Quotes About Consciousness

Man has but three events in his life: to be born, to live, and to die. He is not conscious of his birth, he suffers at his death and he forgets to live.

There are three great events in our lives: birth, life and death. Of birth we have no conscience; with death, we suffer; and, concerning life, we forget to live it.

He knows the universe, and himself he does not know.

Whoever has this Gnosis...takes what is his and restores it to himself. By Gnosis, a man knows 'whence he has come and whither he is going.

Cum reu?e?te adev?rul s? se desprind? din aparen?ele care îl ascund ?i totodat? îl constituie? Izbucne?te, într-o seara, cu brutalitate? Sau î?i croie?te drum încet în mintea oamenilor?

Oare încerc?m sau suntem capabili vreodat? s? în?elegem ceea ce nu suntem?

But the ultimate question is, Do the eyes receive other things than what the mind projects on them; aren't they really mirrors reflecting the mind's emissions? Perhaps we live in a world invented by ourselves.

A living speck-the merest dab of life-capable of pleasure and pain, is far more interesting to me than all the immensities of mere matter.

I do not believe in God, for that implies an effort of the will — I see God everywhere!

Right, right," I say, knowing that, one, I'll never be anywhere near one hundred and seventy feet deep, and two, I'll never forget I can't breathe without air.

And he was apprehensive that some light, emanating from within his body, or from his true consciousness, might not be illuminating him, might not, in some way from inside the scaly carapace, give off a reflection of that true form and make him visible to men, who would then have to hunt him down.

Anything we think we know about a situation or someone else or even ourselves is always limited by that old trap, point of view. Just as we are all of us stuck in time, so we are also stuck inside ourselves, doomed to live and die inside our own thick skulls. "As

We can never see our own faces directly, never look straight into our own eyes.

The world is directed towards the perceiver, it celebrates the ultimate perceiver. He who is established in the Self is in no way interested in theologies and cosmologies.

You are your own nearest environment, so begin with yourself.

When you act you are one with the action, it is only afterwards that the ego appropriates the act from which it was absent, and says "I have done this." At the moment of acting there is only acting, without an actor.

What do you think about astral travel? And about getting out of the body? ... I do not know about it. I am very happy in this body. Why should I get out? [laughter]

Be knowingly silent as often as you can and you will no longer be a prey to the desire to be this or that. You will discover in the everyday events of life the deep meaning behind the fulfilment of the whole, for the ego is totally absent.

Advaita is not a system, a religion or technique. It is not even a philosophy. It is simply the truth.

achievements. The world is directed towards the perceiver, it celebrates the ultimate perceiver. He who is established in the Self is in no way interested in theologies and cosmologies.

Fancy rules over two thirds of the universe, the past, and future, while reality is confined to the present

Hell--or Heaven--is here, now, inside.

the wild man is a symbol of masculinity that is instinctive, untamed by women, in touch with nature and part of nature - that will be dishonored and disregarded, even feared, until men seek to know and bring this source of strength and masculinity into consciousness, and into the culture

What we know through a connection with the Self is divine wisdom.