Pure Awareness Quotes

#1. Vitarags [the enlightened one] do not have a desire for giving or receiving charity. They are in the state of 'shuddh upyog' [pure awareness of pure soul].

Dada Bhagwan

#2. Making every desire come true is not difficult once you realize that the same thing is always at work - you are transforming pure awareness from one state to another.

Deepak Chopra

#3. Since pure awareness of nowness is real Enlightenment,
in openness and contentment I found the Truth in my heart.
By simply relaxing in this uncontrived, open, and natural state,
we obtain the quality of effortless freedom of whatever arises.

Jigdral Yeshe Dorje

#4. Enlightenment is getting off the wheel. Enlightenment is to become pure awareness.

Frederick Lenz

#5. The innermost core is witnessing, awareness, watchfulness. You can call it anything, but it will be another meaning of witnessing. Truth is pure awareness.

Rajneesh

#6. The self is coming from a state of pure awareness from the state of being. All the rest that comes about in a outward manifesation of the physical world, including fluctuations which end up as thoughts and actions

Aldous Huxley

#7. In pure awareness the mind cannot drag you down into the mud, into the gutter. In anger, in hatred, in jealousy, the mind is absolutely impotent in the face of awareness. And because the mind is absolutely impotent, your whole being is in a profound silence - the peace that passeth understanding.

Rajneesh

#8. Thirty seconds of pure awareness is a long time, especially after a lifetime of escaping yourself at all costs.

Kiera Van Gelder

#9. The purpose of meditation is to awaken in us the sky-like nature of mind, and to introduce us to that which we really are, our unchanging pure awareness, which underlies the whole of life and death

Sogyal Rinpoche

#10. Whatever experiences we may come across in our spiritual journey we are not any of those experiences but rather the one who is witnessing them, the pure awareness cognizing them without thought.

Enza Vita

#11. You are the light of consciousness and also the witness of this light. You are pure awareness.

Mooji

#12. Only no-mind can be without any duality, because it is empty. The no-mind is choicelessness. The no-mind is pure awareness. It is just the empty sky.

Rajneesh

#13. Inspiration originally meant "being in spirit", indicating that when we are inspired we are connected to a higher domain of pure awareness and pure consciousness. True inspiration can only flow through us when we are anchored in the present moment.

Christopher Dines

#14. The teacher is transmitting pure awareness and consciousness.

Frederick Lenz

#15. If I may take the risk of defining what a spiritual experience is, it is one in which pure awareness reveals itself to you as the maker of reality - where you suddenly discover through insight or meditation or a freak accident that your essential nature is spiritual, non-material.

Deepak Chopra

#16. You are pure awareness at center, human in appearance.

Robin Craig Clark

#17. Silence is helpful, but you don't need it in order to find stillness. Even when there is noise, you can be aware of the stillness underneath the noise, of the space in which the noise arises. That is the inner space of pure awareness, consciousness itself.

Eckhart Tolle

#18. 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

#19. Zen is the most scientific method to inquire into your consciousness. It takes you beyond mind into a space called no-mind. No self, but pure awareness, and you have a taste of eternity and immortality.

Rajneesh

#20. Truth is pure awareness.

Rajneesh

#21. When the mind is opening to that unbounded pure awareness, the field of pure intelligence, simultaneously the body is losing stresses and strains, and thereby the clouds that were hindering the use of inner full creative intelligence in action, they begin to wither away.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#22. You think, you become that thought. And consciousness, or the state of pure awareness, is lost.

Barry Long

#23. Integral wisdom involves a direct participation in every moment: the observer and the observed are dissolved in the light of pure awareness, and no mental concepts or attitudes are present to dim that light.

Laozi

#24. To constantly see one's own self as 'Pure', and to see other's self as 'pure', is focused applied awareness of the Self, the Soul (shuddha upayog).

Dada Bhagwan

#25. 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

#26. In order to make the egoism non-existent [zero], the Gnani Purush [the enlightened one] establishes the awareness of the Pure Soul within.

Dada Bhagwan

#27. With egoism at the center, the awareness of all worldly things can be set beautifully. The awareness of 'I am Pure Soul' can never setup with ego being at the center.

