Quotes About Consciousness

The beginning of freedom is the realization that you are not the possessing entity — the thinker. Knowing this enables you to observe the entity. 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

dimension comes a different kind of knowing

un pensamiento está en su mente, una emoción tiene un fuerte componente físico

Feel your whole body from within, as a single field of energy. It is almost as if you were listening or reading with your whole body. Let this be your practice in the days and weeks to come. Do not give all your attention away to the mind and the external world. By all means focus on what you are doing, but feel the inner body at the same time whenever possible. Stay rooted within. Then observe how this changes your state of consciousness and the quality of what you are doing.

Descartes, of course, the French philosopher said: I think therefore I am. If he had waited a little bit longer before saying anything, he could have come to the point of cessation of thinking and then he could have made the more profound statement: I am conscious therefore I am. Thinking is only an expression of consciousness: a surface expression of consciousness.

That is the joy of Being,' I said. 'You can only feel it when you get out of your head. Being must be felt. It can't be thought.

Anybody who is one with what he or she does is building the new earth.

Enlightenment consciously chosen means to relinquish your attachment to past and future and to make the Now the main focus of your life.

Due to a complete lack of self-awareness, they cannot tell the difference between an event and their reaction to the event.

The ego is not only the unobserved mind, the voice in the head which pretends to be you, but also the unobserved emotions that are the body's reaction to what the voice in the head is saying.

un pensamiento está en su mente, una emoción tiene un fuerte componente físico, por lo tanto se siente primariamente en el cuerpo.

Suffering needs time; it cannot survive in the Now.

Even if the voice is relevant to the situation at hand, it will interpret it in terms of the past. This is because the voice belongs to your conditioned mind, which is the result of all your past history as well as of the collective cultural mind-set you inherited.

This forgetfulness is original sin, suffering, delusion. When this delusion of utter separateness underlies and governs whatever I think, say, and do, what kind of world do I create?

If you were conscious, that is to say totally present in the Now, all negativity would dissolve almost instantly. It could not survive in your presence.

It is the quality of your consciousness at this moment that is the main determinant of what kind of future you will experience

the ultimate purpose of the world lies not within the world but in transcendence of the world.

He explained to them that he still lacked the sameness of bearing before all human beings, whether beggar or king. He was still unable to look through social roles and conceptual identities and see the sameness of being in every human.

inconsciencia ordinaria significa estar identificado con sus procesos de pensamiento y con sus emociones, sus reacciones, deseos y aversiones. Es el estado normal de la mayoría de las personas.

This is normal, and it is insane.

There is only one perpetrator of evil on the planet: human unconsciousness.

The wider the time gap between perception and thought, the more depth there is to you as a human being[.]

there is no need to go elsewhere for the truth. Let me show you how to go more deeply into what you already have.

If there were nothing but thought in you. You wouldn't even know your thinking. You would be like a dreamer who doesn't know he's dreaming. You would be as identified with thought as a dreamer is with every image in the dream.