Leafy Quotes

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The newest book quotes in the Leafy Quotes collection — passages readers have just added, each with its author, book and the page it came from.

  1. An essential part of the awakening is the recognition of the unawakened you.

  2. Being must be felt. It can't be thought.

  3. How do you let go of attachment to things? Don't even try. It's impossible. Attachment to things drops away by itself when you no longer seek to find yourself in them.

  4. Accepting means you allow yourself to feel whatever it is you are feeling at that moment...you can't argue with what is. Well, you can, but if you do, you suffer.

  5. Awareness is the greatest agent for change.

  6. Once there is a certain degree of presence, of still and alert attention in human beings’ perceptions, they can sense the divine life essence, the one indwelling consciousness or spirit in every creature, every life form, recognize it as one with their own essence and so love it as themselves. Until this happens, however, most humans see only the outer forms, unaware of the inner essence, just as they are unaware of their own essence and identify only with their own physical and psychological form.

  7. You cannot find yourself in the past or future. The only place where you can find yourself is in the Now.

  8. All the things that truly matter - beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace - arise from beyond the mind.

  9. The achievements of humanity are impressive and undeniable... science and technology have brought about radical changes in the way we live and have enabled us to do and create things that would have been considered miraculous even two hundred years ago.

  10. Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of the consciousness and the burning up of the ego.

  11. Right now we are being given the experience we need to raise our consciousness.

  12. Seeing beauty in a flower could awaken humans, however briefly, to the beauty that is an essential part of their own innermost being, their true nature. The first recognition of beauty was one of the most significant events in the evolution of human consciousness.