Quotes About Consciousness

Acute crises and dysfunction always precede or coincide with any evolutionary advancement or gain in consciousness. All life-forms need obstacles and challenges in order to evolve. In the case of the ego, most of the challenges it encounters are self-created through its unconscious patterns. Eventually, the ego brings about its own demise. In that sense, it can be considered a necessary precursor for the next stage in human evolution, which is the awakening of consciousness.

So don't seek to become free of desire or "achieve" enlightenment. Become present. Be there as the observer of the mind. Instead of quoting the Buddha, be the Buddha, be "the awakened one," which is what the word buddha means.

Nur wenn du dich auf den gegenwärtigen Augenblick ausrichtest, gewinnst du Zugang zu dieser Kraft.

Know Thyself. What those words imply is this: Before you ask any other question, first ask the most fundamental question of your life: Who am I?

La salvación no está en otro lugar en el tiempo o en el espacio. Está aquí y ahora.

la mente siempre tratará de meterlo en una cajita y después ponerle una etiqueta.

We can never understand this higher order through thinking about it because whatever we think about is content; whereas, the higher order emanates from the formless realm of consciousness, from universal intelligence. But we can glimpse it, and more than that, align ourselves with it, which means be conscious participants in the unfolding of that higher purpose.

Sei also dem Leben treu, indem du deinem inneren Ziel treu bleibst. Wenn du präsent bist und voll und ganz in dem aufgehst, was du tust, werden deine Taten mit spiritueller Kraft aufgeladen. Zuerst mag noch keine merkliche Veränderung zu erkennen sein in dem, was du tust – nur im Wie. Dein vorrangiges Ziel ist es jetzt, dafür zu sorgen, dass Bewusstsein in alles einfließen kann, was du tust.

When you are aware that you are thinking, that awareness is not part of thinking. It is a different dimension of consciousness.

The pain-body wants to survive, just like every other entity in existence, and it can only survive if it gets you to unconsciously identify with it.

en su aliado, no en su enemigo. Esto transformará su vida milagrosamente.

Anything unconscious dissolves when you shine the light of consciousness on it.

You can improve your life situation, but you cannot improve your life. Life is primary. Life is your deepest inner Being. It is already whole, complete, perfect.

Many people still live like that, like sleepwalkers, trapped in old dysfunctional mind-sets that continuously re-create the same nightmarish reality

When you look and listen in this way, you may become aware of a subtle and at first perhaps hardly noticeable sense of calm. Some people feel it as a stillness in the background. Others call it peace. When consciousness is no longer totally absorbed by thinking, some of it remains in its formless, unconditioned, original state. This is inner space.

You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You find yourself by coming into the present.

So the single most vital step on your journey toward enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind.

The best indicator of your level of consciousness is how you deal with life's challenges when they come. Through those challenges, an already unconscious person tends to become more deeply unconscious, and a conscious person more intensely conscious.

The transformation of human consciousness is no longer a luxury, so to speak, available only to a few isolated individuals, but a necessity if humankind is not to destroy itself. At the present time, the dysfunction of the old consciousness and the arising of the new are both accelerating. Paradoxically, things are getting worse and better at the same time, although the worse is more apparent because it makes so much "noise.

We can never understand this higher order through thinking about it because whatever we think about is content;

Only if we are still enough inside and the noise of thinking subsides can we become aware that there is a hidden harmony here, a sacredness, a higher order in which everything has its perfect place and could not be other than what it is and the way it is.

You cannot understand it through thought, but you can sense it when you let go of thought, become still and alert, and don't try to understand or explain.

with the higher consciousness that wants to be born into this world. For those who hold on to the old patterns, there will be increasing pain, violence, confusion, and madness.

Es imposible formarse una imagen mental del Ser, y nadie puede pretender su posesión exclusiva.