Quotes About Awareness

As long as you don't recognize those thought forms within yourself, as long as they remain unconscious, you will believe in what they say; you will be condemned to acting out those unconscious thoughts, condemned to seeking and not finding—because when those thought forms operate, no possession, place, person, or condition will ever satisfy you.

Action arising out of insight into what is required is more effective than action arising out of negativity.

But any changes that you make, whether they have to do with your work, your relationships, or your surroundings, are ultimately only cosmetic unless they arise out of a change in your level of consciousness.

Can you feel there is something in you that would rather be right than at peace?

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.

who are you? Consciousness that has become conscious of itself.

A large part of many people's lives is consumed by an obsessive preoccupation with things. This

Always say "yes" to the present moment.

si no hubiera ilusión no habría iluminación".

Identification with the mind creates more time; observation of the mind opens up the dimension of the timeless. The energy that is withdrawn from the mind turns into presence.

You only experience the present moment, or rather what happens in it. If you go by direct evidence only, then there is no time, and the Now is all there is.

Lo que te hace seguir adelante es la esperanza, pero la esperanza hace que estés enfocado en el futuro, y ese enfoque permanente perpetúa tu negación del ahora y, por tanto, tu infelicidad.

80 to 90 percent of most people's thinking is not only repetitive and useless, but because of its dysfunctional and often negative nature, much of it is also harmful

The eternal present is the space within which your whole life unfolds, the one factor that remains constant. Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be. The 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 present moment is all you ever have. There is never a time when your life is not "this moment.

All you really need to do is accept this moment fully.

the relationship is here to make you conscious instead of happy

This results in a total unawareness of my connectedness with the whole, my intrinsic oneness with every "other" as well as with the Source. 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?

Of course, you are not usually conscious of all your thought patterns, and it is often only through watching your emotions that you can bring them into awareness.

The future is an imagined Now, a projection of the mind. When the future comes, it comes as the Now.

Body awareness keeps you present. It anchors you in the Now (see chapter 6).

With every kind of waiting, you unconsciously create inner conflict between where you don't want to be (now) and where you want to be (the projected future). Give up waiting as a state of mind. When you catch yourself slipping into waiting, snap out of it. Come into the present moment. Just be, and enjoy being. If you are present, there is never any need for you to wait for anything.

A new heaven" is the emergence of a transformed state of human consciousness, and "a new earth" is its reflection in the physical realm.

all your problems or perceived causes of suffering or unhappiness were miraculously removed for you today, but you had not become more present, more conscious, you would soon find yourself with a similar set of problems or causes of suffering, like a shadow that follows you wherever you go. Ultimately