Quotes About Consciousness

Religious people are guided in their activities not by the consequences of their actions, but by the consciousness of the destination of their lives.

Experientially there is only one religion, and it is shamanism and shamanic ecstasy.

When we look for things there is nothing but mind, and when we look for mind there is nothing but things.

Religion is the love of life in the consciousness of impotence.

The God of religion exists only in our minds. The real God exists but we can never comprehend him in our minds

When the Aggregates arise, decay and die, O bhikkhu, every moment you are born, decay, and die.

You must worship the Self in Krishna, not Krishna as Krishna.

God is not an Almighty Being watching over life on earth. God is the Event Horizon of Human Consciousness.

Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.

Zen is a way of liberation concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous but what is.

What is at the base of shame or guilt? It is the consciousness of an imbalance, or of an action in the past that has caused, and probably continues to cause, suffering.

Press them continually with memory and dream and have them waste their Present there.

Day and NightThe night is long: do not shorten it by sleep. The day is fair: do not darken it with wrongdoing.

Maybe that is the purest and most radical kind of religion – simple attention. Present-moment awareness. Instead of a belief system, awareness sees through all beliefs.

That which is capable of perceiving objective reality is, in Sufism, the human soul (ruh).

...if you give such a creature two blows with a whip, there are, indeed, two pains: but there is no co-ordinating self which can recognise that 'I have had two pains'.

I think our brain is our soul. I don't believe in after-life and much less in a sort of buildings-like heaven, where you meet friends, enemies, relatives.

We Love Water. We Thank Water. We Respect Water. We Are All Water. We Are All One.

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.

Part of my reason for being vegetarian was because it practices respect and love for life all through the day, so three times a day, you make a decision to eat things that have not been killed.

If each one of us starts thinking, learning, and understanding more about water and the fact that we are water-based ourselves, then we can start to love, thank, and respect water in our daily lives.

It was the time when they loved each other best, without hurry or excess, when both were most conscious of and grateful for their incredible victories over adversity.

It's sad. That's a living creature. We don't have the right to take their life away for fashion.