Quotes About Consciousness

Cuando tu conciencia se dirige hacia fuera, surgen la mente y el mundo. Cuando se dirige hacia dentro, alcanza su propia Fuente y regresa a casa, a lo No Manifestado.

What remains is the light of consciousness in which perceptions, experiences, thoughts, and feelings come and go. That is Being, that is the deeper, true I. When I know myself as that, whatever happens in my life is no longer of absolute but only of relative importance. I honor it, but it loses its absolute seriousness, its heaviness.

Cuando usted aprenda a ser testigo de sus pensamientos y emociones, que es una parte esencial de estar presente, puede quedar sorprendido cuando se dé cuenta por primera vez de la "estática" de fondo de inconsciencia ordinaria que tiene y de qué pocas veces, si acaso alguna, usted está verdaderamente a gusto consigo mismo.

True self is rooted in being

Make the Now the primary focus of your life. Whereas before you dwelt in time and paid brief visits to the Now, have your dwelling place in the Now and pay brief visits to the past and future when required to deal with the practical aspects of your life situation.

Once you can feel what it means to be present, it becomes much easier to simply choose to step out of the time dimension whenever time is not needed for practical purposes and move more deeply into the Now.

Being present is always infinitely more powerful than anything one could say or do, although sometimes being present can give rise to words or actions.

Emotion arises at the place where mind and body meet. It is the body's reaction to your mind — or you might say a reflection of your mind in the body.

But don't let it go to your head, because up there is where a remnant of ego may be hiding. You are still an ordinary human. What is extraordinary is what comes through you into this world. But that essence you share with all beings.

DIE TO THE PAST EVERY MOMENT. You don't need it. Only refer to it when it is absolutely relevant to the present.

An] unconscious fear of facing the pain [...] lives in you. But if you don't face it, if you don't bring the light of your consciousness into the pain, you will be forced to relive it again and again.

No ser capaz de dejar de pensar es una calamidad terrible, pero no nos damos cuenta de ello así que se considera normal. Este ruido mental incesante nos impide encontrar ese reino de quietud interior que es inseparable del Ser. También

Now remember that an emotion is the body's reaction to your mind.

As within, so without: If humans clear inner pollution, then they will also cease to create outer pollution.

To be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of past for your identity and future for your fulfillment. It represents the most profound transformation of consciousness that you can imagine.

Koestler, The Ghost in the Machine

while a thought is in your head, an emotion has a strong physical component and so is primarily felt in the body.

If all your problems or perceived causes of suffering or unhappiness were miraculously removed for you today, but you had not become more present, more conscious, you would soon find yourself with a similar set of problems or causes of suffering, like a shadow that follows you wherever you go. Ultimately, there is only one problem: the time-bound mind itself.

How to stop creating time? Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

You do not need to wait for the world to become sane, or for somebody else to become conscious, before you can be enlightened

the pain-body is there because of certain things that happened in the past. It is the living past in you, and if you identify with it, you identify with the past.

True change happens within, not without.

your dwelling place in the Now and pay

El secreto de la vida es "morir antes de morir" y descubrir que no hay muerte.