Quotes about Awareness

We have become human doings more than human beings, and the verb "rest," as Jesus uses it, is largely foreign to us.

No problem can be solved by the same consciousness that caused it in the first place.

We don't think ourselves into a new way of living. We live ourselves into a new way of thinking.

Before the truth 'sets you free', it tends to make you miserable.

Know that things are okay as they are. This moment is as perfect as it can be. The saints called this the "sacrament of the present moment.

If we do not transform our pain, we will most assuredly transmit it.

Once we begin to learn the contemplative mind, we realize it is almost the natural way of seeing—and we have unlearned it! It is quite natural, as we see in children before the age of six or seven when they start judging and analyzing and distinguishing things one from another.

In response to their question "When will the Kingdom come?" he tells them that Ultimate Reality is "not here and not there," taking us away from our typical attachment to time. "For the Ultimate Reality is 'within you'!" (Luke 17:21).

The opposite of contemplation is not action, it is reaction.

We see what we are ready to see, expect to see, and even desire to see.

It seems that in the spiritual world, we do not really find something until we first lose it, ignore it, miss it, long for it, choose it, and personally find it again--but now on a new level.

In the end, we do not so much reclaim what we have lost as discover a significantly new self in and through the process. Until we are led to the limits of our present game plan and find it insufficient, we will not search out or find the real source, the deep well, or the constantly flowing stream.