Quotes About Consciousness

We have gone from holding the door out of courtesy to standing before it out of obliviousness.

Alan Campbell opened one eye. From somewhere in remote distances, muffled beyond sight or sound, his soul crawled back painfully, through subterranean corridors, up into his body again. Toward the last it moved to a cacophony of hammers and lights. Then he was awake. The first eye was bad enough. But, when he opened his second eye, such as rush of anguish flowed through his brain that he hastily closed them again.

That soul that can reflect upon itself, consider itself, is more than so.

I felt a tightness on the skin. A visceral type of cognition that I had experienced before. But this was stronger, more immediate: the certainty of something out there, just beyond the threshold of consciousness. It was the experience of haragei.

Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course.

Who think too little, and who talk too much.

Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves: who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.

There is only one true purpose in life: to wake up from the delusion that you are separate from everything else.

When I say that Zen is life, I mean that Zen is not to be confined within conceptualization, that Zen is what makes conceptualization possible.

you can live a whole life time never being awake.

With each experience of the unbounded ocean of consciousness, you infuse it into your life and therefore expand whatever consciousness you had to begin with.

All your life you've paid attention to your experiences, but never to yourself.

Life is like an eternal dance. The movements of the dance are choreographed through your awareness.

This is real freedom-the ability to enjoy the choices we make in every successive moment of the present.

If you only had a limited time to life (which is of course the case), how would you spend your time?

Life after death is the elephant in the living room, the one that we are not supposed to notice.

I've always thought that we have to bring our spirituality into our everyday life such as even brushing our teeth with God.

To have your attention in the Now is not a denial of what is needed in your life. It is recognition of what is primary.

But do we really live? To live without knowing what life is - is that living?

Even before I knew Yoga in this life, I was into that kind of thing.

Wakefulness is the way to life. The fool sleeps As if he were already dead, But the master is awake And he lives forever.

What does remembering ourselves mean? It essentially means coming back to life- re-membering.

It's not that "today is the first day of the rest of my life," but that now is all there is of my life.

Life was a pre-death experience.