“If my happiness at this moment consists largely in reviewing happy memories and expectations, I am but dimly aware of this present. I shall still be dimly aware of the present when the good things that I have been expecting come to pass. For I shall have formed a habit of looking behind and ahead, making it difficult for me to attend to the here and now. If, then , my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.” IfsWorldHas BeensStillsRealMomentsPastDifficultMemoriesBehindsWonderKnowledgeLearningMeditationAwarenessHabitExpectationsManagementGood ThingsBuddhistReal WorldExpectingHere And NowHappy MemoriesIf ThenActually Living Book:The Wisdom of Insecurity Source: The Wisdom of Insecurity
“With awareness there comes choice. And so you are able to say: "I allow this moment to be as it is". And then, suddenly, where before there was irritation, there is now a sense of aliveness and peace. And out of that comes right action.” MomentsAbleActionChoicesAwarenessIrritationRight Action Author:Eckhart Tolle
“A sannyasin is one who has no prejudices, who has not chosen any ideology to be his own, who is choicelessly aware of all that is. In this choicelessness you will be in the middle. The moment you choose, you choose some extreme. The moment you choose, you choose against something; otherwise there is no question of choice. Being in a choiceless awareness is another meaning of being in the middle.” MomentsChoicesMiddleAwarenessPrejudiceExtremesChosenIdeologyYou Choose Author:Rajneesh
“The greatest discovery in life, the most precious treasure, is of awareness. Without it you are bound to be in darkness, full of fears. And you will go on creating new fears - there is no end to it. You will live in fear, you will die in fear, and you will never be able to taste something of freedom. And it was all the time your potential; any moment you could have claimed it, but you never claimed it.” EndsMomentsAbleDiesFearDarknessAwarenessGoes OnTasteCreatingDiscoveryBoundsTreasureDiscovery In Life Author:Rajneesh
“There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate, to answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.” MenWayMomentsCertainAnswersConsciousnessMysteryAwarenessGratitudeBuiltGrandeurCompatibleOwingReciprocateIndebtedness Author:Abraham Joshua Heschel
“A Buddha is not a man of concentration, he is a man of awareness. He has not been trying to narrow down his consciousness; on the contrary, he has been trying to drop all barriers so that he becomes totally available to existence. Watch... existence is simultaneous. I am speaking here and the traffic noise is simultaneous. The train, the birds the wind blowing through the trees - in this moment the whole of existence converges. You listening to me, I speaking to you, and millions of things going on - it is tremendously rich.” MenTryingHas BeensWholeMomentsExistenceConsciousnessWatchesMillionsRichTreeAwarenessWindListeningBirdTrainAvailableContraryNoiseConcentrationBarriersTrafficSimultaneousWind Blowing Author:Rajneesh
“Don't choose. If you choose, you will be in the quagmire. Don't choose! A choiceless awareness is the goal. Just remain aloof; don't choose. The moment you choose, you have fallen into the trap of the world, or into the trap of the mind.” IfsWorldMindMomentsGoalAwarenessFallenYou ChooseTrapsAloofQuagmire Author:Rajneesh