Quotes About Awareness

You want me to talk about love, to give you a hold, something to feel, to admire or obtain. I will not give you a straw to grasp, and in this emptiness you will be taken by yourself. You are love so don't try to be a lover.

When you become responsive to the solicitations of silence, you may be called to explore the invitation. This exploration is a kind of laboratory. You may sit and observe the coming and going of perceptions. You remain present to them but do not follow them. Following a thought is what maintains it. If you remain present without becoming an accomplice, agitation slows down through lack of fuel. In the absence of agitation you are taken by the resonance of stillness.

When timeless moments solicit you, accept the invitation. Go deep within it, until you find yourself in your absence.

Welcoming, openness, is the nature of life.

The real quest begins when this not-knowing ceases to be an agnostic concept and becomes a living experience.

The world is directed towards the perceiver, it celebrates the ultimate perceiver. He who is established in the Self is in no way interested in theologies and cosmologies.

You are your own nearest environment, so begin with yourself.

When you act you are one with the action, it is only afterwards that the ego appropriates the act from which it was absent, and says "I have done this." At the moment of acting there is only acting, without an actor.

Be knowingly silent as often as you can and you will no longer be a prey to the desire to be this or that. You will discover in the everyday events of life the deep meaning behind the fulfilment of the whole, for the ego is totally absent.

First you recognize stillness, then you are it. You feel yourself as autonomous, that is, not identified with what is all around you. And now true relation is possible.

Advaita is not a system, a religion or technique. It is not even a philosophy. It is simply the truth.

once energy is no longer projected in strategy and end-gaining it returns to a state of equilibrium where everything remains peaceful and points towards silent awareness, within which all thoughts and perceptions come and go.

achievements. The world is directed towards the perceiver, it celebrates the ultimate perceiver. He who is established in the Self is in no way interested in theologies and cosmologies.

In welcoming all that is, we live our freedom, openness, directionlessness, desirelessness.

My aesthetic is that of the sniper on the roof.

iGen'ers are addicted to their phones, and they know it. Many also know it's not entirely a good thing. It's clear that most teens (and adults) would be better off if they spent less time with screens. "Social media is destroying our lives," one teen told Nancy Jo Sales in her book American Girls. "So why don't you go off it?" Sales asked. "Because then we would have no life," the girl said.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

I would like to say to people, open your eyes and find beauty where you normally don't expect it.

In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact.

What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see.

According to Claparède, feelings appoint a goal for behaviour, while intelligence merely provides the means (the "technique"). But there exists an awareness of ends as well as of means, and this continually modifies the goals of action.

Things changed. Things that defined your life altered and shifted while you weren't paying attention. Sometimes you didn't even notice until you missed them.

Today I must be very careful, today I have left my armor at home.