Quotes About Consciousness

Trance is a natural everyday experience.

How we pay attention to the present moment...determin es the character of our experience and...the quality of our lives.

Don't ask the mind to confirm what is beyond the mind. Direct experience is the only valid confirmation.

The feeling we experience while we look at a picture is not to be distinguished from the picture or from ourselves. the feeling, picture, and ourselves are united in one mystery.

I am profoundly moved and persuaded by the near-death experience.

Heaven is within us, and we experience it to the degree that we become conscious of it.

When you transform your mind, everything you experience is transformed.

Every thought has a consequence. And every experience has a causative thought behind it.

We live almost completely immersed in a socially constructed reality that so fully absorbs our energy and attention that virtually none remains to experience the wonder of our existence.

When you start to try to understand everything in terms of words, the understanding of the words becomes the experience, and the experience gets lost.

The mind is the source of all experience, and by changing the direction of the mind, we can change the quality of everything we experience.

Nobody can have your psychedelic experience for you; you just have to screw your courage up and raise the cup to your lips or smoke the pipe or whatever it is and face what's in there.

The abundance you desire to experience must first be an experience in your mind.

The experience of the self is always a defeat for the ego.

Thinking is wonderful, but the experience is even more wonderful.

Sometimes consciousness devises an obstacle in order to have the experience of transcending it.

When we experience our own desire for transformation, we are feeling the universe evolving through us.

Synchronistic events constitute moments in which a 'cosmic' or 'greater' meaning becomes gradually conscious in an individual; generally it is a shaking experience.

In my experience, we don't make thoughts appear, they just appear. One day, I noticed that their appearance just wasn't personal. Noticing that really makes it simpler to inquire.

Our emotions are the way we experience the world. They are never wrong. It is only the conscious mind mismanaging that gets in the way.

In reality, our mind is the creator of all the things we experience.

Know what [drug] you're using, decide just why you're using it, and you can have a rich experience.

True meditation is letting go of manipulating our experience.

What you believe you experience.