Quotes About Awareness

Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at the moment

plus on est à même de respecter et d'accepter le moment présent, plus on est libéré de la douleur, de la souffrance et du mental.

It's all there is. 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.

Spiritual realization is to see clearly that what I perceive, experience, think, or feel is ultimately not who I am, that I cannot find myself in all those things that continuously pass away.

You are not the ego, so when you become aware of the ego in you, it does not mean you know who you are - it means you know who you are not. But it is through knowing who you are not that the greatest obstacle to truly knowing yourself is removed.

To complain is always nonacceptance to what *is*.

Words, no matter whether they are vocalized and made into sounds or remain unspoken as thoughts, can cast an almost hypnotic spell upon you. You easily lose yourself in them, become hypnotized into implicitly believing that when you have attached a word to something, you know what it is. The fact is: You don't know what it is.

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. [...] If you cannot feel your emotions, if you are cut off from them, you will eventually experience them on a purely physical level, as a physical problem or symptom.

Identification with the mind gives it more energy; observation of the mind withdraws energy from it. 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 The energy that is withdrawn from the mind turns into presence.

As you listen to the thought, you feel a conscious presence — your deeper self — behind or underneath the thought, as it were. The thought then loses its power over you and quickly subsides, because you are no longer energizing the mind through identification with it. This is the beginning of the end of involuntary and compulsive thinking.

To create suffering without recognizing it -- this is the essence of unconscious living...

The quicker you are in attaching verbal or mental labels to things, people, or situations, the more shallow and lifeless your reality becomes

watch out for any kind of defensiveness within you, What are you defending? an illusionary identity, an image in your mind,a fictional entity

Judgment is either to confuse someone's unconscious behaviour with who they are or to project your own unconsciousness onto another person and mistake *that* for who they are. If you are alert and present, you can point out behaviour without ego involvement (making the other person wrong).

Underneath the surface appearance, everything is not only connected with everything else, but also with the Source of all life out of which it came. Even a stone, and more easily a flower or a bird, could show you the way back to God, to the Source, to yourself.

Watch out for thoughts that appear to justify or explain this unhappiness but in reality cause it.

The body loves your attention. It is also a potent form of self-healing. Most illnesses creep in when you are not present in the body. If the master is not present in the house, all kinds of shady characters will take up residence there.

Vuélvase intensamente con-sciente del momento presente. Esto es algo profundamente satisfactorio. De esa forma usted aparta la conciencia de la actividad de su mente y crea una brecha de no-mente en la que usted está muy alerta y consciente, pero no pensando. Esa es la esencia de la meditación.

libro Il disagio della civiltà, ma non riconobbe la sua origine e non riuscì a capire che è possibile liberarsene. Questa disfunzione collettiva ha creato una civiltà profondamente infelice

Cuando tu conciencia se dirige hacia fuera, surgen la mente y el mundo. Cuando se dirige hacia dentro, alcanza su propia Fuente y regresa a casa, a lo No Manifestado.

What remains is the light of consciousness in which perceptions, experiences, thoughts, and feelings come and go. That is Being, that is the deeper, true I. When I know myself as that, whatever happens in my life is no longer of absolute but only of relative importance. I honor it, but it loses its absolute seriousness, its heaviness.

Cuando usted aprenda a ser testigo de sus pensamientos y emociones, que es una parte esencial de estar presente, puede quedar sorprendido cuando se dé cuenta por primera vez de la "estática" de fondo de inconsciencia ordinaria que tiene y de qué pocas veces, si acaso alguna, usted está verdaderamente a gusto consigo mismo.

Make the Now the primary focus of your life. Whereas before you dwelt in time and paid brief visits to the Now, have your dwelling place in the Now and pay brief visits to the past and future when required to deal with the practical aspects of your life situation.

Once you can feel what it means to be present, it becomes much easier to simply choose to step out of the time dimension whenever time is not needed for practical purposes and move more deeply into the Now.