hay suficiente presencia en usted para disolver el pasado, suficiente luz para disipar las tinieblas.

You get there by realizing that you already are there

Time isn't precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time — past and future — the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.

Close your eyes and say to yourself: I wonder what my next thought is going to be. Then become as alert as a cat watching a mouse hole. You may find that, as long as you are absolutely alert, the next thought does not arise