Quotes About Awareness

Being present is always infinitely more powerful than anything one could say or do, although sometimes being present can give rise to words or actions.

Nothing out there will ever satisfy you except temporarily and superficially, but you may need to experience many disillusionments before you realize that truth.

Emotion arises at the place where mind and body meet. It is the body's reaction to your mind — or you might say a reflection of your mind in the body.

The stronger the ego, the more time takes over your life. Almost every thought you think is then concerned with past or future, and your sense of self depends on the past for your identity and on the future for its fulfillment.

DIE TO THE PAST EVERY MOMENT. You don't need it. Only refer to it when it is absolutely relevant to the present.

An] unconscious fear of facing the pain [...] lives in you. But if you don't face it, if you don't bring the light of your consciousness into the pain, you will be forced to relive it again and again.

The mind then creates an obsession with the future as an escape from the unsatisfactory present.

No ser capaz de dejar de pensar es una calamidad terrible, pero no nos damos cuenta de ello así que se considera normal. Este ruido mental incesante nos impide encontrar ese reino de quietud interior que es inseparable del Ser. También

Now remember that an emotion is the body's reaction to your mind.

To be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of past for your identity and future for your fulfillment. It represents the most profound transformation of consciousness that you can imagine.

Whenever an answer, a solution, or a creative idea is needed, stop thinking for a moment by focusing attention on your inner energy field. Become aware of the stillness. When you resume thinking, it will be fresh and creative. In any thought activity, make it a habit to go back and forth every few minutes or so between thinking and an inner kind of listening, an inner stillness. We could say: don't just think with your head, think with your whole body.

Koestler, The Ghost in the Machine

while a thought is in your head, an emotion has a strong physical component and so is primarily felt in the body.

If 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, there is only one problem: the time-bound mind itself.

How to stop creating time? Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living

True change happens within, not without.

It read: 'Danger. All structures are unstable.' I said to my friend, 'That's a profound sutra [sacred scripture].' And we stood there in awe. Once you realize and accept that all structures (forms) are unstable, even the seemingly solid material ones, peace arises within you. This is because the recognition of the impermanence of all forms awakens you to the dimension of the formless within yourself, that which is beyond death.

your dwelling place in the Now and pay

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.

With the seeing comes the power of choice...

So who is the experiencer? You are. And who are you? Consciousness. And what is consciousness? This question cannot be answered. The moment you answer it, you have falsified it, made it into another object. Consciousness, the traditional word for which is spirit, cannot be known in the normal sense of the word, and seeking it is futile.

Así pues el único paso vital en su camino hacia la iluminación es este: aprenda a dejar de identificarse con su mente. Cada

You can improve your life situation, but you cannot improve your life. Life is primary. Life is your deepest inner Being.