Quotes About Consciousness

Our thinking minds deprive us of the happiness that comes when we are living fully in the moment.

Happiness comes uninvited: and the moment that you are conscious that you are happy, you are no longer happy.

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

When you go into the space of nothingness, everything becomes known.

Happiness is a state of which you are unconscious. The moment you are aware that you are happy, you cease to be happy.

If you look at a thing, the very fact of your looking changes it...if you think about yourself, that very fact changes you.

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Authentic happiness comes from being in conscious connection with our inner being rather than dependency on outer things and circumstances which are constantly in a state of flux.

Happiness is self-connectedness.

Beyond happiness and unhappiness is truth. Truth is not affected by anything in the relative world. Truth is the unifying aspect of existence.

Purity is something that can be consciously developed. Expect to have impure moments, thoughts, and ideas. One day they will go away, and then there will be happiness.

Happiness and suffering are states of mind, and so their main causes cannot be found outside the mind.

Become more and more centered in the Self. To live more and more in the thought that God is here in your consciousness.

Happiness: there are a series of rules, and if you fail to follow them, your conscious mind will refuse to accept the idea that you're happy.

Whenever you meditate, there are glimpses. Then the mind comes in and says, 'Be happy! Look, I have done it.' And immediately the contact is lost.

Happiness is in the mind and the mind is the universe. Your mind is the universe, not just this physical universe that you perceive through your senses.

Meditation is one of the most direct and powerful ways to awaken to who we really are and to experience happiness as a state of consciousness that already exists within us.

Very few people are happy in this world. Most are miserable. Even in their so-called happiness, they are unhappy; it is so short of ecstasy, of god-consciousness; it's almost pitiful.

That is why I don't believe much in what Mr. Descartes said: "I think, therefore I am." I think, therefore I'm lost in my thinking. I'm not there.

I don't want to be the one who says life is beautiful. I want to be the one who feels it.

You are an ocean in a drop of dew, all the universes in a thin sack of blood.What are these pleasures then, these joys, these worldsthat you keep reaching for, hoping they will make you more alive?

Suffering just means you're having a bad dream. Happiness means you're having a good dream. Enlightenment means getting out of the dream altogether.

Habitual identification with discursive thought is the source of human suffering

Our habitual failure to recognise thought as thought, our habitual identification with discursive thought, is the primary source of human suffering.