Quotes About Consciousness

For a moment the visible world faded away, and memories and emotions alone seemed real.

Serious not in the sense of glum; but they must be convinced that our life is a state of some importance, and our earth not a place to beat time on.

For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.

The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.

You are now, and you do become, what you think about.

Every one of us is the sum total of his own thoughts

Everything you and I will ever have will come to us as the result of the way we use our minds, the one thing we possess that makes us different from all other creatures.

You are what you think about.

We become what we think!" (Philippians 4:8,9)

Marcus Aurelius, the great Roman Emperor, said: "A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.

There are nine different words in Maya for the color blue...but just three Spanish translations, leaving six butterflies that can be seen only by the Maya, proving beyond doubt that when a language dies, six butterflies disappear from the consciousness of the earth.

Now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.

It's always Now.

The past has no power over the present moment.

Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life. And don't be concerned with how others define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it's their problem. Whenever you interact with people, don't be there primarily as a function or a role, but as the field of conscious Presence. You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life.

Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that there is no death.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but thought about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking. Separate them from the situation, which is always neutral. It is as it is.

Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.

Everything you know is a story. That's how human consciousness works.

I got over my wave of giving a shit and then regained my senses.

If the trillions of cells in our bodies can run amazingly complex functions without our conscious effort, then we can only imagine the wisdom of Mother Earth that we have not yet learned.

It is up to white people to release themselves from their own captivity.