Quotes on Awareness\Mindfulness...

[Xan]

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Look past your thoughts, so you may drink the pure nectar of This Moment.

- Rumi
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[Xan]

oops double post

[Aethera]

Originally Posted by Xan

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Look past your thoughts, so you may drink the pure nectar of This Moment.

- Rumi
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That's a very nice quote, Rumi has a lot of nice quotes.

[Aethera]

“There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen.”-Rumi

[ajay00]

When each thought absorbs your attention completely, it means you identify with the voice in your head. Thought then becomes invested with a sense of self. This is the ego, a mind-made "me." That mentally constructed self feels incomplete and precarious. That's why fearing and wanting are its predominant emotions and motivating forces.~ Eckhart Tolle


… the ego's need to be periodically in conflict with something or someone in order to strengthen its sense of separation between me and the other, without which it cannot survive. ~ Eckhart Tolle


Ego is a ghost who is terrified of dying.~ Mooji


You are not the voice in your mind, but the one who is aware of it.~ Eckhart Tolle

[ajay00]

To remain unconscious of being is to be trapped within an ego-driven wasteland of conflict, strife, and fear that only seems customary. ~ Adyashanti


The more unconscious individuals, groups, or nations are, the more likely it is that egoic pathology will assume the form of physical violence. Violence is a primitive but still very widespread way in which the ego attempts to assert itself, to prove itself right or another wrong. With very unconscious people, arguments can easily lead to physical violence. - Eckhart Tolle


Naturally, selfishness is always destructive. Desire and fear, both are self-centred states. Between desire and fear anger arises, with anger hatred, with hatred passion for destruction. War is hatred in action, organised and equipped with all the instruments of death.~ Nisargadatta Maharaj


The moment you become aware of the ego in you, it is strictly speaking no longer the ego, but just an old, conditioned mind-pattern. Ego implies unawareness. Awareness and ego cannot coexist. ~ Eckhart Tolle

[ajay00]

The mind is a bundle of thoughts. The thoughts arise because there is the thinker. The thinker is the ego. The ego, if sought, will automatically vanish. The ego and the mind are the same. The ego is the root-thought from which all other thoughts arise.~ Ramana Maharshi,


"The mind is maya. Reality lies beyond the mind. So long as the mind functions there is duality, maya, etc. Once it is transcended the Reality shines forth. Although it is said to shine forth Self-effulgence is the Self." ~ Ramana Maharshi


Whatever harm an enemy may do to an enemy, or a hater to a hater, an ill-directed mind inflicts on oneself a greater harm. Neither mother, father, nor any other relative can do one greater good than one’s own well-directed mind. ~ Buddha ( Dhammapada 42-43)

For him who has conquered the mind, the mind is the best of friends; but for one who has failed to do so, his mind will remain the greatest enemy.~ Krishna ( BG: 6.6)


Being aware is being aware of one's own mind and the games it plays on itself. ~Robin Macnaughton


Awareness takes over from thinking. Instead of being in charge of your life, thinking becomes the servant of awareness.~ Eckhart Tolle

Thanks, some great quotes, ajay00.

[BigJohn]

What is necessary to change a person
is to change his awareness of himself.

                                       Abraham Maslow

[BigJohn]

It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires
which gives a nation the feeling
that it has a mission and a destiny.


                                       Eric Hoffer