Quotes About Consciousness

El TODO es Mente viviente infinita. ¡El iluminado lo llama Espíritu!

Individuals who undergo spiritual transformation as a result of their experiences, Mack said, are more "open to other realities beyond space/time…

what is the nature of reality?

By its nature, nonlocal mind connects all things because it is all things.

You can even invoke dreams, nourish them, and regulate their quantity. For example, to stimulate dreaming, before you go to sleep tell yourself: "I want to remember my dreams," or address the dream directly, "Dreaming Self, send me a dream," or use whatever phrase feels comfortable to you. If you invoke dreams for three nights in a row, generally you will recall a dream by the fourth night. I repeat my phrase three times just to make

The point is to be free, not to be crazy.

Your emotional understanding about the preciousness of your human birth comes through conscious, repetitive mind training.

This unconditional wakefulness is described in the Sanskrit term bodhicitta

REAL BUT NOT TRUE

At first a yogi feels his mind Is tumbling like a waterfall; In midcourse, like the Ganges, It flows on slow and gentle; In the end, it is a great Vast ocean, where the lights Of child and mother merge in one. — The Song of Tilopa (988–1069)

Starflight was dreaming, but it wasn't so much a dream as a memory.

The problem was, he felt it now.

How funny it feels to know you so well when there are so many of you I'm never going to meet. I see you all the time, especially when I'm just on the edge of falling asleep.

There is either being caught up in thinking, or there is a moment of rigpa.

She rebuked herself for this thought. /she was, she saw, always having thoughts for which she rebuked herself. It then flashed across her mind that the thoughts for which she rebuked herself selfom turned out to be other than shrewd and fruitful thoughts nand she rebuked herself for this as well.

One lives in the very present moment; lives intently. There is no urge to be doing: being is the highest good.

Our beliefs are the lens through which we see the world. They are the glasses we put on in the morning, which provide the patterns we see. As we become more self-aware, we can identify our patterns, and then, to the extent we desire, change our lenses.

Although I knew enough Freud to believe that the sex urge was an important mainspring of life, it still seemed to me that any conscious manifestation of sex was necessarily ludicrous. Defecation and copulation were two activities which made a human being totally ridiculous. At least the former could be conducted in private, but the latter by definition demanded a partner. I discovered, though, that whenever I ventured this opinion, people took it as a joke.

nothing would have meaning, because the knowing was itself the meaning; beyond that there was nothing to know.

HE AWOKE, opened his eyes.

alone in his struggle to bring the truth to its people. He consoled himself by recalling that it is only in each man's own consciousness that the isolation exists; objectively man is always a part of something.

According to popular belief, the feebler the individual consciousness, the better equipped it is to serve as an instrument through which God can speak.

He was somewhere, he had come back through the vast regions from nowhere; there was the certitude of an infinite sadness at the core of his consciousness, but the sadness was reassuring, because it alone was familiar.

You must watch the universe as it cracks over your head.