Quotes on Awareness\Mindfulness...
 

All of spirituality is contained in that one word: Awareness. — Mata Amritanandamayi


Proceed on life’s journey with awareness. — Mata Amritanandamayi


If I were to summarize it ( Guruma's teachings) into one thing, it would be awareness. How to develop that awareness-insight. I am not referring to awareness at the level of the mind as seen in mountaineers or astronauts. A slip in awareness and the mountaineer can be buried alive under snow or the astronaut blasted away from his ship. But that awareness does not transform them or cause them to disassociate from the mind and its functions. To be an observer is to be totally neutral and to be a witness. And somewhere, I would add, the awareness of who I am, or what the truth is.-- Anandamurti Gurumaa


How to do meditation, many people ask me. Don't do anything, to just go into thoughtless awareness. Try to go to the thoughtless awareness. If you can get into that condition of thoughtless awareness you've done your job, because that's the point where you are with the truth, with the reality, with the joy, with everything that is so fundamental.-- Nirmala Devi



When you are in thoughtless awareness, you must know that you are in the kingdom of God and His people, His arrangements, His consciousness, is going to look after you. -- Nirmala Devi

You can become fully aware only when you are living in the moment.
- Barry Long


The moment is your only duty. Your duty at any time in your life is to do what you have to do from moment to moment. - Barry Long


There is nothing we need to do or achieve, beyond the fullness of the present moment. - Metta Zetty

When the robot mind is mastered, undisciplined thinking ceases and is replaced by awareness. Awareness can know love. You can only experience the new when you are aware, when you are without thought. - Barry Long


When the heart is empty of the things of the mind, and the mind is empty of thought, then is there Love. That which is empty is inexhaustible. - Jiddu Krishnamurti


The consciousness in you and the consciousness in me, apparently two, really one, seek unity and that is love. - Nisargadatta Maharaj

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.
~Nhat Hanh

Awareness is who we are and forgetting that leads to suffering. -Vicki Woodyard


Being unconscious means you’re lost in thought, in the pictures and stories your mind is producing. You have entered the made-up content of your mind and are occupying it as if it were reality itself. Your ego is invested in this content as being real and important, and very likely as a result you are experiencing some kind of emotion (stirred up by the thinking). You have forgotten that all of it is the product of your mind (even if its content appears to be true or important). As a result, you are missing actual reality, what’s happening in the now — including that you are inventing the thoughts. - JAN FRASIER


Your true nature is awareness and not what your mind is producing. - Burt Harding

In Zen, it is said right view is no view.

This 'view' thing means taking a situation, filtering it through one's mind and putting a personal spin on it. In other words, make stuff up. Then you can't see what is actually going on -- only a limited interpretation of it. The two will inevitably clash and cause suffering.

Zen is to perceive everything as it is, sans adding or subtracting. No expectations and no disagreements with others.

Suffering will disappear.

~anon

Whatever worldly joy there is arises from wishing for others' happiness.
Whatever worldly suffering there is arises from wishing for your own happiness.

Shantideva - A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life

There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted. ~ B.K.S. Iyengar


Awareness means grasping life just the way it is, without contamination by mental projections. ~ Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev


There is so much filtering going on that sometimes you won’t see things that are there. You only have to look at a paranoid person who’s always feeling threatened by something that isn’t there, who’s constantly interpreting reality in terms of certain experiences of the past or certain conditioning that he or she has had. ~ Anthony de Mello


Most people do not see their beliefs. Instead, their beliefs tell them what they see. This is the simple difference between clarity and confusion. – Matthew Kahn


The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory. ~ Thomas Jefferson


It was incredible to me that members of one community could kill members of another not for anything personal that they did but simply based on their identity. ~ Amartya Sen


Ego is conditioned state of mind where the reality is forgotten. Wisdom is freedom of consciousness; here the truth is realised. ~ Maharshi Vedathiri


Pay attention to your experience and you will discover that emotion follows thought and belief. Awareness precedes all. ~ Metta Zetty


The dissolution of belief in being a seeker is via naked seeing, where the energy supporting belief is removed naturally or overthrown by the clarity of naked seeing. Awareness is self-aware (without an entity) and naked awareness is non conceptual. ~ Gilbert Schultz

Dr. Mikao Usui:

Each of us has the potential of being given a gift by the divine, which results in the body and soul becoming unified … a great many people will experience the blessings of the divine … Through it, the human being will first be made healthy, and then peace of mind and joy in life will be increased’.

