“The birth of a new fact is always a wonderful thing to experience. It's dualistically called a "discovery" because of the presumption that it has an existence independent of anyone's awareness of it. When it comes along, it always has, at first, a low value. Then, depending on the value-looseness of the observer and the potential quality of the fact, its value increases, either slowly or rapidly, or the value wanes and the fact disappears.” FirstsFactsValuesExistenceQualityWonderfulAwarenessBirthLowsDiscoveryIncreaseIndependentDisappearWonderful ThingsObserversPresumptionLooseness Author:Robert M. Pirsig
“When a human being becomes so still that they begin to lose awareness of their gender, and they are simply looking into that abyss where there is no notion of self whatsoever, the world disappears. And that's really the only place to go. It's the only place to remain.” WorldHumansStillsSelfLiteratureLosesHuman BeingsAwarenessSelf AwarenessNotionGenderDisappearAbyssPlaces To Go Author:Andrew Cohen
“Responsibility is awareness, alertness, consciousness. Ego is just unconsciousness. They cannot coexist. As you grow more conscious you grow more towards light, and anything belonging to the world of darkness starts disappearing. Ego is nothing but darkness.” WorldLightGrowsConsciousnessResponsibilityDarknessAwarenessEgoConsciousDisappearBelongingCoexistUnconsciousnessAlertness Author:Rajneesh
“When a daughter loses a mother, the intervals between grief responses lengthen over time, but her longing never disappears. It always hovers at the edge of her awareness, prepared to surface at any time, in any place, in the least expected ways.” WayMotherLosesGriefAwarenessDaughterLongingPreparedResponseEdgesSurfaceDisappearExpectedIntervals Book:Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss, 20th Anniversary Edition Source: Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss, 20th Anniversary Edition
“Man is literally split in two: he has an awareness of his own splendid uniqueness in that he sticks out of nature with a towering majesty, and yet he goes back into the ground a few feet in order blindly and dumbly to rot and disappear forever.” MenTwoOrderForeverFeetAwarenessSticksDisappearSplitsUniquenessMajestySplendidDenial Of Death Book:The Denial of Death Source: The Denial of Death
“The truest mark of being born with great qualities is being born without envy. Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld That awareness is my teaching. Never fight with greed, ego, anger, jealousy, hatred - all those enemies that the religions have been telling you, 'Fight with them, crush them, kill them. You cannot kill them, you cannot crush them, you cannot fight with them; all that you can do is just be aware of them.' And the moment you are aware, they are gone. In the light, the darkness simply disappears.” Has BeensMomentsLightFightingCan DoBornQualityEnemyDarknessGoneTeachingAwarenessEgoHatredMarkGreedEnvyDisappearJealousyCrushTruestGreat QualitiesYour Jealous Author:Rajneesh
“The ultimate meditation is: surrender to reality. The more you fight, the more you are in conflict with it, the more you will be a loser. In deep surrender, the ego disappears. And when the ego is not there, for the first time you become aware of that which has always been there.” FirstsRealitySpiritualFightingMeditationAwarenessConflictEgoLosingFirst TimeUltimateDisappearSurrenderDeepLoserMystic Author:Rajneesh
“Bad Gardens copy, good gardens create, great gardens transcend. What all great gardens have in common are their ability to pull the sensitive viewer out of him or herself and into the garden, so completely that the separate self-sense disappears entirely, and at least for a brief moment one is ushered into a nondual and timeless awareness. A great garden, in other words, is mystical no matter what its actual content.” SelfMatterMomentsSpiritReligionSpiritualityAbilityCommonAwarenessGardenNo Matter WhatDisappearSeparationSensitiveCopiesGardeningTimelessMysticalViewersBrief MomentsGreat Garden Author:Ken Wilber
“Meditation means: remain as relaxed as you are in deep sleep and yet alert. Keep awareness there; let thoughts disappear but awareness has to be retained. And this is not difficult: it is just that we have not tried it, that's all. It is like swimming: if you have not tried it, it looks very difficult; it looks very dangerous too. And you cannot believe how people can swim because you simply drown! But once you have tried a little bit it comes easily; it is very natural.” PeopleIfsBelieveLooksMeanLittlesBitsDifficultNaturalSleepMeditationAwarenessDangerousLittle BitDisappearSwimSwimmingRelaxedDeep Sleep Author:Rajneesh
“People are living in unconsciousness, doing all kinds of things in unconsciousness. Everybody is an unconscious robot. We are just pretending that we are conscious; we are not conscious. The moment you become conscious, all unconscious actions disappear from your life. Your life starts moving in a new dimension. Your each act comes out of inner clarity; your each response is virtuous, is virtue. To live unconsciously is to live in sin; to live consciously is to be virtuous, is to be religious. And to live in total awareness is to be a buddha, is to be a christ.” PeopleKindMomentsActionMovingChristReligiousSinVirtueAwarenessConsciousResponseDisappearAll KindsClarityUnconsciousDimensionsPretendingVirtuousRobotsMoving InUnconsciousness Author:Rajneesh
“Right awareness is awareness of one's own being in its totality: all that is good and all that is bad. But as you become aware, the bad starts disappearing - just as when you bring light into the room, the darkness disappears. When light is in the room, darkness cannot exist there. Sin is darkness, forgetfulness, unconsciousness.” LightSinRoomsDarknessAwarenessDisappearForgetfulnessTotalityUnconsciousness Author:Rajneesh
“One day you will disappear on a funeral pyre - just into nothingness, as smoke. Don't get attached to anything. This attachment takes you away from your real being; you become focused on the thing to which you are attached. Your awareness gets lost in things, in money, in people, in power. And there are a thousand and one things, the whole thick jungle around you, to be lost in. Remember, non-attachment is the secret of finding yourself, then awareness can turn inwards because you don't have anything outside to catch hold of. It is free, and in this freedom you can know your self-nature.” PeopleKnowsRealSelfWholeRememberTurnsLostSecretOne ThingAwarenessOne DayThousandFindingsFocusedDisappearSmokeFinding YourselfAttachmentFuneralThickNothingnessJungle Author:Rajneesh
“Just by being aware, thoughts start disappearing. There is no need to fight. Your awareness is enough to destroy them. And when the mind is empty, the temple is ready. And inside the temple the only god worth placing is silence. So those three words you have to remember: relaxation, thoughtlessness, silence. And if these three words are no more words to you but become experiences, your life will be transformed.” IfsNeedsMindEnoughRememberFightingThreeSilenceAwarenessReadyEmptyDisappearTemplesTransformedRelaxationThree WordsThoughtlessness Author:Rajneesh