Quotes about Awareness

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.

To discover who you really are, you must go beyond who you think you are. To find peace, you must go beyond fear. To experience unconditional love, you must go beyond conditional love, the kind that comes and goes.

By taking explicit notice of breathing patterns, listening with intention to your heartbeat, or reciting a phrase in your mind, infinite possibilities present themselves.

The miracle of love is that feeling a grain of love for another person can suddenly reveal the divine. Such a tiny shift of perception is needed to regain infinity.

Finally, the Kingdom of God could never be one thing. It had to serve too many purposes and was entangled in too many aspects of traditional religion. I think the only way to solve the riddles posed by the Kingdom of God is to say that God exists in different places depending on your level of consciousness. This becomes critical on the spiritual path, because as your own awareness shifts, God does, too.