Quotes About Consciousness

Of course, the drug does not produce the transcendent experience. It merely acts as a chemical key — it opens the mind, frees the nervous system of its ordinary patterns and structures.

Enlightenment is any experience of expanding our consciousness beyond its present limits.

The universe is contained within us, and what we experience externally is only a reflection.

The colours red, blue and green are real. The colour yellow is a mystical experience shared by everybody.

To experience relationships of substance and depth requires approaching and entering into relationships with consciousness and concern for the other.

We are not these bodies, just souls having a bodily experience.

There are no coincidences. Every event we experience and every person we meet has intentionally been put in our path to help raise our level of consciousness .

We live in a world of thought, but we think we live in a world of external experience.

The Infinite Way is not a message, it is an experience.

Time and again human consciousness fixates, and slams the door on its greatest gift, the open-endedness of infinite possibility. As a result we do not experience reality but merely our concept of it.

What we get from each moment depends on the attention we give it, and the quality of our experience reflects the quality of our awareness.

This-the immediate, everyday, and present experience-is IT, the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe.

From experience we know that whenever we are truly awake and alive, we are also truly grateful.

Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of present experience. It isn't more complicated than that.

The only way to experience an experience is to experience it

The thought you have now shapes your experience of the next moment. Practice shaping the moment.

Embodiment means we no longer say, I had this experience; we say, I am this experience.

We're all subjective beings and trapped in our own realities and our own biographical stories and physical bodies and our histories - and that's the only way we can experience the world.

Not wanting to see, not wanting to be in touch with one's experience is something akin to cognitive laziness, an eclipse of the experiencer or inner witnessing in the person.

You cannot describe truly what you are but you can enjoy and directly experience what you are. Therein lies the joy of existence.

Nothing is true in self-discovery unless it is true in your own experience. This is the only protection against the robot levels of the mind.

The world of immediate experience the world in which we find ourselves living must be comprehended, transformed, even subverted in order to become that which it really is.

Enjoy the experience, don't just experience the experience

We live not only in a world of thoughts, but also in a world of things. Words without experience are meaningless.