Quotes About Consciousness

I already know. And it has nothing to do with what you can see happening in my body; it's what's happening in my soul.

Dreaming isn't as simple as it seems. On the contrary, it can be quite dangerous. When we dream, we put powerful engines in motion and can no longer hide the true meaning of our life from ourselves. When we dream, we also make a choice of what price to pay." Now. The longer I take, the more suffering I'll cause us both.

Past and future exist only in our memory. The present moment though, is outside of time, it's Eternity. It isn;t what you did in the past that will affect the present. It's what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.

The problem is that they don't even realize that they're walking a new road every day. They don't see that the fields are new and the seasons change. All they think about is food and water

we are responsible for the Universe, because we are the Universe' (Brida)

There must be a language that doesn't depend on words, the boy thought… He was learning lots of new things. Some of them were things that he had already experienced, and weren't really new, but that he had never perceived before. And he hadn't perceived them because he had become accustomed to them…

Don't say that again. Life might be listening, and give you less the next time.

live each day as if it were my last.

We must love because we are loved by God. We must be conscious of death if we are to have a proper understanding of life. We must struggle in order to grow

You have two choices: to control your mind or to let your mind control you. You're already familiar with the latter experience, allowing yourself to be swept along by fears, neuroses, insecurity, for all we have self-destructive tendencies.

Everything is fresh, the essence of realization.

One of the main discoveries of meditation is seeing how we continually run away from the present moment, how we avoid being here just as we are.

It's as if you were in a spaceship going to the moon, and you looked back at this tiny planet Earth and realized that things were vaster than any mind could conceive and you just couldn't handle it, so you started worrying about what you were going to have for lunch. There you are in outer space with this sense of the world being so vast, and then you bring it all down into this very tiny world of worrying about what's for lunch... We do this all the time.

the life span of any particular emotion is only one and a half minutes. After that we have to revive the emotion and get it going again.

When thoughts come up, touch them very lightly, like a feather touching a bubble. Let the whole thing be soft and gentle, but at the same time precise.

We don't sit in meditation to become good meditators. We sit in meditation so that we'll be more awake in our lives.

Refraining is very powerful because it gives us an opportunity to acknowledge when we're caught and then to get unstuck.

If we want to learn about our future, we should look at what we're doing now.

In sitting meditation, our practice is to watch our thoughts arise, label them thinking, and return to the breath.

Whatever you're given can wake you up or put you to sleep. That's the challenge of now: What are you going to do with what you have already—your body, your speech, your mind?

Whether we're eating or working or meditating or listening or talking, the reason that we're here in this world at all is to study ourselves. In fact, it has been said that studying ourselves provides all the books we need.

We're here to get to know and study ourselves. The path, the way to do that, our main vehicle, is going to be meditation, and some sense of general wakefulness.

We can lead our life so as to become more awake to who we are and what we're doing rather than trying to improve or change or get rid of who we are or what we're doing.

Everything in our lives can wake us up or put us to sleep, and basically it's up to us to let it wake us up.