Quotes About Awareness

The ego is like a clever monkey, which can co-opt anything, even the most spiritual practices, so as to expand itself. (155)

Quoting Father Seraphim: Our life hangs only by a breath. It is the thread that links you to the Father, the Source, which brought you into being. Be conscious of this thread, and go where you will. (27)

C]hange your thinking, your interpretation of he world, change the way you see! To change the way you see is to change the world. (50)

May your passion be the kernel of corn stuck between your molars, always reminding you there's something to tend to.

I need neither future nor past, but to learn to take today not too fast.

You are only a disciple because your eyes are closed. The day you open them you will see there is nothing you can learn from me or anyone. What then is a Master for? To make you see the uselessness of having one. Anthony de Mello

Both In and Out of the Game   Apart from the pulling and hauling stands what I am, Stands amused, complacent, compassionating, idle, unitary, Looks down, is erect, or bends an arm on an impalpable certain rest, Looking with side-curved head curious what will come next, Both in and out of the game and watching and wondering at it.   Walt Whitman

Only themselves understand themselves, and the like of themselves, As Souls only understand Souls.   Walt Whitman

It's like I can hum a few bars but I have forgotten most of the words. I can't stand in line at the grocery and carry on a normal conversation if it gets much past the weather.

Try to take it one step at a time. Even looking two steps ahead can be very intimidating, know what I mean? Breathe more deeply, drink more water, meditate more often. Take it easy. You're not struggling to climb from hell into heaven, you're just having an in-the-body experience. It's not evil, it's just life, and when it's over, you die; easy as falling off a log.

Self-deceit is the hardest habit to break cuz it tells us we ain't self-deceived.

It's very simple: If Buddhism is about awakening, people should be waking up. If it's not about awakening, they should change the name.

What do we know for sure? That's the real question. That's what the cogito is. That's what solipsism is. This isn't theory. This isn't belief or faith. This is the basic fact of existence. It's all about figuring out exactly what we know for certain as opposed to everything else. It's truly amazing that something so glaringly obvious and irrefutable is so universally ignored by science and philosophy and religion.

There's no overestimating our ability to avoid making eye contact with the obvious.

The point isn't to make yourself feel that you're a part of everything, but to stop for one minute insisting with every thought and feeling that you're not.

What do you know? The answer is: I Am.

Truth is a uniquely challenging pursuit because the very thing that wants it is the only thing in the way of it.

Here's all you need to know to become enlightened: Sit down, shut up, and ask yourself what's true until you know.

The price. Of truth. Is everything.

I want to stop not knowing who and what and where I am. I want to stop being confused and unclear. I want to stop pretending lies are true and that I understand things when I don't. I want to stop playing make-believe and find out what's real.

You observe events and you allow the flow of things to do the steering and you go where you go.

Ask yourself. Who am I? If you do it, you will become enlightened. There is no possible alternative. The only way self-inquiry can fail to work is if you fail to do it.

Nobody likes to have their cherished beliefs dumped on, but dumping on cherished beliefs is the name of the game.

The misconception about enlightenment stems from, or is at least compounded by, the fact that most of the world's recognized experts on the subject of enlightenment are not enlightened.