Quotes About Consciousness

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, that essence you share with all beings.

Being can be felt as the ever-present I am that is beyond name and form. To feel and thus to know that you are and to abide in that deeply rooted state is enlightenment, is the truth that Jesus says will make you free.

El esplendor del momento nos deslumbra de tal modo que nuestras compulsivas mentes charlatanas hacen una pausa, como para no llevarnos mentalmente a un lugar diferente del aquí y el ahora.

Mind can neither recognize nor create beauty. Only for a few seconds, while you were completely present, was that beauty or that sacredness there.

When you don't know who you are, you create a mind-made self as a substitute for your beautiful, divine being and cling to that fearful and needy self. Protecting and enhancing that false sense of self then becomes your primary motivating force.

Cuanto más te identificas con el pensamiento, con lo que te gusta o disgusta, con tus juicios e interpretaciones, es decir, cuanto menos presente estás como conciencia observante, más fuerte es la carga de energía emocional, seas consciente de ella o no. Si no puedes sentir tus emociones, si estás desconectado de ellas, acabarás sintiéndolas a un nivel puramente físico, como un problema o síntoma físico.

Time is the horizontal dimension of life, the surface layer of reality. Then there is the vertical dimension of depth, accessible to you only through the portal of the present moment.

What a liberation to realize that the voice in my head is not who i am. Who am i then? The one who sees that.

Unhappiness spreads more easily than a physical disease. Through the law of resonance, it triggers and feeds latent negativity in others, unless they are immune — that is, highly conscious.

At some level, however, she must have realized that her pain originated within herself, that she was a burden to herself. She was ready to awaken, and this is why she had come.

Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of consciousness and the burning up of the ego. The man on the cross is an archetypal image. He is every man and every woman. As long as you resist suffering, it is a slow process because the resistance creates more ego to burn up. When you accept suffering, however, there is an acceleration of that process which is brought about by the fact that you suffer consciously.

The seeing is freeing.

Here is a new spiritual practice for you: don't take your thoughts too seriously.

Have you ever experienced, done, thought, or felt anything outside the Now? Do you think you ever will? Is it possible for anything to happen or be outside the Now? The answer is obvious, is it not? Nothing ever happened in the past; it happened in the Now.

Moreover, as long as you are identified with your mind, the ego runs your life, as I pointed out earlier. Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat.

Entonces usted comienza a darse cuenta de que hay un vasto reino de inteligencia más allá del pensamiento, que el pensamiento es sólo un minúsculo aspecto de esa inteligencia. También se da cuenta de que todo lo que importa verdaderamente — la belleza, el amor, la creatividad, la alegría, la paz interior — surgen de un lugar más allá de la mente. Usted comienza a despertar.

Thought can at best point to the truth, but it never is the truth.

Ultimately, there is only one problem: the time-bound mind itself. There is no salvation in time. You cannot be free in the future. PRESENCE IS THE KEY to freedom, so you can only be free now.

You cannot be both unhappy and fully present in the Now.

El mensaje de Eckhart es: el problema de la humanidad está profundamente arraigado en la mente misma. O más bien, en nuestra identificación errónea con nuestra mente.

The fact is: Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world. You are withholding it because deep down you think you are small and that you have nothing to give.

Cuanto más identificado esté con su pensamiento, sus gustos y sus odios, sus juicios e interpretaciones, es decir cuanto menos presente esté como la conciencia que observa, más fuerte será la carga de energía emocional

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. 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 past and future when required to deal with the practical aspects of your life situation.

Be at least as interested in your reactions as in the situation or person that causes you to react.