Quotes About Consciousness

How do I know about the world? By what is within me.

You can live constrained within the confines of a solely material perspective, or choose instead the infinite field of quantum possibility.

If your eyes were open to all the beauty in the world, you would be overwhelmed with joy.

I come not to entertain you with worldly festivities but to arouse your sleeping memory of immortality.

Laughing, how can you fall asleep? It brings a state of no-mind and no-thought, and does not allow you to fall asleep.

Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.

The soul is that which denies the body. For example, that which refuses to run when the body trembles, to strike when the body is angry, to drink when the body is thirsty.

You are not the drop in the ocean, but the ocean in the drop.

I lived for 10 years in Los Angeles, and the one element that surpasses everything else - that you are very conscious of - is fear. You can smell it.

The purpose of therapy is not to remove suffering but to move through it to an enlarged consciousness that can sustain the polarity of painful opposites.

The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention.

When the intellect and affections are in harmony; when intellectual consciousness is calm and deep; inspiration will not be confounded with fancy.

Live the moment for the moment.

I vow to live fully in each moment.

If you can become a mirror you have become a meditator. Meditation is nothing but skill in mirroring. And now, no word moves inside you so there is no distraction.

There are vast realms of consciousness still undreamed of -vast ranges of experience, like humming of unseen harps, we know nothing of, within us.

You have probably had past lives where you were in better stages of mind than you are in now.

You are what you think about.

The idea is to just stop. Just wait. Don't react. Therein lies the whole universe. Just don't react.

I just listened to that inner voice. By the way, it's always a good move to listen to that inner voice... if it doesn't lead to a crime

You are at a choice-point in every moment of each circumstance, each activity, spoken word and thought.

Focus equals feeling.

Because I don't live in either my past or my future.I'm interested only in the present".

Changing mass consciousness is an individual responsibility.