Quotes About Consciousness

Living consciousness somehow is the influence that turns the possibility of something into something real. The most essential ingredient in creating our universe is the consciousness that observes it.

We see things not as they are, but as we are. Because it is the 'I' behind the 'eye' that does the seeing.

You look up for a moment and you're not sure which life is real. You've split yourself into so many honeycombed parts that they barely notice each other---all of them pacing, concurrently, parallel streams of though, and each one thinks of its self as me.

Unfortunately, there can be no doubt that man is, on the whole, less good than he imagines himself or wants to be. Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is.

The birth of the mind is the death of the senses

Enlightenment is not an attainment, it is a realization. And when you wake up, everything changes and nothing changes.

While some of us act without thinking, too many of us think without acting.

you have to 'lose your mind' before you can come to your senses.

It is better for you to take responsibility for your life as it is, instead of blaming others, or circumstances, for your predicament. As your eyes open, you'll see that your state of health, happiness, and every circumstance of your life has been, in large part, arranged by you - consciously or unconsciously.

Your business is not to 'get somewhere' — it is to be here.

It is better for you to take responsibility for your life as it is, instead of blaming others, or circumstances, for your predicament. As your eyes open, you'll see that your state of health, happiness, and every circumstance of your life has been, in large part, arranged by you — consciously or unconsciously.

There are no ordinary moments!

You have been immortal since before you were born and will be long after the body dissolves. The body is Consciousness; never born; never dies; only changes. The mind — your ego, personal beliefs, history, and identity — is all that ends at death.

You've become bored to things because they exist only as names to you. The dry concepts of mind obscure your direct perception.

Whatever our circumstances, everything can feel so simple, so beautiful, and so right when we no longer pay attention to the mind's incessant chatter.

How do you know you haven't been asleep your whole life? How do you know you're not asleep right now?

I closed my eyes to meditate, but realized that I was always meditating now, with my eyes wide open.

Finally, I realized the process of real meditation—to expand awareness, to direct attention, to ultimately surrender to the light of consciousness.

only then do I realize that the jewel had always been with in me, even then and that the light had always shinned, only my eyes were closed

If a blind man realizes that he can see, has the world changed?

You are learning," Serafim said, "how to think with your body—how to leave your mind and come to your senses.

The birth of the mind is the death of the senses — it's not that we eat an apple and get a little sexy!

The poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson, experienced this realization early in life: "Since boyhood, by repeating my own name silently, an intense awareness of individuality came, then seemed to dissolve and fade away into boundless being, and this was not a confused state, but clear and sure, utterly beyond words, where death was an almost laughable impossibility.

Pain and darkness have been our lot since the Fall of Man. But there must be some hope that we can rise to a higher level ... that consciousness can evolve to a plane more benevolent than its counterpoint of a universe hardwired to indifference.