Quotes about Awareness

Inside stillness lies a treasure. It can be opened using nothing more than silent awareness - the gaze of the soul. If you wish to open your soul's treasure, regard the present moment as a uniquely precious thing - the still point around which the world revolves.

An integral being knows without going, sees without looking, and accomplishes without doing.

The real business of life, however, is to find out who you really are.

When you are living the truth of one reality, every secret reveals itself without effort or struggle.

At any moment of the day, some desire is in the process of coming true. Old seeds we planted (and perhaps forgot about) are bringing results, mixed in with the beginnings of larger results to come. The point is to make your children aware that the universe (or spirit or God) is always listening; none of us is alone. We are constantly being heeded.

Spiritual teachers tell us if you want to know the state of your personal consciousness, just look around and see what is happening to you. If you want to know the state of the collective consciousness, just look around at what is happening in the world. At any given point in time your personal reality is synchronistically, coincidentally orchestrated by your sense of self.

Reality is an interpretation.

The idol of yourself is the mother of all idols.

Knowledge has organizing power inherent in it. It is simply enough to know, to be aware of the principles;

Of course he could still conjure up the old faces. But they didn't return on their own anymore. In order to see images of Channa or Suddhodana, he would ask to see them. "Learn to use your memories," he told the younger bikkhus. "Don't let them use you.

Job knew that Satan's greatest power was not that he could inflict evil. His greatest power was to make the sons of God forget who they were.

The problem with time is that we are always making it personal.