Albert Einstein:

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mystical. It is the source of all true art and science.

Mark Twain:

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

Thanks

I didn't have much of an imagination as a child, and now, at 28, I am opening up to having one. It's been interesting.

The Self, our Being, is awareness. - Sri Muruganar


Remember your Self always and everywhere. - George Gurdjieff


Don't ever lose awareness of your Being. - Sri Ramana Maharshi


Abiding in your own Being is also holy company. - Nisargadatta Maharaj

The Self, our Being, is awareness. - Sri Muruganar


Nearly all mankind is more or less unhappy because nearly all do not know the true Self. Real happiness abides in Self-knowledge alone. All else is fleeting. To know one’s Self is to be blissful always. - Ramana Maharshi


“Man’s search for happiness is an unconscious search for his true Self. The true Self is imperishable; therefore when a man finds it, he finds a happiness which does not come to an end.” - Ramana Maharshi


This world is trapped in the well of suffering. What is this suffering due to? This suffering stems from ignorance of the Self. All suffering in this world is because of ignorance. This ignorance leads to raag (attachment) and dwesh
(abhorrence) relentlessly and suffering is experienced as a consequence. Only Gnan can cure this suffering. There is no other remedy. Gnan insulates you from suffering. -- Ambalal Muljibhai Patel


Purpose of suffering is to connect you to your Self (Awareness). It indicates that you got carried away by all the transient things around you. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

"The only evil is ignorance, unawareness, failure to see our authentic identity. To the degree that we learn to live from our true identity, our pains and follies fall away, to be re- placed with peace and wisdom." – Vernon Howard

Awareness is who we are and forgetting that leads to suffering. - Vicki Woodyard


Suffering always runs along the tracks of mechanical thought, so by permitting consciousness to interrupt mechanical thought, we learn the secret for ending suffering. - Vernon Howard

Happiness is the function of your consciousness when it is awake, unhappiness is the function of your consciousness when it is asleep. Unconsciousness is your mirror burdened with much dust and luggage and the past. Osho


To live unconsciously is to be in hell, and to live consciously is to be in heaven. - Osho


One unseen contradiction in our own consciousness. Only our awakened awareness can end the heartaches inherent in remaining spiritually asleep. - Guy Finley


When you are suffering, when you are unhappy, stay totally with what is Now( present moment awareness). Unhappiness or problems cannot survive in the Now.- Eckhart Tolle

Thought alone, when it is no longer connected with the much vaster realm of consciousness, quickly becomes barren, insane, destructive. ~ Eckhart Tolle


When scientific or rational thinking is grounded in presence it has a completely different outcome. It can never be monstrous. ~ Jean Klein

The average man is ruled by the explosions of his emotions, and cannot think clearly. - Yogananda


Conflict is always emotional. – Sri Sri Ravi Shankar


Emotions arise from thoughts which arise, in turn, from foundational belief structures about the nature of Reality and your own innate identity.- Metta Zetty


The conflict in the world is not between good and evil, as is so often projected. The conflict is always between one man’s belief and another man’s belief, whether it is within the family or between nations. The moment you believe something, you are in conflict with the opposing belief. You can postpone it with moderate talk. But conflict is inevitable. – Jaggi Vasudev


Ego is complete identification with thought and emotion. – Eckhart Tolle


Be aware that what you think, to a large extent, creates the emotions that you feel. See the link between your thinking and your emotions. Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them. – Eckhart Tolle

