Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Quotes About Awareness

Quotes about: Awareness

• A quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly, once your mind is quiet. As the sun on rising makes the world active, so does self-awareness affect changes in the mind. In the light of calm and steady self-awareness, inner energies wake up and work miracles without any effort on your part

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Light, Self, Effort

• When you go beyond awareness, there is a state of nonduality, in which there is no cognition, only pure being. In the state of nonduality, all separation ceases.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Cognition, Separation, Awareness

• When you sit quiet and watch yourself,
  many things may come to the surface.
  Do nothing about them, don't react to them.
  As they have come, so will they go, by themselves.
  All that matters is mindfulness, total awareness of oneself,
  or rather, of one's mind.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Mind, Watches, May

• You must realize first of all that you are the proof of everything, including yourself. None can prove your existence, because his existence must be confirmed by you first. Your being and knowing you owe nobody. Remember, you are entirely on your own. You do not come from somewhere, you do not go anywhere. You are timeless being and awareness.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Knowing, Remember You, Remembers You

• Awareness neither dies nor is re-born. It is the changeless reality itself.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Reality, Awareness, Born

• There is no such thing as unconsciousness for it is not experienceable. We infer unconsciousness when there is a lapse in memory or communication.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Memories, Communication, Lapses

• There is nothing to practice. To know yourself, be yourself. To be yourself, stop imagining yourself to be this or that. Just be. Let your true nature emerge. Don't disturb your mind with seeking.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Being Yourself, Business, Practice

• Awareness is ever there. It need not be realized. Open the shutter of the mind, and it will be flooded with light.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Light, Mind, Needs

• Consciousness is an attribute while awareness is not; one can be aware of being conscious, but not conscious of awareness. God is the totality of consciousness, but awareness is beyond all--being as well as not-being.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Consciousness, Awareness, Attributes

• In the light of calm and steady self-awareness, inner energies wake up and work miracles without any effort on your part.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Light, Self, Effort

• All happiness comes from awareness. The more we are conscious the deeper the joy. Acceptance of pain, non-resistance, courage and endurance - these open deep and perennial sources of real happiness, true bliss.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Pain, Real, Acceptance

• You are not in the world...the world is in you," what did he mean? [That is, you are not in the world," that is, there is no "you" that is real or in any world. "The world is in you" means that the world is in your "mind" and is nothing more than a figment of your programming-and-conditioning-induced imaginings.]

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Real, Mean, Mind

• Deepen and broaden your awareness of yourself and all the blessings will flow. You need not seek anything, all will come to you most naturally and effortlessly.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Blessing, Needs, Flow

• I ask you only to stop imagining that you were born, have parents, are a body, will die and so on. Just try, make a beginning-it is not as hard as you think.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Love, Thinking, Parent

• Self-remembrance, awareness of 'I am' ripens him powerfully and speedily. Give up all ideas about yourself and simply be.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Giving Up

• Do you realize the unimaginable greatness, the holiness of what you so casually call 'consciousness'? It is the unmanifest Absolute aware of its awareness through the manifestation, of which your mind-body is presently a part.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Greatness, Mind, Body

• 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.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Two, Self, Personality

• To be a living being is not the ultimate state; there is something [the Reality] beyond, much more wonderful, which is neither being nor non-being, neither living nor not-living. It is a state of Pure Awareness, beyond the limitations of space and time.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Reality, Space, Wonderful

• With self-awareness you grow more intelligent. In awareness you learn, in self-awareness you learn about yourself. Of course, you can only learn what you are not. To know what you are, you must go beyond the mind. Awareness is the point at which the mind reaches out beyond itself into reality. In awareness you seek not what pleases, but what is true.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Intelligent, Reality, Self

• Suffering is primarily a
  call for attention, which itself is a movement of love. More than
  happiness, love wants growth, the widening and deepening of awareness and consciousness and being. Whatever prevents that, becomes a cause of pain, and love does not shirk from pain.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Pain, Suffering, Growth

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