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Quotes About Consciousness

It is only by grounding our awareness in the living sensation of our bodies that the 'I Am,' our real presence, can awaken.
~ G. I. Gurdjieff
Just as the Atman (Soul) is the reality underlying the conscious powers of an individual, so the Supreme Soul (God) is the eternal quiet underneath the drive and activity of the universe.
~ Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Matter is spirit at its lowest level. Spirit is matter at its highest level.
~ H. P. Blavatsky
You cannot transcend what you do not know. To go beyond yourself, you must know yourself.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
~ Joseph Campbell
Mind is madness. Only when you go beyond the mind, there will be meditation.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
All breathing beings are spiritual; this includes everyone who breathes, whether they are animals or humans, carnivores or vegetarians.
~ Sharon Gannon
Spiritual Awakening is awakening from the dream of thought.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Contrary to what they tell you... You are not a limited material being.
~ Amit Goswami
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.
~ Eckhart Tolle
As long as you are unable to access the power of the Now, every emotional pain that you experience leaves behind a residue of pain that lives on in you.
~ Eckhart Tolle
As you awaken to your divine nature, you'll begin to appreciate beauty in everything you see, touch and experience.
~ Wayne Dyer
The moment you become aware of the ego in you, it is strictly speaking no longer the ego, but just an old, conditioned mind-pattern. Ego implies unawareness. Awareness and ego cannot coexist.
~ Eckhart Tolle
To me, growing into spiritual maturity is becoming less self-conscious and more God-conscious.
~ Mark Batterson
Put your thoughts to sleep, do not let them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart. Let go of thinking.
~ Rumi
I am perceiving everyone, including myself, as an awakening being who is here to claim his or her birthright to the higher consciousness planes of unconditional love and oneness.
~ Ken Keyes Jr.
If you knew the immensity of what it means to be human, you would not talk about God or Heaven.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
The less the head, the more the wound will heal. No head there is no wound. Live a headless life. Move as a total being, and accept things.
~ Rajneesh
Creativity comes from the spiritual realm, the collective consciousness. And the mind is in a different realm than the molecules of the brain. The brain is a receiver, not a source.
~ Candace Pert
Here is a new spiritual practice for you: don't take your thoughts too seriously.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Knowing is passing from the false to the true and seeing the Absolute Whole in the part.
~ Mahmud Shabistari
In our imaginations we believe that love is apart from us. Actually there is nothing but love, once we are ready to accept it. When you truly find love, you find yourself
~ Deepak Chopra
Everything is just electricity and magnetism; everything is only an illusion. The reality is in the spiritual plane.
~ Lobsang Rampa
Awareness is the greatest agent for change.
~ Eckhart Tolle