“Introspection is self-improvement and therefore introspection is self-centeredness. Awareness is not self-improvement. On the contrary, it is the ending of the self, of the “I,” with all its peculiar idiosyncrasies, memories, demands, and pursuits. In introspection there is identification and condemnation. In awareness there is no condemnation or identification; therefore, there is no self-improvement. There is a vast difference between the two.” TwoSelfDifferencesMemoriesAwarenessDemandSelf ImprovementContraryImprovementPursuitPeculiarIntrospectionIdentificationCondemnationIdiosyncrasiesSelf CenterednessCenteredness Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti
“When you completely accept this moment, when you no longer argue with what is, the compulsion to think lessens and is replaced by an alert stillness. You are fully conscious, yet the mind is not labeling this moment in any way... It is a shift from identification with form --the thought or the emotion-- to being and recognizing yourself as that which has no form -- spacious awareness.” ThinkingWayMindMomentsFormEmotionAcceptingAwarenessConsciousArguingStillnessReplacedRecognizingCompulsionIdentificationLabeling Author:Eckhart Tolle
“When the mind is quiet, we come to know ourselves as the pure witness. We withdraw from the experience and its experiencer and stand apart in pure awareness, which is between and beyond the two. The personality, based on self-identification, on imagining itself to be something: 'I am this, I am that', continues, but only as a part of the objective world. Its identification with the witness snaps.” KnowsWorldMindTwoSelfAwarenessPersonalityPureQuietObjectivesWitnessSnapsIdentification Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
“As you rest into stillness more profoundly, awareness becomes free of the mind's compulsive control, contractions, and identifications. Awareness naturally returns to its non-state of absolute unmanifest potential, the silent abyss beyond all knowing.” MindStatesKnowingAwarenessReturnAbsolutesSilentStillnessAbyssIdentificationContractions Author:Adyashanti
“Yoga teaching is that you're not your dark side or your woo-woo, you're pure awareness. Our job is to begin to gain that discrimination and insight so we can separate from our identification.” JobsSidesDarkTeachingAwarenessPureYogaGainsInsightDiscriminationDark SideIdentification Author:Gary Kraftsow
“The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, person and family history, belief systems, and often nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you.” PersonsBeliefSocialReligiousAbilityCommonKnowledgeSpecialAwarenessEgoSelf AwarenessPossessionAppearanceRecognitionCollectivesIdentificationBelief SystemsPower Of NowFamily HistorySpiritual AwarenessEducation And KnowledgeSocial StatusPhysical AppearanceNationalisticStillness SpeaksPower Of Now Book Author:Eckhart Tolle
“Each time you meet an old emotional pattern with presence, your awakening to truth can deepen. There’s less identification with the self in the story and more ability to rest in the awareness that is witnessing what’s happening. You become more able to abide in compassion, to remember and trust your true home. Rather than cycling repetitively through old conditioning, you are actually spiraling toward freedom.” SelfStoriesHomeAbleRememberAbilityCompassionAwarenessEmotionalHappeningsPatternsAwakeningConditioningCyclingIdentificationTrue Home Book:True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart Source: True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart
“Pay attention to the gap - the gap between two thoughts, the brief, silent space between words in a conversation, between the notes of a piano or flute, or the gap between the in-breath and the out-breath. When you pay attention to those gaps, awareness of 'something' becomes - just awareness. The formless dimension of pure conciousness arises from within you and replaces identification with form.” TwoFormSpacePayAttentionAwarenessPureQuietConversationBreathsNotesSilentArisePay AttentionPianoDimensionsGapsWithin YouIdentificationSpace BetweenFlutes Book:Stillness Speaks Source: Stillness Speaks