Henry David Thoreau Quotes

To realize that you are not your thoughts is when you begin to awaken spiritually.

For many people, the first indication of a spiritual awakening is that they suddenly become aware of their thoughts. They become a witness to their thoughts, so to speak. They are not completely identified with their mind anymore and so they begin to sense that there is a depth to them that they had never known before.

While doing sadhana you must quieten your mind and keep awake the Purusha consciousness behind all your activities.

Those who practice know whether realization is attained or not, just as those who drink water know whether it is hot or cold

Meditation is one of the ways in which the spiritual man keeps himself awake.

Offend in neither word nor deed. Eat with moderation. Live in your heart. Seek the highest consciousness. Master yourself according to the law. This is the simple teaching of the awakened.

Mental alertness is not awareness. Mental alertness only enhances your survival instincts. It does not take you towards liberation.

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.

When we cultivate mystical awareness or transcendent identity - which is a natural outgrowth of meditation and other practices - what happens is that we begin to take a witness position on our own lives, and that includes our minds.

We live between the act of awakening and the act of surrender. Each morning, we awaken to the light and the invitation to a new day in the world of time; each night, we surrender to the dark to be taken to play in the world of dreams where time is no more.

Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God.

I am a firm believer that one way to become enlightened is to be so relaxed, as relaxed as you possibly can be.

Yes, now I understood for the first time that my soul was not so poor and empty as it had seemed to me, and that it had been only the sun that was lacking to open all its germs, and buds to the light.

With devotion at the center of your awareness, you don't have to refer to your past in order to make a choice of how to respond or react in any given situation.

If you are vigilant and make a stern effort to reject every thought when it rises, you will soon find that you are going deeper and deeper into your own inner self, where there is no need for your effort to reject the thoughts.

Being enlightened is just being aware. It's just being aware of something that you weren't aware before.

The only way you will ever awaken is through silence, not through analyzation of facts. Not by sorting out good and bad, but through simple silence, letting go. Letting go of all thoughts, all the hurts, all the dogmas and concepts. Letting go of these things daily.

Stay conscious and alive, day in and day out.

By constantly keep one's attention on the Source, the ego is dissolved in that Source like a salt-doll in the sea.

Neither. I am just one who has woken up while the rest of you are still sleeping.

To be conscious of Being, you need to reclaim consciousness from the mind. This is one of the most essential tasks on your spiritual journey.

Life is not accomplishing some special work but attaining to a degree of consciousness and inner freedom which is beyond all works and attainments.

To successfully open the door to heightened awareness, we must open it inward.

You must direct your full, intense concentration on the heart. You must feel that you are not the mind. You have to feel that you are growing into the heart. You are only the heart and nothing else.