Vedanta contains eternal truths that are meant for the entire humanity. Their knowledge is neither emotional nor intellectual, but represents the actual reality that is. It teaches us that preoccupation with the past and the future makes for an agitated present. And as our actions are the greatest expression of our thoughts, it is not surprising that the world we live in is as turbulent as it is. -- Swami Purushottamananda

Emotions and even thoughts become depersonalized through awareness. Their impersonal nature is recognized. There is no longer a self in them. They are just human emotions, human thoughts. Your entire personal history, which is ultimately no more than a story, a bundle of thoughts and emotions, becomes of secondary importance and no longer occupies the forefront of your consciousness. It no longer forms the basis for your sense of identity. You are the light of Presence, the awareness that is prior to and deeper than any thoughts and emotions. -- Eckhart Tolle


Walk into a situation consciously and you will be able to walk out of it harmlessly. - Vernon Howard


Everything will turn out successfully when the mind is not agitated. - Yogar Swamigal


If I am agitated, I am wrong. - Vernon Howard

Awareness is who we are and forgetting that leads to suffering. -Vicki Woodyard

“Intuition is the art of the moment. Intuition is always in the moment, in the here and now. While the intellect always moves like the pendulum of a clock between the memories of the past and the fantasies of the future, intuition is always in the moment, always in the here and now. The more we develop our inner being, the inner source of love and truth, the inner quality of being here and now, the more we also have access to our intuition.” - Swami Dhyan Giten


“Intuition is a capacity of our heart. Our heart is the door to allowing Existence to guide us, instead of being directed by our ideas, desires and expectations. Since the days of Aristotle’s, we have been taught that logic is the only way to reach a solution. But while logic works in a step-by-step-process to reach a solution, intuition simply takes a quantum leap to a solution without any intermediate steps.” - Swami Dhyan Giten

When you love the Self (awareness) and nothing else, you go beyond the selfish and the unselfish. You will solve not only your own problems but also the problems of humanity. You will know what to do. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj


By maintaining continuous awareness, we can make the right choices about our environment and the objects with which our senses come into contact.
~ Swami Ramakrishnananda Puri

Thank you for this thread, ajay00!

JL

‘Intuition means having the right thought at the right moment.’ ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar


'Our consciousness itself is Shaastra (scripture), so if we listen to our consciousness, our intuition, we will function in accord with nature.'~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar




You are welcome. Glad you enjoyed it. :smile:

If I don't mind it don't matter.

Thanks......

I think this is a good quote on mindfulness~

"Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people."-Dennis Prager

Mindfulness is a way of training your mind to concentrate on the present, in order to feel calm and improve your mental state. ( Collins English Dictionary)


“Life is available only in the present moment.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh


“No one has ever lived in the past or the future, only the now.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh


“The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh


“While you are walking, smile and be in the here and now, and you will transform that place into paradise.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Under the obsessive thoughts and plans, under the emotions, positive and negative, there is an ocean of peace. ~Gangaji


To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment. ~ Eckhart Tolle


We are completely unaware of our true nature because we identify ourselves with our body, our emotions and our thoughts, thus losing sight of our unchanging centre, which is pure consciousness. ~ Dr. Jean Klein

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. ~ Elbert Hubbard


When one is alert, one can transform poison into medicine. ~ Swami Sukhabodhananda


There is no greater force than awareness. When one increases awareness, even a poison can turn into a medicine and with no awareness a medicine can become a poison. ~ Swami Sukhabodhananda


Meditation makes you aware - that your inner attitude determines your happiness . -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

“The pollution of the planet is only an outward reflection of an inner psychic pollution: millions of unconscious individuals not taking responsibility for their inner space.” ~ Eckhart Tolle


I don’t want to tell anyone how much water they should use or shouldn’t use. But whatever you do – make it as conscious as possible. If you become conscious, you will only use as much as you need to. This will make a world of difference. Right now, we are behaving as if we’re the last generation on the planet. ~ Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev


When you live consciously, your response to situation that arise will be agile and appropriate. ~ Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev