Quotes About Consciousness

The human mind isn't naturally programmed to comprehend spiritual experiences.

We have regarded as real what is unreal. We have to give up this attitude.

Find the Source of this false I: then it will disappear.

It is thoughts that make all the difference between the stillness of sleep and the turmoil upon waking.

The sage is not unconscious; he is fully aware of the Self.

You are the One seer of all: unattached, formless and witness of all you are. The Self is witness, all-pervading, One, actionless, desireless. Know the Self as the witness of all, and Consciousness itself—you are not the body, nor is the body yours, nor are you the doer. You are the eternal Witness, and free.

So, there is really no entity by the name of [my] "mind";

the experience of the undivided reality".

One suffers because of the idea that the body is "I". Misery

The world is your thought.

the "I" is first created, and then the world.

Only grief is possible when one thinks of oneself as a body.

So the body which did not exist in sleep, "exists" now in "waking.

If this tendency to identify itself with objects is destroyed, the ego merges into its Source.

There is mischief, or ignorance, as long as there is an object apart from a subject:

For those in the Self, there is no [separate] seeing—only being.

The Self is all-pervasive; all "else" is absent.

Once the I-thought has completely died, there is not even the thought of "I am Self." [There is only Be-ing.]

When there is no one to "experience," where is there a question of an I? Only that which Is remains.

The "mind" is nothing but "thoughts"; and behind every thought, there is the primary thought, which is the I-thought.

As a spark proceeds from fire, "individuality" emanates from the Absolute Self.

to whom does this free will matter?

he does not pursue activities with the notion that he is the doer;

There are no "others": the Self is the one and only reality.