Quotes About Awareness

Practice is standing in the flow, whereas theory and analysis observe the flow from a position of separation.

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it." I

Your false self is your role, title, and personal image that is largely a creation of your own mind and attachments. It will and must die in exact correlation to how much you want the Real.

When you are present, you will know the Presence. It is that simple, and it is that hard.

I have never been separate from God, nor can I be, except in my mind.

God comes to you disguised as your life," as my friend Paula D'Arcy so wisely says.

All we can do is keep our egos out of the way, note and weep over our defensive behaviors, keep our various centers from closing down—and the Presence that is surely the Highest Power is then obvious, all-embracing, and immediately effective. The immediate embrace is from God's side.

Encontramos a Dios en nosotros mismos, y nos encontramos a nosotros mismos en Dios.

Contemplation is a spiritual practice that has the potential to heal, and connect us to the source of our being.

Religion, at its best, helps people to bring this foundational divine love into ever-increasing consciousness. In other words, it's more about waking up than about cleaning up.

From eighteen to fifty-five was the unfolding. Then, when it happened at fifty-five, they knew what they were born for. When that moment comes, it is great and it is all synchronicity. We know then that grace is at work and we are not manufacturing our own lives.

Whenever we get defensive or go emotionally up and down, this is a sign that we are attached to a self-image.

The proof that you are a Christian is that you can see Christ everywhere else.

When you look at any other person, a flower, a honeybee, a mountain—anything—you are seeing the incarnation of God's love for you and the universe you call home.

Your True Self is that part of you that knows who you are and whose you are, although largely unconsciously.

Presence is experienced in a participative way, outside the mind.

Because far too many religious folks do not seriously pursue this "reverence humming within them," they do not recognize

Remember, light is not so much what you directly see as that by which you see everything else.

The day of my spiritual awakening was the day I saw and knew I saw all things in God and God in all things. —Mechtild of Magdeburg (1212–1282)

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It is often when the ego is most deconstructed that we can hear things anew and begin some honest reconstruction, even if it is only half heard and halfhearted.

Words and complex rituals almost get in the way at this point. All you can really do is return such Presence with your own presence.

All that each of us can do is to live in the now that is given. We cannot rush the process;

Contemplation is really the change that changes everything—especially, first of all, the seer.