Quotes about Awareness

We always have a tendency to see those things that do not exist and to be blind to the great lessons that are right there before our eyes.

In the beginning there was only a small amount of injustice abroad in the world, but everyone who came afterwards added their portion, always thinking it was very small and unimportant, and look where we have ended up today.

We are the ones who create the messes in our heads. It does not come from outside.

If you want to see a rainbow you have to learn to see the rain.

it's best to accept life as it really is and not as I imagined it to be

you only know yourself when you go beyond your limits

If you concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man. You'll see that there is life in the desert, that there are stars in the heavens...Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we're living right now.

When we both experienced the love that consumes, we shared in the Absolute. The Absolute shows each of us who we really are; it is an enormous web of cause and effect, where every small gesture made by one person affects the life of someone else. This morning, that slice of the Absolute was still very much alive in my soul. I was seeing not only you but everything there is in the world, unlimited by space or time.

Everyone is indeed crazy but the craziest are those who don't know they're crazy; they just keep repeating what others tell them to.

All we have to do is understand that we're all here for a reason and to commit ourselves to that. Then we can laugh at our sufferings, large and small and walk fearlessly, aware that each step has meaning

I was not I, I was nothing - and that seemed to me quite marvelous.

You can't measure time the way you measure the distance between two points.