Quotes About Consciousness

Basically it is your choice. No matter what spiritual path you have taken, no matter what experiences you have had, choice is still choice. Spiritual development doesn't happen automatically. It is choosing the eye of Tao that sees both the whole view of things from a distance and the core of reality from deep inside.

Where do we begin this process of reevaluation of values? It makes sense to begin with our mind, which is the tool we use to evaluate. Once we make sure it is functioning as it should, we can feel confident in using it to think about our beliefs and priorities.

MY understanding is that Mago Castle is not a physical place, but a symbol of the state of human consciousness and energy that is completely one with divinity. In that sense, Mago Castle is inside us.

No matter how good your eyesight, if you don't open your eyes, you will not see anything. So too with the Tao. Everyone has eyes to see the Tao, but opening those eyes is a separate issue. The Tao is there, in that place beyond the limits of rational logic, judgment, ideas, and ego. To see the Tao, we must take away the blindfold of judgment, ideas, and ego that blinds our eyes.

That absolute, ultimate reality is always there within us (as it is everywhere else, as well). whether we are aware of it or not, it is there, like the sun shining behind the clouds, invisible because of the clouds, but undeniably there. The sun of our inner nature, the LifeParticle Sun, is always shining, whether we see it or not. And because it is already there, we don't need to create or achieve it. We just have to acknowledge it.

Honesty is proportional to clarity of soul and brightness of consciousness. Being honest allows your soul to be clear and your consciousness to be bright. Genuine honesty, therefore, is not for winning recognition from others, but for getting recognition from ourselves and for recognizing our conscience within. Honesty makes us honorable in our own eyes.

The body and ego are not my essence; the great life energy of the cosmos is the substance of who I am, and I am one with all things.

When you awaken to true nothingness and all the empty fictions you once thought of as "Me" disappear, then self-existent life without beginning and without end finally touches your heart.

Observe yourself floating in space, Pure and unadulterated as at birth, Neither man nor woman... Without name or title... Pure life... is what you observe. You are infinitely peaceful, Within a space inviolable to all, A space of pure consciousness...

it is important to realize that you are fundamentally made up of life particles..

The master of your brain is your soul

When we are able to use our brain functions integratively, we can use our brain and the power of consciousness for a purpose that is big enough to benefit all.

Your mind create everything. Your conscious mind has much greater power than you can ever imagine. Your mind can create blessings or disasters, can heal or harm, can bring abundance or absence. It is up to your mind whether the world looks hopeful or hopeless.

Enlightenment is choice.

wake up and pay attention.

You can encounter the great life within you when you recover the zero point. What you encounter that great life, all limits created by the thoughts and emotions vanish and infinite creativity springs forth.

The MindScreen is the most highly-developed function of our brain.

Being is a more awakened state than having. To be is to exist in a space of pure choice and creation

When your mind is still and undisturbed by stimulation, the true nature naturally shines out and you can directly see what you really are.

Thoughts you feel as you act are living thoughts. Thoughts you think while you don't act are dead thoughts.

We humans are evolution made conscious; hence, our choices for and in the world shape the future of the world.

It is important to point out here that I am distinguishing catholicity (with a lowercase "c") from Catholicism (with an uppercase "C") insofar as catholicity or orientation toward wholeness is intrinsic to nature and organic consciousness, whereas I see the institutionalization of catholicity expressed (or thwarted) in Catholicism.

Totally grasped by the divine eros, Teilhard vowed to steep himself in the sea of matter, to bathe in its fiery water, to plunge into Earth where it is deepest and most violent, to struggle in its currents, and to drink of its waters (HM, 72). Filled with impassioned love for Sophia, he dedicated himself body and soul to the ongoing work needed to transform the cosmos to a new level of consciousness and to transformative love

Each individual is "the incommunicable expression of a conscious point of view upon the universe. Thus the task for every person is to build her or his soul; that is, each must assemble the widely scattered elements of one's experience into a unified whole.