Quotes About Consciousness

Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time.

It is so fatally easy to confuse an aesthetic appreciation of the spiritual life with the life itself-to dream that you have waked, washed, and dressed and then to find yourself still in bed.

Life goes on within you and without you

Life is simple. Life is not complicated. Life is only one thing: Identify yourself.

The purpose of life is to remember.

You notice. And noticing, you live.

Meditate on your own and refine your consciousness. Tighten up your life. Constantly examine your life and look for weak points. You know what's going on in your life.

Reincarnation is not what a lot of people think. Yes, we are eternal. No, everyone does not attain enlightenment; it's not necessary; life is smarter than we are.

The essence of Buddhism is simply that the mind is forever. We are always experiencing different states of mind in one form or another, in one body or another, in one life or another, forever.

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?

See to it that each hour's feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.

Life is the faculty of spontaneous activity, the awareness that we have powers.

I must not fall asleep in the middle of my life. Out of the blankness that surrounds me I must pluck the incident after incident after incident whose little explosions keep me going.

Aw, where we come from the Anti-Life Equation is one of many others--almost as awesome!! But they merely exist!!

Intelligence essentially means that your intellect is sharp enough to see life the way it is.

On the spiritual path, the first thing is to experientially ascertain where your are right now. You can only start the journey from where you are.

The world's most sensible person and the biggest idiot both stay within us. The worst part is, you can't even tell who is who.

The training of the mind is an art. If this can be considered art, one's life is art.

Life is like a tree and its root is consciousness. Therefore, once we tend the root, the tree as a whole will be healthy.

Living in the present moment creates the experience of eternity.

The quality of one's life depends on the quality of attention.

Become aware of the silent witness that is observing the unfolding of all the external events of your life. This eternal presence is your true Self.

When I see and feel the life beat of Spirit in every object, I evolve to a higher level of transformation called consciousness

Mastery of life is not a question of control, but of finding a balance between human and being...Human is form. Being is formless. Human and Being are not separate but interwoven.