Ella Maillart Quotes

If you touch one thing with deep awareness, you touch everything.

Most people don't know how to listen because the major part of their attention is taken up by thinking. They pay more attention to that than to what the other person is saying, and none at all to what really matters: the Being of the other person underneath the words and the mind. Of course, you cannot feel someone else's Being except through your own. This is the beginning of the realization of oneness, which is love. At the deepest level of Being, you are one with all that is.

When you really think about your hand you begin to realize its connection, to sense the hum of your own being passing through it. When we look at a piece of the universe we should feel the same.

When you rest in presence and pure awareness, sometimes everything is experienced as love because you're connected with all that is, and love is simply the nature of being.

When we're identified with Awareness, we're no longer living in a world of polarities. Everything is present at the same time.

Observe, and in that observation there is neither the "observer" nor the "observed" - there is only observation taking place.

Those who are highly evolved, maintain an undiscriminating perception. Seeing everything, labeling nothing, they maintain their awareness of the Great Oneness. Thus they are supported by it.

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.

But if you've really learned how to think, how to pay attention, then you will know you have other options. It will be within your power to experience a crowded, loud, slow, consumer-hell-type situation as not only meaningful but sacred, on fire with the same force that lit the stars - compassion, love, the sub-surface unity of all things.

You don't always have to look in the distance for what's going on over there, when you actually see what's right in front of you.

Meditation should not be regarded as a learning process. It should be regarded as an experiencing process. You should not try to learn from meditation but try to feel it. Meditation is an act of nonduality. The technique you are using should not be separate from you; it is you, you are the technique. Meditator and meditation are one. There is no relationship involved.

Art is about paying attention.

Be aware of everything around you, because you are receiving the answers to your questions in every moment of the day.

Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeated all things.

Mind cannot think without duality. Duality is the way of thinking. In silence, all dualities disappear.

The whole world changes when there's presence - sunlight everywhere - because you're not separate from the world.

Observe what is with undivided awareness.

You are whole and also part of larger and larger circles of wholeness you many not even know about. You are never alone. And you already belong. You belong to humanity. You belong to life. You belong to this moment, this breath.

Everything is the same spirit watching itself through the eyes of different observers.

There is no ideal in observation. When you have an ideal, you cease to observe, you are then merely approximating the present to the idea, and therefore there is duality, conflict, and all the rest of it. The mind has to be in the state when it can see, observe. The experience of the observation is really an astonishing state. In that there is no duality. The mind is simply - aware.

And we can't avoid an inch of our own experience; if we do it causes a blur, a bleep, a puffy unreality. Our job is to wake up to everything, because if we slow down enough, we see that we are everything.

You don't need a special place to meditate. You can transcend anywhere in the world. The unified field is here, and there, and everywhere.

The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier does not exist.