Awareness cleaned my mind
to a polished mirroring.

The presence came near, and I knew
that That was everything,
and I nothing.

~ Lalla

It is only through silent awareness that our physical and mental nature can change. This change is completely spontaneous. If we make an effort to change we do no more than shift our attention from one level, from one thing, to another. We remain in a vicious circle. This only transfers energy from one point to another. It still leaves us oscillating between suffering and pleasure, each leading inevitably back to the other. Only living stillness, stillness without someone trying to be still, is capable of undoing the conditioning our biologoical, emotional and psychological nature has undergone. There is no controller, no selector, no personality making choices. In choiceless living the situation is given the freedom to unfold. You do not grasp one aspect over another for there is nobody to grasp. When you understand something and live it without being stuck to the formulation, what you have understood dissolves in your openness. In this silence change takes place of its own accord, the problem is resolved and duality ends. You are left in your glory where no one has understood and nothing has been understood.

~ Jean Klein "I Am"

The only offering you can make to God
is your increasing awareness.

~ Lalla

How do I listen to others? As if everyone were my Master speaking to me his cherished last words.

~ Hafiz

Men forget where the way leads
and what they meet with every day
seems strange to them.
We should not act and speak
like men asleep.

~ Heraclitus

The no-mind state is not the vacancy of idiocy
but the most supremely alert intelligence,
undistracted by extraneous thought.

~ Ramesh Balsekar

From now onwards let your whole thought in meditation be,
not in the act of seeing nor on what you see,
but immovably on that which sees.

~ Sri Ramana Maharshi

What you are looking for is what is looking.

~ St. Francis of Assisi

'I call that man awake who,
with conscious knowledge
and understanding,
can perceive the deep
unreasoning powers in his soul,
his whole innermost strength,
desire and weakness,
and knows how to reckon
with himself.'
~ Hermann Hesse

The world with all its wonders is nothing.
When you know this, desire melts away.
For you are awareness itself. When you
know in your heart that there is nothing,
you are still.

- Ashtavakra Gita

There are some demons dangerous

to your soul: lust, anger.

But there's a way to kill them.

Feed them meditation only,

and clear awareness, and you'll see

the illusion of what they control.

~ Lalla

Truth is very simple, don't complicate it.
You must be in the Light to know the darkness:
Just be aware of yourself, the Light.
Jump into the fire of Knowledge
and don't be concerned with what will happen
to your clothing of concepts and vasanas.
This fire will burn all.

- Papaji

As you go about your life, don't give 100 percent of
your attention to the external world and to your mind.
Keep some within. Feel the inner body even when
engaged in everyday activities, especially when engaged
in relationships or when you are relating with nature.
Feel the stillness deep inside it. Keep the portal open.

~ Eckhart Tolle

Be aware of being conscious and seek the
source of consciousness. That is all. Very
little can be conveyed in words. It is the
doing as I tell you that will bring light, not
my telling you. The means do not matter much;
it is the desire, the urge, the earnestness that
counts.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj

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.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj