Quotes About Consciousness

Man awakened to the Self's Glory is God; God forgetful of His own glory is the deluded man!

The ?tman, the pure Consciousness, gets Itself deluded by Its own delusion and by Itself projects out the 'pluralistic world' which is nothing but Itself, It being the all-pervading and eternal.

M????kya? eka? kevala? mumuk?u??? vimuktaye).

Just as in the dream, the agitated mind creates a delusory dream world and the dreamer identifying himself with it takes it to be real and gains experience thereunder; so too in the waking state, the waker's mind being agitated, projects itself to a world of delusory plurality and he gains therein his experience of a world, seemingly real for him for the time being.

The more we identify ourselves with the little 'I' in us,

Once we know something, we find it hard to imagine what it was like not to know it.

Action triggers simply have to be specific enough and visible enough to interrupt people's normal stream of consciousness. A

Action triggers simply have to be specific enough and visible enough to interrupt people's normal stream of consciousness. A trigger to "praise your employees when they do something great" is too vague to be useful.

First, there's what we called the emotional side. It's the part of you that is instinctive, that feels pain and pleasure. Second, there's the rational side, also known as the reflective or conscious system. It's the part of you that deliberates and analyzes and looks into the future. In the past

I found the only time I had to shut down—to become mindful of nothing more than the present moment—was whenever I was peeing.

Even the wisest don't know what's hidden in the depths of their being

Sometimes I wonder if there is such a thing as reality, an objective and untouched nature of being. Or if all that we encounter has already been changed by what we had imagined it to be. If we have dreamed it into being.

Knowing yet not knowing is a strange sensation, like being split in two

A volte mi chiedo se la realtà esiste davvero, se c'è varamente una natura delle cose, obiettiva e intatta. O se tutto ciò che ci accade è già modificato in anticipo dalla nostra immaginazione. Se sognando qualcosa gli diamo vita.

Masalah hanya menjadi masalah kalau kau percaya itu masalah. Dan sering orang melihatmu seperti kau melihat dirimu sendiri. -Krishna

How little we know our own reputations, I thought with a bitter smile.

How, without detaching ourselves from the spell of the past, can we focus fully on the moment that faces us?

When the body sleeps, a large portion of the incarnated soul leaves the physical body and transfers to the emotional or astral body.

When you do spiritual practices, it is very important that you do not eat pork. If you take a look at pork clairvoyantly, it is extremely dirty. You may eat some meat, but not too much.

Intuitive intelligence is knowing though direct inner perceptions or direct knowing. It doesn't require study. The disciple just simply knows. There are usually no inner images or visions. Intuitive intelligence utilizes the crown chakra.

Seeing darkness during meditation is also good. It is an advanced state of consciousness. Just ask for divine blessings so that you will progress further. Before the light is darkness. As you explore deeper, there is actually "a series of darkness and light." The dark void is a transition state before the person experiences the explosion of light.

When you eat with awareness, you find that there is more space, more beauty. You begin to watch yourself, to see yourself, and you notice how clumsy you are or how accurate you are…When you practice awareness, everything becomes majestic and good. You begin to see that you have been leading a different kind of life in the past. You had the essence of mindfulness already, but you hadn't discovered it.

Becoming "awake" involves seeing our confusion more clearly.

He too, it seemed, had come to believe that he could somehow escape history. That it was possible, and even desirable, to live in a perpetual present.