Quotes About Consciousness

Spend time pondering not what you see," Merlin advised Arthur, "but why you see it.

There are only two kinds of thoughts you can have, memories and imaginings.

Perception appears to be automatic, but in fact it is a learned phenomenon. The world you live in, including the experience of your body, is completely dictated by how you learned to perceive it. If you change your perception, you change the experience of your body and your world.

Higher purpose: Every cell in your body agrees to work for the welfare of the whole; its individual welfare comes second.

Every action is a karmic episode because action generates memory, memory generates desire, and desire generates action again. As you become conscious of these seeds of manifestation, you become a conscious choice maker, and the actions you generate will be evolutionary.

Practice silence and you will acquire silent knowledge. In this silent knowledge is a computing system that is far more precise and far more accurate and far more powerful than anything that is contained in the boundaries of rational thought.

Use memories. Do not let memories use you.

Awareness is all about restoring your freedom to choose what you want instead of what your past imposes on you.

the silent witness is that level where you know yourself, without regard for what others think they know.

Having placed its trust in "reality as given," science overlooks the self- evident fact that nothing can be experienced without consciousness. It is a more viable candidate for "reality as given" than the physical universe.

In the vastness of the ocean there is no individual "I" clamoring for attention. There are waves and eddies and tides, but it is all, in the end, ocean. We are all patterns of nonlocality pretending to be people. In the end, it is all spirit.

You can also transcend the seeds of your karma by becoming independent of it. The way to do this is to keep experiencing the Self, your spirit, by going into silent meditation and coming out again. This is like washing a dirty piece of cloth in a stream of water. Each time you wash it, you take away a few stains, and it gets a little cleaner.

Everyone was asleep, totally unconscious about their true nature.

What you seek, you already are. Your awareness has its source in unity. Instead of seeking outside yourself, go to the source and realize who you are. Seeking

You will know your own innocence again when you can see the love that breathes within every iota of creation.

Your entire universe is in your mind and nowhere else. To expand the universe, expand your mind.

Meditation allows us to reach the level of the soul by easing past the tangle of thoughts and emotions that usually keep our attention bound to the physical world. When we close our eyes to meditate, thoughts spring up spontaneously.

Every cell in your body is eavesdropping on your thoughts.

The more conscious you become, the more you come into balance. Once balanced, you can choose to reject destruction; your awareness expands beyond the immediate hurt to see that evolution is eternal and therefore eternally possible.

The best way to prepare for any moment in the future is to be fully conscious in the present.

Mature spirituality requires sobriety of awareness.

When someone asks, "How do I find the right one?" my answer is "Don't look for the right one. Be the right one.

it may well be that the subject-object dichotomy is false to begin with and that consciousness is primary in the cosmos, not just an epiphenomenon of physical processes in a nervous system.

True wizards are not bound by (time); we live in the past, present and future all at once.