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Awareness Quotes


"A society that lives by worldly principles is slowly moving towards a global crisis in all areas."


"There exists a universal order that we each play a distinct role in carrying out. Light always struggles to emerge from darkness. Each of us is the bearer of our own lantern. We find ourselves when we realize our place in an interconnected world. The struggle to pierce the darkness that shrouds us from realizing a state of perceptive awareness is the biggest part of both our individual story and our communal storyline."


"You gotta be in the NOW to create and experience the WOW!"



"To lose awareness of what is helpful or harmful in the worldly life is moh (Illusory vision & attachment)."


"Perhaps it is possible to discover more in silence than in speech. Or perhaps it is only that those who are silent among us learn to listen."


"Eating more consciously now feels like a way of being. I actually think about how my food got to my plate."


"We all have an inner intuition for authenticity, for matched up internal and external truth. When we detect this, we feel immediate comfort. We know truth when we hear it."


"Spend time understanding who you are, after all the only person your ever going to truly live with; is yourself."


"The grandest form of delusion is misconstruing the obvious. Persons with an open, inquisitive, and intuitive mind can detect hidden clues that aggressive, narrow-minded, and impatient rationalist fail to perceive."


"Funny, though, I don't feel too bad."


"I wish I could fly.I wish I were rich.I wish I had more time."But you can, and you are, and you do; I wish you would open your eyes."



"The 'information' one receives from within, shows credit [punya] and debit [paap] karmas. All the Knowledge-Vision is present within. Everything can be Known from within but only as long as you do not create obstructions. If you were to cross-over [violate] it, then the 'information' will stop coming through."


"Always, the eye sees more than the mind can comprehend, and we go through life self-blinded to much that lies before us. We want a simple world, but we live in a magnificently complex one, and rather than open ourselves to it, we perceive the world through filters that make it less daunting."



"One cannot see one's own mistakes in matters where his interest lies."


"The human species " mammalian primates though undoubtedly (s)he is, and made out of the dust of exploded suns - does have the need for the transcendent, the numinous, even the ecstatic. I wouldn't trust anyone who hadn't had this. This has to do with landscape, light, music, love and an awareness of the transience of all things, and the melancholy that invests all this. So it isn't just gaping happily at the sunset while listening to music, and doing that while knowing that it can't last very long. But there is no need for the supernatural in this at all. There is no dimension of the supernatural of which this gives one a share."


"Think before you click. If people do not know you personally and if they cannot see you as you type, what you post online can be taken out of context if you are not careful in the way your message is delivered."


"If you closely scrutinize relationships everywhere that struggle, in most cases, it is due to lack of self-awareness of one or both parties..."


"Too many of us take great pains with what we ingest through our mouths, and far less with what we partake of through our ears and eyes."


"Yes, stop your beliefs for a few moments now and then and Be-Life."


"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."


"You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days."


"Ignorance is in each cell of our body and our consciousness. It's like a drop of ink diffused in a glass of water."


"Our actions reflect the distilled wisdom that we possess of the innermost self. Our personal philosophy is an activated way of living. A peaceful person delves the truest definition of the self by maintaining an attentive state of conscious awareness and ceases escaping from reality with mindless diversions. Self-inquiry is the principal method to remove ignorance, increase self-awareness, and abide in a tranquil existence."


"There is a magnificent, beautiful, wonderful painting in front of you! It is intricate, detailed, a painstaking labor of devotion and love! The colors are like no other, they swim and leap, they trickle and embellish! And yet you choose to fixate your eyes on the small fly which has landed on it! Why do you do such a thing?"


"You do not necessarily lose concentration, you only allow something else to take control of a greater portion of your attentiveness and attention at any given moment of time."


"Being a keen observer, I would think to myself, who is approachable? Who is someone I'd like to know? Who is putting out welcoming vibes?"


"Query: How contrive not to waste one's time?Answer: By being fully aware of it all the while.Ways in which this can be done: By spending one's days on an uneasy chair in a dentist's waiting-room; by remaining on one's balcony all of a Sunday afternoon; by listening to lectures in a language on doesn't know; by traveling by the longest and least-convenient train routes, and of course standing all the way; by lining up at the box-office of theaters and then not buying a seat; and so forth."


"For you not to waste or spend your life, you must first begin to see time and life correctly. You must first understand that time is life and life is time."


"To see a candle's light one must take it into a dark place."


"Vigilance of the wisest kind is to incessantly remain open to the reality that what I 'see' is but a single thread and solitary shard of what 'is', for to assume otherwise is to surrender the wisdom of vigilance to the decay of ignorance."


"If you live with awareness, you will find love all around you."


"Higher consciousness means your self consciousness ceases to exist, you become the ocean of life and a part of the universe."


"I wanted to call a time out, to demand that everybody just STOP until I could understand everything."


"If you would listen, sir, in the sense of being aware of your conflicts and contradictions without forcing them into any particular pattern of thought, perhaps they might altogether cease."


"If you sleep on the train, you will miss your station; if you sleep at the station, you will miss your train! You can control your fate only when you are awake!"


"Oh, to awake from dreaming!"


"Sometime people are disempowered because they subconsciously identify themselves by their temporary circumstances instead of connecting with their innate value and truth."


"Judging is preventing us from understanding a new truth. Free yourself from the rules of old judgments and create the space for new understanding."
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