Being Aware of Awareness Guided Meditations from Awakening Together Podcasts

In this episode, quotes from Nisargadatta Maharaj were contemplated. "All you need is already within you, only you must approach your Self with reverence and love. ... Giving attention to attention, aware of being aware. Affectionate awareness is the crucial factor that brings Reality into focus. ... Do not undervalue attention. It means interest and love."

In this episode, quotes from Paul Brunton were contemplated. "The source of wisdom and power, of love and beauty is within ourselves but not within our egos. It is within our consciousness. Indeed, its presence provides us with a conscious contrast which enables us to speak of the ego as if it were something different and apart; it is the true Self whereas the ego is only an illusion of the mind."

In this episode, quotes from Ramana Maharshi were contemplated.  "Q: How can the rebellious mind be made calm and tranquil? RM: Either see its source so that it may disappear, or surrender yourself so that it may be struck down.... The ego submits only when it recognizes the Higher Power."

In this episode, quotes from Ramana Maharshi were contemplated. "Grace is the Self. That ... is not to be acquired; you only need to know that it exists.... You are surrounded by sunlight; yet if you would see the sun, you must turn in its direction and look at it."

In this episode, quotes from Reverend Deborah Johnson were contemplated, "What you love will reveal its secrets to you."

In this episode, excerpts were contemplated from Rupert Spira's book, Transparency Of All Things.

In this episode, quotes from Robert Adams with Ramana Maharshi were contemplated. Robert Adams with Ramana Maharshi, "The highest teaching in the world is Silence.... In Silence, boundaries dissolve. Silence is the ultimate reality, and everything exists in this omniscient silence... That is Truth; that is who you really are. In the deep silence where there is no good or bad, and no one is trying...

In this episode, quotes from Ramana Maharshi were contemplated. "Questioner: How can I attain Self-realization? Ramana Maharshi: Realization is nothing to be gained afresh; it is already there. All that is necessary is to get rid on the thought, 'I have not realized.' Stillness or Peace is Realization. There is no moment when the Self is not. ... The Self is not reached. You are the Self; you are...

In this episode, excerpts on deep acceptance from David Carse's book Perfect Brilliant Stillness were contemplated.

In this episode, quotes from Ramana Maharshi and Dr. David Hawkins were contemplated as well as the lyrics from "Heaven" by the Talking Heads. Ramana Maharshi, "Questioner: How to see God, Who is all-pervasive? Ramana Maharshi: To see God is to be God. There is no 'all's apart from God for Him to pervade. He alone is." Dr David Hawkins, "In the beginning, a seeker assumes there is a personal self...

In this episode, quotes from Ramana Maharshi were contemplated.  "Devotee: Other thoughts arise more forcibly when one attempts meditation! Ramana: Yes, all kinds of thought arise in meditation. That is only right; for what lies hidden in you is brought out. Unless it rises up, how can it be destroyed? Thoughts rise up spontaneously, as it were, but only to be extinguished in due course, thus...

In this episode, quotes from Ramana Maharshi were contemplated. "The Self is the Heart, self-luminous... If the mind is turned in, toward the Source of illumination, objective knowledge ceases and the Self alone shines as the Heart."

In this episode, quotes from Ramana Maharshi were contemplated.  "Questioner: The mind becomes peaceful for a short while and again emerges forth. What is to be done? Maharshi: The peace often gained must be remembered at other times. That peace is your natural and permanent state. By continuous practice it will become natural. That is called the 'current.' That is your true nature.

In this episode, quotes from Raman Maharshi were contemplated. "Bliss is not something to be got. On the other hand, you are always Bliss. this desire is born of the sense of incompleteness. To whom is this sense of incompleteness? Inquire. In deep sleep you were blissful. Now you are not so. What has interposed between that Bliss and this non-bliss? It is the ego. Seek its source and find ou...

In this episode, quotes from Ramana Maharshi were contemplated: "You ask me to describe this true Self to you. What can be said? It is That out of which the sense of the personal 'I' arises, and into which it shall have to disappear."

In this episode, quotes from Michael Singer's book Untethered Soul , page 66 were contemplated along with quotes from Ramana Maharshi. "Maharshi: It is the nature of the mind to wander. You are not the mind. The mind springs up and sinks down. It is impermanent transitory, whereas you are eternal. There is nothing but the Self. To inhere in the Self is the thing. Never mind the mind. If its source...

In this episode, quotes from Ramana Maharshi were contemplated.  "Questioner: Mrs. D said there were breaks in her awareness and desired to know how the awareness might be made continuous. Maharshi: Breaks due to thoughts. You cannot be aware of breaks unless you think so. It is only a thought. Repeat the old practice, 'To whom do these thoughts arise?' Keep up the practice until there are no...

In this episode, quotes from Paul Brunton were contemplated. "The source of wisdom and power, of love and beauty, is within ourselves but not within our egos. It is within our conciousness. Indeed, its presence provides us with a concious contrast which enables us to speak of the ego as if it were something different and apart; it is the true Self whereas the ego is only an illusion of mind."

In today's episode, quotes from Ramana Maharshi were contemplated.  "None can deny his own being. Being is knowledge, that is, awareness. That awareness implies absence of ignorance. Therefore everyone naturally admits non-existence of ignorance. And yet why should he suffer? Because he thinks he is this or that. That is wrong. 'I am' alone is; and not 'I am so and so,' or 'I am such and such...

In today's episode, quotes from Ramana Maharshi, were contemplated.  "Bliss is not something to be got. On the other hand, you are always Bliss. This desire is born of the sense of incompleteness. To whom is this sense of incompleteness? Inquire. In deep sleep you were blissful. Now you are not so. What has interposed between that Bliss and this non-bliss? It is the ego. Seek its source and f...

In this episode, quotes from Ramana Maharshi were contemplated.  "Questioner: How to get peace? Maharshi: That is the natural state. The mind obstructs the innate peace. Our investigation is only in the mind. Investigate the mind; it will disappear. There is no entity by the name mind. Because of the emergence of thoughts we surmise something from which they start. That we term mind. When we...

In today's episode, a sutra was contemplated from The Radiance Sutras; 112 Gateways to the Yoga of Wonder & Delight by Lorin Roche, PhD.

In today's episode, two quotes from Dr. David Hawkins were contemplated.  "With sharp focus, it becomes apparent that thoughts can be relinquished earlier and earlier in the process of their emergence and formation. ...by doing this, it becomes amazingly apparent that one thinks only as a consequence of desiring to do so, and that thoughts and images only have an imaginary value." "Freedom is...

In this episode, excerpts from The Spiritual Teachings of Ramana Maharshi were contemplated. "When the mind is quiet, we come to know ourselves as the pure witness. We withdraw from the experience and the experiencer and stand apart in pure awareness, which is between and beyond the two. The personality, based on self-identification, on imagining oneself to be something, "I am this, I am that," co...

In this episode, excerpts from NTI Revelations from the book The Holy Spirit's Interpretation of the New Testament , from Regina Dawn Akers, were contemplated.