Quotes About Consciousness

If, in short, there is a community of computers living in my head, there had also better be somebody who is in charge; and, by God, it had better be me.

You cannot behave appropriately, unless you perceive correctly. Once you perceive you are a beam of Light, that comes from the mind of God, you will carry yourself differently.

It is when our hearts are stirred that we become most aware of what they contain.

It's easier to be God than to see God.

God, as I use the word, is another name for what is. I always know God's intention: It's exactly what is in every moment.

All are seeing God always. But they do not know it.

Has it ever occurred to you that you are seeking God with His eyes?

God is the "mysterium tremendum," that appears and overthrows, but he is also the mystery of the self-evident, nearer to me than my I.

God alone is real, and all else is illusion.

Inspiration is God making contact with itself.

You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.

In some ways, all our experiences of God are beyond belief, because all conceptual beliefs pale when compared to the experiential reality.

To the mind, God is a perfect criminal. He has done such a perfect crime by creating this world that mind cannot trace how He did it. That is why the mind always freaks out about God.

Asleep or awake, writing or reading, whatever you do, you must never be without the remembrance of God.

All that is real in me is God; all that is real in God is I. The gulf between God and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing God, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.

For me, everything is God. Everything and everyone. So it was just, God needs me now, now, now.

I do not want any patronage, as I do not give any. I am a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours. I simply want to please my own conscience which is God.

Knowing the Self, God is known.

The only successful manifestation is one which brings about a change or growth in consciousness; that is, it has manifested God, or revealed him more fully as well as having manifested a form.

O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of my need for further grace.

The one place gods inarguably exist is in the human mind.

I think we can affect our own fates, but there's also a powerful energy that's the universe or God or whatever your unconscious recognizes that helps along your way.

The problem is that we have allowed our egos, the part of us which believes that we are separate from God and separate from each other, to dominate our lives.