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
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When even one virtue becomes our nature, the mind becomes clean and tranquil. Then there is no need to practice meditation; we will automatically be meditating always. ~ Swami Satchidananda
Wholesome virtuous behavior progressively leads to the foremost.~ Buddha AN 10.1
If you do right, irrespective of what the other does, it will slow down the (turbulent) mind. ~ Rajini Menon
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