Quotes About Consciousness

You can turn off the song the way you cannot the actual experience.

Pure suffering has a consciousness, a tongue, a heart all its own and even the memory of it is but a pale unreality when compared with the actual experience.

To stay close and intimate with experience is to stay close to the mind; the nitty gritty mind of the way things really are.

In order to experience the Ultimate Reality you have to be out of your mind.

God himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages.

A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity.

Any attempt at liberation, no matter how great it might be, if it does not take into consideration the necessity of dissolving the ego, it is condemned to failure.

Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.

Seven national crimes: 1. I don't think. 2. I don't know. 3. I don't care. 4. I am too busy. 5. I leave well enough alone. 6. I have no time to read and find out. 7. I am not interested.

The gain isn't counted to the recluse and inactive that, having nothing to measure themselves by and never being tested by failure, they simmer and soak perpetually in conscious complacency.

The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.

What you see with the eyes of faith is more real than what you see with your optical eyes.

What good is it that Christ was born [2,000] years ago if he is not born now in your heart?

Faith is a never-ending pool of clarity, reaching far beyond the margins of consciousness. We all know more than we know we know.

Maybe the tragedy of the human race was that we had forgotten that we are each divine.

For the facts that make up the world need the non-factual as a vantage point from which to be perceived.

There is no need for faith where there is no consciousness of an element of risk.

Faith, consciousness, and awareness all exist beyond the thinking mind.

When you say "Yes" to something, you include something you do want in your experience. When you say "No" to something, you include something you don't want in your experience.

Faith today is not enough for tomorrow. It must be constantly renewed by a conscious act.

They'd put the anesthesia mask on him, and the next instant he was in the recovery room. It was a blackout so complete, it made him doubt the immortality of the soul.

As a man thinketh so is he? The faith of a mustard seed? I planted these words in my thoughts, and still, mind wound up lost, between my dreams and reality.

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.