Dada Bhagwan

#28. How can one go from good [auspicious state] to pure (state)? There are no words for it. It will happen when the Gnani Purush (the enlightened one) gives the awareness of the Self; it will happen when He bestows God's grace upon you.

Dada Bhagwan

#29. If your heart, mind, and actions are selfish, they will ultimately divide you, others, or entire [establishments]. When motivation is pure and selfless, it will result in helping bring others together.

A.J. Darkholme

#30. Life is not a discrete phenomenon it is a part of an intelligent cosmic field. It is a cosmic dance.

Amit Ray

#31. Enlightenment is the culmination of self-knowledge, pure unadulterated knowledge. Not knowledge you can get from reading a book, it comes from perfecting your awareness, your mind.

Frederick Lenz

#32. The proof of spiritual maturity, Tolstoy contended, is not how "pure" you are but awareness of your impurity. That very awareness opens the door to grace.

Philip Yancey

#33. Our failure to see and access the pure joy and radiance of life is owning to a lack of awareness. In any situation there is beauty. Even at the moment of one's death there is beauty.

Frederick Lenz

#34. Shuddha upayog (applied awareness of the Self, The Soul) means to be able to see the Soul and the Body of the other person as separate. The constant contemplation of 'I am pure Soul (Shuddhatma)' is shukladhyan (pure contemplation as the Self).

Dada Bhagwan

#35. If a man can permanently establish his awareness in contact with that pure field (of consciousness), then problems wither away. It's a very simple thing. When the light comes, then where is the darkness?

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#36. Meditation simply means a state of no-thought, awareness without the process of thought, just pure, mirror-like awareness, with no thoughts passing in the mind.

Rajneesh

#37. Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.

Voltaire

#38. At the core of your heart, you are perfect and pure. No one and nothing can alter that.

Amit Ray

#39. If God created each of us and created us in His own image, then we are each created in the image and likeness of pure and perfect Holy Love itself. We cannot be less than that, but we can remove ourselves from the awareness of it.

Karlyle Tomms

#40. Nothing in this world can touch or affect the one who remains in the focused pure applied awareness of the Self, the Soul (shuddha upayogi).

Dada Bhagwan

#41. Nature is favourable to our effort when human awareness is being established more and more in pure consciousness.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#42. Who is doing this? Who am I? What is all this? Who is the doer? Who is the nimit (instrumental doer) of this? If all these remain present 'at a time' exactly the way it is, then that is considered shuddha upayog (pure focused applied awareness of the Self, the Soul).

Dada Bhagwan

#43. Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.

Amit Ray

#44. We have no need to teach pure motives to the mind. All that is necessary to make the mind pure is to undo the negative conditioning to which it has been subjected; then we will be left with Pure, Unconditioned Awareness.

Eknath Easwaran

#45. Love is who you are. Your true self is pure love, infinite awareness, and unbounded joy ... As you realize this, you will feel a small light in your heart. At first it will be the size of a spark, then a candle flame, then a raging bonfire.

Deepak Chopra

#46. The actions carried out with ignorance of the Self [agnan bhaav, ignorance intent] is all bondage. Every action done with the awareness of I am pure Soul [gnan bhaav, knowledge intent], will grant liberation.

Dada Bhagwan

#47. Of many magics, one is watching a beloved sleep: free of eyes and awareness, you for a sweet moment hold the heart of him; helpless, he is then all, and however irrationally, you have trusted him to be, man-pure, child-tender.

Truman Capote

#48. Do not except anything as love without truth because love and truth have always been best friends.

Shannon L. Alder

#49. Only when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to recognize what comprises you: pure being.

Adyashanti

#50. We are essentially pure consciousness, which perceives the material universe through our own awareness.

Christopher Dines

#51. There is a God part in you. The consciousness. The pure Self. Learn to listen the voice of that Power.

Amit Ray

#52. I am Chandubhai' is good or bad focused applied awareness (shubha-ashubha upyoga). 'I am Pure Soul', is the focused pure applied awareness of the Self (shuddha upayog). With good-bad focused applied awareness (shubha-ashubha upayog) instillation in the worldly life occured.

Dada Bhagwan

#53. Keeping 'pure focused applied awareness of the Self (Soul)' (shuddha upayog) is the same as being in the Absolute Supreme Self-form (Parmatma swaroop).

Dada Bhagwan