Quotes About Consciousness

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you will ever have.

All problems are illusions of the mind.

Awareness is the greatest agent for change.

Can you look without the voice in your head commenting, drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to figure something out?

If your mind carries a heavy burden of past, you will experience more of the same. The past perpetuates itself through lack of presence. The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future.

The moment you become aware of the ego in you, it is strictly speaking no longer the ego, but just an old, conditioned mind-pattern. Ego implies unawareness. Awareness and ego cannot coexist.

Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.

Being must be felt. It can't be thought.

Whenever you become anxious or stressed, outer purpose has taken over, and you lost sight of your inner purpose. You have forgotten that your state of consciousness is primary, all else secondary.

Only the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free.

Nothing has happened in the past; it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in the Now.

You are not IN the universe, you ARE the universe, an intrinsic part of it. Ultimately you are not a person, but a focal point where the universe is becoming conscious of itself. What an amazing miracle.

The beginning of freedom is the realization that you are not "the thinker." The moment you start watching the thinker, a higher level of consciousness becomes activated. You then begin to realize that there is a vast realm of intelligence beyond thought, that thought is only a tiny aspect of that intelligence. You also realize that all the things that truly matter – beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace – arise from beyond the mind. You begin to awaken.

Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn't very much.

Your outer journey may contain a million steps; your inner journey only has one: the step you are taking right now.

Become conscious of being conscious.

Defining yourself through thought is limiting yourself.

It is when we are trapped in incessant streams of compulsive thinking that the universe really disintegrates for us, and we lose the ability to sense the interconnectedness of all that exists.

Die to the past every moment. You don't need it. Only refer to it when it is absolutely relevant to the present. Feel the power of this moment and the fullness of Being. Feel your presence.

You become most powerful in whatever you do if the action is performed for its own sake rather than as a means to protect, enhance, or conform to your role identity.

Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.

The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life.

Knowing yourself is to be rooted in Being, instead of lost in your mind.

Being an outsider to some extent, someone who does not fit in with others or is rejected by them for whatever reason, makes life difficult, but it also places you at an advantage as far as enlightenment is concerned. It takes you out of unconsciousness almost by force.