… It is in the universe and yet the universe is in it too. It never evolves, for it is outside time. It has no shape, for it is outside space. It is beyond man’s consciousness, for it is beyond both his thoughts and sense-experience, yet all consciousness springs mysteriously out of it. …Nevertheless man may enter into its knowledge, may enter into its Void, so soon as he can drop his thoughts, let go his sense-experience, but keep his sense of being. Then he may understand what Jesus meant when saying: “He that loseth his life shall find it.”… 28.2.100
You should dismiss each particular and separate thought continually as it comes into his field of awareness, as the ordinary yogi dismisses it, but affirm also the consciousness of which it is composed.… You should not only comprehend the important mystical truth that thinking as an activity is only a habit but also that the Mind which makes it possible is ever present. … The aim is self-reflectively to isolate Mind, that which enables us to think, from the images and thoughts which stream forth continuously from it, to achieve a state of understanding consciousness where there is no object of consciousness.” The Wisdom of the Overself ex. 7
You should remember the metaphysical tenet that behind all those thoughts which were changing continuously, the consciousness which observed them remained static throughout, unmoved and unaltered, that through all the flow of experienced events and things there was a steady element of awareness. You should try to identify yourself with this consciousness and to dis-identify yourself from the accustomed one. —The Wisdom of the Overself ex 4…
The fact that he could examine his own thoughts showed that there was something in him which was itself deeper than them, … that intangible principle of awareness itself whose own existence makes the existence of all the multiple items of awareness itself possible.
… the witnessing self is present in hidden association or mystic immanence in the personal self and reflects into that self the feeling of its own real existence.
… this projected fraction of awareness is what we ordinarily term consciousness, TWOTO Secret of the I
If he will Try to perceive the mind by which he perceives the world, he will be practicing the shortest, most direct technique of discovering the Overself. This is what Ramana Maharshi meant when he taught, “Trace the `I’ to its source.” 22.5.6
We get involved in these ideas and are unable to get behind then to experience the stillness of the Self. …. This cannot be done by force, for that creates resistance. This can be achieved only by alert passivity, by relaxing the mind by not thinking of anything in particular, and yet not losing awareness. Doctrine of Recognition Jaideva Singh, p.29
Eckhart Tolle:
When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world. Your innermost sense of self, of who you are, is inseparable from stillness. This is the I Am that is deeper than name and form.
Stillness is your essential nature. What is stillness? The inner space or awareness in which the words on this page are being perceived and become thoughts. Without that awareness, there would be no perception, no thoughts, no world. You are that awareness, disguised as a person.
You can become aware of awareness as the background to all your sense perceptions, all your thinking. Becoming aware of awareness is the arising of inner stillness. —Stillness Speaks
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Instead of reacting to content, The content is allowed to be and instead of being aware of, identified with what arises in the now, you become aware of the now itself, beyond the phenomena that arise in it: that is the miracle of transformation of consciousness. What does it mean, you become aware of the now itself? You become aware of an undercurrent of stillness in which everything happens: you sense it. Even that is not correct. You realize that you are it.
Even if you never went to another talk, only remembered to listen to silence whenever possible. Through this the new consciousness would arise more and more. FOHC Track 2
Adyashanti:
True meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent prayer. All methods aiming at achieving a certain state of mind are limited, impermanent, and conditioned. Fascination with states leads only to bondage and dependency. True meditation is abidance as primordial awareness.