Quotes About Consciousness

The dance goes from realizing that you're separate (which is the awakening) to then trying to find your way back into the totality of which you are not only a part, but which you are.

It seems to me that the real problem is the mind itself and not the problem which the mind has created and tries to solve.

Spiritual energy-the energy that comes from pure consciousness-is the creative energy of the universe.

The highest knowledge is to know that we are surrounded by mystery.

If you can break the illusion that you are separate and begin to experience the oneness of the existence, that is yoga.

the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners

True understanding is possible only when we are fully conscious of our thought, not as an operative observer on this thought, but completely and without the intervention of a choice.

Consciousness is not a bunch of thoughts or a certain level of understanding. Consciousness is a dimension that is beyond our physicality.

One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine.

To understand what is right meditation there must be an awareness of the operation of one's own consciousness, and then there is complete attention.

It's a paradox of the true spiritual path, but the more conscious we become of what limits us, the more limitless becomes our life.

Behead yourself!... Dissolve your whole body into Vision: become seeing, seeing, seeing!

When every moment, you experience yourself as the source of creation, not as a piece of creation, then you are realized.

Intuition is the conscious experience - in pure spirit - of a purely spiritual content.

Ethical existence [is] the highest manifestation of spirituality.

Meditation is the process of understanding your own mind.

All our problems are spiritual, and our only spiritual problem is not realizing we are spiritual.

Without transcendence, life has no beauty.

When you live in surrender, something comes through you into the world of duality that is not of this world.

Meditation means ultimate freedom within you.

I am not a spiritual guy, but all of a sudden I felt the need to really feel things.

In spiritual matters, knowledge is dependent upon being; as we are, so we know.

Your body and your mind can be receptacles to perceive the whole cosmos - if only you do not identify yourself with them.

We both exist and know that we exist, and rejoice in this knowledge.