Awakened Awareness: Know Thyself!

Knowing others may sharpen the mind. Knowing yourself ends the one who needed the sharpening for identity. What is called enlightenment is not mastery of what is outside you. It is the falling away of confusion about what you are. -The Still Point

The strain eases when life is no longer treated as a passage to somewhere else. Then the moment is not reduced to means, and the path is no longer judged by what it delivers. What is here is no longer waiting to become enough. It is met before the demand for arrival begins. -The Still Point

Reality is but a perception. But how do we perceive reality? Through the balance of our awareness and our physical incarnation. Time is a myth perpetuated by our physical incarnation. All that really exists is the ever-present Now. Only in the Now can we commune with Creator....See more

Be here and now. Often, our mind compares this moment to an ideal moment that we want. Actually what's going on within us is - we don't want this moment, what's happening here and now - we want something else. This is the basic misperception of the human mind. If you only...See more

There is in the body, a current of energy, affection and intelligence, which guides, maintains and energizes the body. Discover that current and stay with it. ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

The Guru is not outside you. He is in the Heart—your own Self, and the Self of all. Because you do not yet hear that silent teaching, grace appears in human form and turns you back within. The real Guru was never elsewhere. -The Still Point

While you do any work, any action - pay full attention to the work, to the action. See what the body does. Look at it with mindfulness. If the body is in anxiety, look at it without judgement or without saying anything about it. As you cook your meals, as you walk, do that with...See more