Quotes About Consciousness

You can't throw your ego away, but you can use its innate desire to experience that which is beyond itself to give you the impetus to meditate.

What is revealed through the psychedelic experience, I think, is a higher dimensional perspective on reality. And I use 'higher dimensional' in the mathematical sense.

The kundalini is the energy that opens up the bands of perception. It is also the power that allows us to travel mentally from one dimension to another, from one experience to another.

We see in meditation that our experiences are endless, that we are endless, eternal spirit, not as a thought or an idea you read in a book. You have the experience yourself, every day.

I think I have a tendency to look at things subjectively rather than objectively when I reflect on my experience.

The result of your not listening to your experience is that you keep re-living it, over and over again.

What is the subject of our thought? Experience! Nothing else!

We live inside our mind. That's all there is. Everything that you experience is not external, it's internal. All your experiences are predicated upon your awareness field.

I want to connect music to its highest power - which is heightening consciousness and affecting people's reality. That can't be done in normal ways, not according to my experience.

Bliss defies description, obviously, since it annihilates you, since you're not there to experience it. You get the lead-up and the come-down, never the zenith.

It is the energy projected by an individual's own mind which creates his experience.

Zen values the simple, concrete, living facts of everyday direct personal experience.

What I lacked [in La Nausee] was a sense of reality. I have changed since. I have slowly learned to experience reality.

The social consequence of the psychedelic experience is clear thinking -which trickles down as clear speech. Empowered speech.

In a sense, sexuality is the built-in psychedelic experience that only a very few people manage to evade.

If you move as a being in every experience of your self, your being replaces your self.

Your self is yours to integrate. To integrate your self you need to be, in the midst of your experience, a little bit like your own being.

I prefer hallucinations cause they tend to make more sense than experience.

There is an eighth color that we don't have the sense apparatus to see or experience.

Beyond all experience is the one who is experiencing. Beyond all change is the One who never changes.

The drug may not be toxic, but you may be self-toxic, and you may discover this in the drug experience.

Thought that is no longer limited, brings experience that is no longer limited

If we only identify with the mortal world, then we identify with a level of scarcity and lack and brokenness, and that will be our experience.

Spirituality is a kind of virgin wisdom, a knowing that comes prior to experience.