Dennis Lewis
The Center for Harmonious Awakening
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Dennis Lewis The Center for Harmonious Awakening
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Quotations that can help awaken a new way of looking at ourselves and the world. I will add to this page on a regular basis.
True Inquiry & Awakeness"True Inquiry is a like a childlike wondering, 'Is this really who I am?' Not thinking about it, but allowing yourself to be more and more disarmed through the question. The more sincerely you experientially enter the unknown, the more you become disarmed. Have you noticed the mind doesn't know what to do? Invite that sense of unknowing, and do not be concerned about being disarmed. Notice that right in the middle of it there is a vivid, radiant awakeness. Mysteriously, by allowing the recognition of that awakeness in, you can awaken as that."--from Emptiness Dancing: Selected Dharma Talks of Adyashanti. The Mind"When you do not accept what actually is, where do you come to? You need then something else to take its place. The faculty of producing something else is what is called the mind. And then a long chain starts in the form of a series of actions and reactions, being and not being, good and evil, death and suffering. All these come into being as links of that chain. How are they produced? By denial. By denying what is. By negating it. By creating something else in its place."--Swami Prajnanpad, from an unpublished dialogue with a student. Asking a Question"We must try to ask a question out of nothing--move from one situation to the next without bringing something of the old situation into the new."--Lord John Pentland, in a Gurdjieff meeting on July 15, 1972. The Substance of Silence"When the substance of silence is present in a man, all his qualities are centered in it; they are all connected primarily with the silence and only secondarily with each other. Therefore it is not so easy for the defect of one quality to infect all the others, since it is kept in its place by the silence. But if there is no silence, a man can be totally infected by a single defect so that he ceases to be a man ..."--Max Picard, The World of Silence. Refusing War"A conscious man refuses war. Mutual
destruction is a manifestation of men The Body as an Anchor
"It is useful to consider the body as the anchor for the senses and the
mind; they are all interrelated. Feel your entire physical body. Allow
your breathing to become relaxed and quiet. When your body and breath
become very still, you may feel a very light sensation, almost like
flying, which carries with it a fresh, alive quality. Open all your
cells, even the molecules that make up your body, unfolding them like
petals. Hold nothing back: open more than your heart; open your entire
body, every atom of it. Then a beautiful experience can arise that has a
quality you can come back to again and again, a quality that will heal
and sustain you.”--Tarthang Tulku,
Openness Mind
Awakening "Awakening comes unexpectedly when you do not wait for it., when you live in not-knowing. Only then are you available."--Jean Klein, Blossoms In Silence "Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go."--G.I Gurdjieff, from In Search of the Miraculous, by P.D. Ouspensky. Forgetfulness of the Self"Forgetfulness of the Self is the source of all misery."--Ramana Maharshi Some of the Books that I Recommend
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