Quotes About Consciousness

MAKE IT A HABIT TO ASK YOURSELF: What's going on inside me at this moment? That question will point you in the right direction. But don't analyze, just watch. Focus your attention within. Feel the energy of the emotion.

With the seeing comes the power of choice...

THE EGO'S SEARCH FOR WHOLENESS Another aspect of the emotional pain that is an intrinsic part of the egoic mind is a deep-seated sense of lack or incompleteness, of not being whole. In some people, this is conscious, in others unconscious. If it is conscious, it manifests as the unsettling and constant feeling of not being worthy or good enough. If it is unconscious, it will only be felt indirectly as an intense craving, wanting and needing.

So who is the experiencer? You are. And who are you? Consciousness. And what is consciousness? This question cannot be answered. The moment you answer it, you have falsified it, made it into another object. Consciousness, the traditional word for which is spirit, cannot be known in the normal sense of the word, and seeking it is futile.

Así pues el único paso vital en su camino hacia la iluminación es este: aprenda a dejar de identificarse con su mente. Cada

You can improve your life situation, but you cannot improve your life. Life is primary. Life is your deepest inner Being.

Siente la vida dentro de tu cuerpo. Eso te ancla en el Ahora.

The recognition of the false is already the arising of the real.

MAKE IT A HABIT TO ASK YOURSELF: What's going on inside me at this moment? That question will point you in the right direction. But don't analyze, just watch. Focus your attention within. Feel the energy of the emotion. If there is no emotion present, take your attention more deeply into the inner energy field of your body. It is the doorway into Being. CHAPTER

A very effective way of doing this is simply to take the focus of your attention away from thinking and direct it into the body, where Being can be felt in the first instance as the invisible energy field that gives life to what you perceive as the physical body.

The problems of the mind cannot be solved on the level of the mind.

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 past and future when required to deal with the practical aspects of your life situation. Always say "yes" to the present moment.

Most of the time it is not you who speaks when you say or think "I" but some aspect of that mental construct, the egoic self. Once you awaken, you still use the word "I," but it will come from a much deeper place within yourself.

When you can no longer feel the life that you are, you are likely to try to fill up your life with things.

Only those who have transcended the world can bring about a better world.

Your entire life unfolds in this constant Now. Even past or future moments only exist when you remember or anticipate them, and you do so by thinking about them in the only moment there is: this one.

Some people never forget the first time they disidentified from their thoughts and thus briefly experienced the shift in identity from being the content of their mind to being the awareness in the background. For others it happens in such a subtle way they hardly notice it, or they just notice an influx of joy or inner peace without knowing the reason.

In the greater scheme of things, human beings are meant to evolve into conscious beings, and those who don't will suffer the consequences of their unconsciousness. They are out of alignment with the evolutionary impulse of the universe.

The pain that you create now is always some form of nonacceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is. On

Be at least as interested in what goes on inside you as what happens outside. If you get the inside

La emoción surge en el punto donde cuerpo y mente se encuentran. Es la reacción del cuerpo a la mente o, dicho de otra forma, el reflejo de la mente en el cuerpo.

When you say, I enjoy doing this or that, it is really a misperception. It makes it appear that the joy comes from what you do, but that is not the case. Joy does not come from what you do, it flows into what you do and thus into this world from deep within you.

Be at least as interested in what goes on inside you as what happens outside. If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.

Awareness of the inner body is consciousness remembering its origin and returning to the Source.