Quotes About Consciousness

If you shift from compulsiveness to consciousness, being joyful will not be an effort.

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

You keep insisting, I feel good because the world is right! Wrong! The world is right because I feel good. That's what all the mystics are saying.

When one has truly imbibed spiritual qualities, they will spontaneously be reflected in one's thoughts and actions.

Each person's life – each lifeform, in fact – represents a world, a unique way in which the universe experiences itself.

Life happens from within. How aware you are of it, decides the quality of your body, your mind, and your experience of life.

Eternity is not the hereafter...this is it. If you don't get it here you won't get it anywhere.

When this delusion of utter separateness underlies and governs whatever I think, say, and do, what kind of world do I create?

Mindfulness is both a state of being and a daily spiritual practice, a form of meditation.

We don't sit in meditation to become good meditators. We sit in meditation so that we'll be more awake in our lives.

If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me

Wherever we may come alive, that is the area in which we are spiritual.

The source of your mind is love and whatever you do to go to that source, is spiritual practice.

When we learn new behaviors and break through to higher levels of consciousness and love, we can fulfill the deeper spiritual hunger within.

Every experience that we have is unique to us because at some deep level we make an interpretation of it.

The Self itself is the world; the Self itself is 'I'; the Self itself is God; all is Siva, the Self.

After many years of training myself, strong emotions are now a trigger for me to look at something. I think that all emotions are triggers for us to grow in our level of consciousness.

At the most subtle level, your inner intelligence is steadily progressing along the corridors of eternity.

I think and that is all that I am.

There is nothing but God, nothing but the Goddess, nothing but Spirit in all directions, and not a grain of sand, not a speck of dust, is more or less Spirit than any other.

No more materialism, no more this egoism, I must become spiritual.

Nothing has happened in the past; it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in the Now.

The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.

Once you have had a glimpse of awareness or Presence, you know it firsthand. It is no longer just a concept in your mind.