Quotes About Awareness

Crown chakra: So hum (pronounced so hum), or simple awareness Forehead/third eye chakra: Om (pronounced ohm) Throat chakra: Ham (pronounced hum) Heart chakra: Yam (pronounced yum) Solar plexus chakra: Ram (pronounced rahm) Sacral chakra: Vam (pronounced vum) Root chakra: Lam (pronounced lum)

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. —Mahatma Gandhi

The scenery changes, the seer remains the same. Your body is just the place your memories call home.

As this life evaporated before his eyes, Siddhartha felt a shiver, as if someone had ripped off his winter coat and left him naked in the cold. But he wasn't naked, and far from dead. Instead of the mask of images and memories, surrounding him on every side was something pure and free: life itself. He couldn't remember who he was. There was nothing left of his fears and dreams, nothing to do, nothing to want. He was simply alive, the breath of the breath, the eye of the eye.

Gautama said. "But I am blessed, because it has taken me only five years to know who I am not.

Through silence, through meditation, and through non-judgment, you will access the first law, the Law of Pure Potentiality.

Brooding on your negative traits isn't going to bring the shadow to light.

In the blink of an eye, as quickly as he had seen ten thousand previous lifetimes, he saw the human predicament. Everyone was asleep, totally unconscious about their true nature. Some slept fitfully, catching scattered glimpses of the truth. But they quickly fell asleep again. They were the fortunate ones. The bulk of human beings had no glimpse of reality.

Who is content simply to be? You too have felt the peace of simply being. Wake up to that, and you will join me in being free.

Words are not brains, you know.

There will be times when you will be in the field without a camera. And, you will see the most glorious sunset or the most beautiful scene that you have ever witnessed. Don't be bitter because you can't record it. Sit down, drink it in, and enjoy it for what it is!

I suppose what's similar about being on actor and being a priest is a certain perception of time. Eternity is a priest's business. But we all live in time. And what I'm doing is trying to make people aware of how the two coexist. That's what religion is, keeping that sense of eternity while being in time; trying to live accordingly. The Kingdom of God is here, now. That's what that's all about.

Cate stared intently at the land, as if trying to wring some knowledge from it, as if she were seeing it for the first time, although in fact it couldn't have been more familiar to her, the type of landscape against which she still judge all others.

It is a kind of geisha containment, a shutteredness, a withdrawal and negation. It's as if she is capable of sensing when people are on the point of knowing who she is and she sends them a subliminal denial.

Absolute is a game with only one player where Absolute forgets itself so it would have a reason to fulfill the motion while returning.

Be aware of the high notes, of the blissful faces and their soft messages, and listen for the silent message of a highly decorated gift.

Either all lights are turned off or one inner light is missing.

Every thought about death takes a moment of life away.

From one bell all the bells toll.

Get out, but don't cause unneeded accidents.

How alive is thought, invisible, yet without thought there is no sight.

Nothing is inanimate; what is the rest is our interpretation.

One hand I extend into myself, the other toward others.

Since there is no real silence, silence will contain all the sounds, all the words, all the languages, all knowledge, all memory.