Quotes About Consciousness

It's not logical, self-realization. If it was, everybody would be self-realized because everybody is logical.

How strange it is to be human. For a short moment we are conscious of the glories of life then we become silent again. Perhaps there is more. Look more deeply into the matter.

The surface personality is only the beginning of what we are. So as we meditate, we still that surface personality, we can see beyond it, and we see that we encompass multitudes.

You are not what you seem to be. You are one of God's endless dreams in search of wakefulness. Meditation is wakefulness.

We shall come to honor all of Life sooner or later. Our choices are when that shall happen, and the quality of experience that we shall have as we learn.

Consult your spirit, your soul on everything.

You are not a soul, you are not a mind, you are not a body. You are the controller of all three.

Be the alter not the alternative.

The fact is that there is nothing more beautiful, more worthy or more conscious than you.

When you do not consciously relate to your body, your mind does not relate consciously to you.

The poet who walks by moonlight is conscious of a tide in his thought which is to be referred to lunar influence.

You can make hell out of heaven and heaven out of hell. It's all in the mind.

I ain't sleeping. I'm just taking a good look at the insides of my eyelids.

Enlarge the pupil of the eye, so that the body with its attendant personality will no longer obstruct the view. Immortality is then experienced as a present fact.

God is that infinite All of which man knows himself to be a finite part.

A man who is enticed by sinful thoughts is blinded by them, and he sees the action of sin in himself, but he can not see the cause of this action.

We make real that to which we pay attention. The Master knows this. The Master places himself at choice with regard to that which she chooses to make real.

The world is in the condition that it's in because the world is full of sleepwalkers.

All of it is God, and there is nothing else.

Heaven-as you call it-is nowhere. Let's just put some space between the w and the h in that word and you'll see that heaven is now...here.

The idea came to me that I was, am, and will be, but perhaps will not become. This did not scare me. There was for me in being an intensity I did not feel in becoming.

We are not responsible for every thought that goes wandering through our mind. We are, however, responsible for the ones we hold there. We're especially responsible for the one's we put there.

The moment you enter into the world of words you start falling away from that which is. The more you enter into language, the farther you are away from existence.

Zen is the only religion in the world that teaches sudden enlightenment. It says that enlightenment takes no time, it can happen in a single, split second.