Quotes About Consciousness

Anything that arises in the mind will manifest itself as a sensation on the body; if you observe this sensation you are observing both the mind as well as matter.

One should never try to imagine or create sensations,

Göreceksiniz ya, ben dünyadan ziyade kafam?n içinde ya?ayan bir insan?m... Hakiki hayat?m benim için can s?k?c? bir rüyadan ba?ka bir ?ey de?ildir...

Bana hareket etmek, görmek, duymak, hissetmek, dü?ünmek, hülasa ya?amak kabiliyetlerini veren bir ?ey içimden çekilip al?nm?? gibi, posa haline geldi?imi fark ettim.

En korkunç yalan da budur: Kendimize kar?? bile kullanacak kadar pençesine dü?tü?ümüz bu derin ve gizli yalan...

I thought of neither the future or the past; I lived only in the present."- Madonna in A Fur Coat

And what makes humans so sure that thinking is the most important activity in the universe?...I on the contrary have never forgotten that first I existed and then, with a lot of difficulty, I learned to think." (p. 31)

Le envidio (a Karen Nieto, protagonista de La mujer que buceó dentro del corazón)que primero existe y luego, a veces, piensa. Yo fui amaestrada durante 19 años para siempre estar pensando en otra cosa, estar separada de la realidad. Soy un producto típico del humanismo

Como los humanos viven así, creyendo que primero piensan y luego existen, piensan que todo aquello que no piensa no existe del todo.

The greater impediment was the inadequate development of a consciousness of unity in a country which was divided by barriers between religious communities, castes, language communities, between people with different social norms and practices. Joint resistance to British rule might be for the time being a unifying factor, but 'the moment the British would leave India the bond of unity thus constructed would snap'.

People are so used to having their lives filmed, they're not even conscious of having cameras around. I still have that sort of suspicion when a camera comes out. I view it as a thing to fear.

Reactivity is enslavement. Responsibility is freedom.

The way you eat not only decides your physical health, but the very way you think, feel, and experience life. Trying to eat intelligently means understanding what kind of fuel this body is designed for and accordingly supplying it, so that it functions at its best. Let

Being responsible is taking ownership of your life. It means you have taken the first radical step to becoming a complete human being—fully conscious and fully human. In taking responsibility and beginning the journey toward conscious living, you are putting an end to the age-old patterns of assigning blame outward or heavenward. You have begun the greatest adventure life has to offer: the voyage inward.

The most incredible thing is that you can know everything you wish to know with your eyes closed.

What is happening within you and how you experience your life is entirely your making – your karma.

Enlightenment is not an attainment or an achievement. It is a homecoming. Your senses give you the impression that you are experiencing the outside, but you have never experienced the outside. When you realize that all that you experience is within, that absolute homecoming is enlightenment.

The identity around which the intellect functions is called ahankara.

Don't think of this as your first step or last step. Just be here as a piece of life. That is the best way to be. You are not a young man; you are not an old man. You are just a piece of life.

Today, if you have one depressing thought in you, you will sit depressed. Why? The whole cosmos is going on phenomenally well today, but that does not matter. In your mind there is one thought – not too many, just one – that is bothering you, that will depress you and put you in the dumps.

Many senseless people who don't even know how they should live are going on producing more children. They have not even learned how they should live. Forget about enlightenment; they don't even know how to keep their physical body! They don't know what the human form is. They don't know how to keep their emotions; they don't know how to keep their mind in balance. Why are these people going on producing children?

Right now, you don't have the necessary faculties to know anything which is beyond the physical. If you recognize this, if you understand this, if you accept this absolutely, only then the other dimension opens up.

If you consciously get your body into different postures, you can elevate your consciousness.

Fundamentally, the basis of yoga is just this: to initiate a process of self-creation where the nature of your body, your emotion, your mind, your energy is consciously created by you. This is what Adiyogi did. He crafted his life in its entirety.