"The day is conscious of itself...." - Quote by Rumi

“If you don't try to fly and so break yourself apart, you will be broken open by death, when it's too late for all you could become.”

“Be full of sorrow, that you may become hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter.”

“When someone is counting out gold for you, don't look at your hands, or the gold. Look at the giver.”

“The spirit of rejection finds its support in the consciousness of separateness; the spirit of acceptance finds its base in the consciousness of unity.”

“The conscious mind allows itself to be trained like a parrot, but the unconscious does not — which is why St. Augustine thanked God for not making him responsible for his dreams.”

“When you completely accept this moment, when you no longer argue with what is, the compulsion to think lessens and is replaced by an alert stillness. You are fully conscious, yet the mind is not labeling this moment in any way... It is a shift from identification with form --the thought or the emotion-- to being and recognizing yourself as that which has no form -- spacious awareness.”

“What is the relationship between awareness and thinking? Awareness is the space in which thoughts exist when that space has become conscious of itself.”

“I always read the papers, the political bits.”

“As the fish doesn't know water, people are ignorant of space. Consciousness is concerned only with changing and varying details; it ignores constants-especially constant backgrounds. Thus only very exceptional people are aware of what is basic to everything.”