Quotes About Consciousness

As you grow up, you form a mental image of who you are, based on your personal and cultural conditioning. We may call this phantom self the ego. It consists of mind activity and can only be kept going through constant thinking.

I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which all things happen. I am consciousness. I am the now. I am.

La razón por la que a algunas personas les encanta embarcarse en actividades peligrosas, como el montañismo, las carreras de autos u otras, aunque puede que no sean conscientes de ello, es que los fuerzan a entrar en el Ahora, ese estado intensamente vívido que está libre del tiempo, libre de problemas, libre del pensamiento, libre del peso de la personalidad.

El reconocimiento y la aceptación de los hechos te permite cierta libertad respecto a ellos.

reading The Power of Now

The awareness that is prior to thought, the space in which the thought—or the emotion or sense perception

If you can recognize, even occasionally, the thoughts that go through your mind as simply thoughts, if you can witness your own mental-emotional reactive patterns as they happen, then that dimension is already emerging in you as the awareness in which thoughts and emotions happen — the timeless inner space in which the content of your life unfolds.

estamos conectados, más que separados, con el resto de la vida y el espectro completo de la conciencia comprende tanto la dimensión física como una multitud de dimensiones no físicas de la realidad.

El sufrimiento necesita del tiempo; no puede sobrevivir en el Ahora.

Thinking is only a small aspect of consciousness. Thought cannot exist without consciousness, but consciousness does not need thought.

An essential part of the awakening is the recognition of the unawakened you, the ego as it thinks, speaks, and acts, as well as the recognition of the collectively conditioned mental processes that perpetuate the unawakened state.

Todas las adicciones surgen de una negativa inconsciente a encarar y traspasar el propio dolor. Todas las adicciones empiezan con dolor y terminan con dolor. Cualquiera que sea la sustancia que origine la adicción —alcohol, comida, drogas (legales o ilegales) o una persona—, estás usando algo o a alguien para encubrir tu dolor.

When Being becomes conscious of itself — that's presence.

the "normal" state of mind of most human beings contains a strong element of what we might call dysfunction or even madness.

Then the mind is using you. You are unconsciously identified with it, so you don't even know that you are its slave. It's almost as if you were possessed without knowing it, and so you take the possessing entity to be yourself. The beginning

The emotion is the relative truth of your state of mind at that time. Watch the emotion. You are the watcher, not the emotion.

If you are able to stay alert and present at that time and watch whatever you feel within, rather than be taken over by it, it affords an opportunity for the most powerful spiritual practice, and a rapid transmutation of all past pain becomes possible.

Todo lo que puedo hacer es recordarle lo que ha olvidado. El conocimiento vivo, antiguo y sin embargo siempre nuevo, se activa entonces y se libera desde el interior de todas las células de su cuerpo.

The mind cannot forgive. Only you can. You become present, you enter your body, you feel the vibrant peace and stillness that emanate from Being.

El Ser puede percibirse como el yo soy siempre presente que está más allá del nombre y la forma.

The greater part of human pain is self-created - some form of unconscious resistance to what *is*. The intensity of the pain depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment, and this in turn depends on how strongly you are identified with your mind.

It is no so much that you use your mind wrongly - you usually don't use it at all. It uses you. This is the disease. You believe that you are your mind. This is the delusion.

El Ser es la única Vida, eterna, siempre presente, más allá de las miles de formas de la vida que están sujetas al nacimiento y a la muerte.

there is no past nor future , it is here and NOW