Quotes About Consciousness

Believe me, there is no goal, nor a way to reach it. You are the way and the goal, there is nothing else to reach except yourself.

Every day set the simple goal of trying to be more awake and less distracted.

Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. 'I am' is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry. When spontaneous and natural it is realization.

The highest goal of spirituality is Self-realization, but what does that mean? It means to feel your Self as a living reality in this moment, and there is always only this moment. (10)

That's basically what I have people do, I have them become aware. Once you set a goal, once you become aware of something, it becomes part of your consciousness.

The goal actually, is to wake up now.

God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.

I have learned from an early age to abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.

Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.

He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.

When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself.

When you become senile, you won't know it.

Knowledge can bring many things..but the consciousness of the heart brings love, and love brings everything

If you have your full attention in the moment, you will see only love...

The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.

If you take good care of any disease by eating well, sleeping well, being aware of your health, consciously wanting to be well, not smoking, et cetera, you are doing all the things you should be doing anyway, but somehow having a disease makes them easier to do. A human without a disease is like a ship without a rudder.

willingness or ability to show up fully in our lives and live them as if they really mattered, in the only moment we ever get, which is this one

We are capable of directly sensing things like the sounds of birds, the scent of beautiful flowers and the sight of a loved one's smile. And we know with the heart as well as the head. Thinking is not all there is to conscious experience. The mind is bigger and more encompassing than thought alone.

come to realise that thoughts come and go of their own accord; that you are not your thoughts. You can watch as they appear in your mind, seemingly from thin air, and watch again as they disappear, like a soap bubble bursting. You come to the profound understanding that thoughts and feelings (including negative ones) are transient. They come and they go, and ultimately, you have a choice about whether to act on them or not.

Pure awareness transcends thinking.

are you driven by the daily routines that force you to live in your head rather than in your life?

Meditation is a simple practice that gains its power from repetition. It's only through this that we can become aware of the repeating patterns in our own minds.