--- title: "1 Advaita Quotes By Jean Klein" description: "1 Advaita quotes by Jean Klein. Plus more from Jean Klein and more Advaita sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d0d/jean-klein-29840_advaita_it-is-only-through-silent-awareness-that_1462850.jpg" --- > [“It is only through silent awareness that our physical and mental nature can change. This change is completely spontaneous. If we make an effort to change we do no more than shift our attention from one level, from one thing,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-klein/it-is-only-through-silent-awareness-that-our-physical-and-mental/) [Jean Klein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-klein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d0d/jean-klein-29840_advaita_it-is-only-through-silent-awareness-that_1462850.jpg) ## Other authors on Advaita - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b001/author-abhijit-naskar-99.jpg) Abhijit Naskar 72 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/advaita/abhijit-naskar/) ## More by Jean Klein > [We are completely unaware of our true nature because we identify ourselves with our body, our emotions and our thoughts, thus losing sight of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-klein/we-are-completely-unaware-of-our-true-nature-because-we-identify/) [Jean Klein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-klein/) > [To identify yourself with your personality is more or less a reflex. You must see, when the reflex comes up, that it is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-klein/to-identify-yourself-with-your-personality-is-more-or-less-a-reflex/) [Jean Klein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-klein/) > [Any love is a home-sickness, a longing for a lost paradise.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-klein/any-love-is-a-home-sickness-a-longing-for-a-lost-paradise/) [Jean Klein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-klein/) > [“Go deeply into the urge to be silent and not the mental interference of how, where and when. If you follow silence to its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-klein/go-deeply-into-the-urge-to-be-silent-and-not-the-mental-interference/) [Jean Klein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-klein/) > [Nothing that can be known has existence in itself. It depends on a knower. The knower is consciousness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-klein/nothing-that-can-be-known-has-existence-in-itself-it-depends-on-a/) [Jean Klein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-klein/) > [You are primal awareness. Life is only primal awareness. Between two thoughts or two perceptions you are. You know moments in your life when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-klein/you-are-primal-awareness-life-is-only-primal-awareness-between-two/) [Jean Klein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-klein/) > [The human form is a microcosm of the universe. All that supposedly exists outside us in reality exists in us. The world is in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-klein/the-human-form-is-a-microcosm-of-the-universe-all-that-supposedly/) [Jean Klein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-klein/) > [The root of all desires is the one desire: to come home, to be at peace.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-klein/the-root-of-all-desires-is-the-one-desire-to-come-home-to-be-at-peace/) [Jean Klein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-klein/) > [Liberation does not concern the person, for liberation is freedom from the person. Basically the disciple and teacher are identical. Both are the timeless…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-klein/liberation-does-not-concern-the-person-for-liberation-is-freedom-from/) [Jean Klein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-klein/) > [“It is only through silent awareness that our physical and mental nature can change. This change is completely spontaneous. If we make an effort…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-klein/it-is-only-through-silent-awareness-that-our-physical-and-mental/) [Jean Klein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-klein/) > [Our surroundings are not contained by name and form. You are neither the body nor the mind, these are limits you identify with through…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-klein/our-surroundings-are-not-contained-by-name-and-form-you-are-neither/) [Jean Klein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-klein/) > [It is like being in the desert. At first you listen to the absence of sounds and call it silence. Then suddenly you may…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-klein/it-is-like-being-in-the-desert-at-first-you-listen-to-the-absence-of/) [Jean Klein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-klein/) > [If the ego is in the slightest way separated from its source, it yearns to find it again. This search comes from the remembrance…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-klein/if-the-ego-is-in-the-slightest-way-separated-from-its-source-it/) [Jean Klein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-klein/) > [In listening and stillness there is nobody who is still, and this stillness doesn't refer to any object; it is absolutely objectless; it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-klein/in-listening-and-stillness-there-is-nobody-who-is-still-and-this/) [Jean Klein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-klein/) > [The world exists only when we think about it; creation stories are for children. In reality the world is created every moment.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-klein/the-world-exists-only-when-we-think-about-it-creation-stories-are-for/) [Jean Klein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-klein/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/advaita/jean-klein/#itemlist", "name": "1 Advaita Quotes By Jean Klein", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“It is only through silent awareness that our physical and mental nature can change. This change is completely spontaneous. If we make an effort to change we do no more than shift our attention from one level, from one thing, to another. We remain in a vicious circle. This only transfers energy from one point to another. It still leaves us oscillating between suffering and pleasure, each leading inevitably back to the other. 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