Janina Gavankar Quotes

To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything.

The part of my brain that was responsible for creating the world I lived and moved in and for taking the raw data that came in through my senses and fashioning it into a meaningful universe: that part of my brain was down, and out. And yet despite all of this, I had been alive, and aware, truly aware, in a universe characterized above all by love, consciousness, and reality. There was, for me, simply no arguing this fact. I knew it so completely that I ached.

Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.

What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.

When you're sent something and read it, either you can see it while you read it, or you can't.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there.

Your mind makes out the orange by seeing it, hearing it, touching it, smelling it, tasting it and thinking about it but without this mind, you call it, the orange would not be seen or heard or smelled or tasted or even mentally noticed, it's actually, that orange, depending on your mind to exist! Don't you see that? By itself it's a no-thing, it's really mental, it's seen only of your mind. In other words it's empty and awake.

The Universe is a mirror of consciousness.

What, concretely, is Enlightenment ?" "Seeing Reality as it is," said the Master. "Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?" "Oh, no! Most people see it as they think it is." "What's the difference?" "The difference between thinking you are drowning in a stormy sea and knowing you cannot drown because there isn't any water in sight for miles around.

Whether you know the shape of a pebble or the structure of a solar system, the anxioms remain the same: that it exists and that you know it.

Intelligence is the seeing of what is.

The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.

Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.

When you don't understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.

If you have it and you know you have it, then you have it. If you have it and don't know you have it, you don't have it. If you don't have it but you think you have it, then you have it.

Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world.

Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.

I wish the children could be taught early on that our thinking creates our experience.

The great mystery of our consciousness is beyond our grasp.

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

The perception of what a thing is and the perception of what it means are not separate, either.

When I see a colour or hear a sound, I am aware of something, and not of nothing.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.