Quotes About Consciousness

Through millions of years of evolution, nature has caged you within certain boundaries—this is the human predicament. But this imprisonment is only on the level of biology. On the level of human consciousness, you are like a bird in a cage without a door. What a tragic irony! It is only out of long aeons of habit that you are refusing to fly free. Life

And so these are the only two things that you are suffering right now: your memory and your imagination.

This is the fundamental question about life. How do you want to spend this moment? People

If you do not encumber your intellect with any identifications—body, gender, family, qualifications, society, race, caste, creed, community, nation, even species—you travel naturally toward your ultimate nature.

The choice is always before you: to respond consciously to the present; or to react compulsively to it.

What you call fate is just a life situation you have created for yourself unconsciously. Your destiny is what you have crafted in unawareness. If you become a hundred percent conscious, your destiny becomes a conscious creation.

The violence of the death is not determined by what happened to the body; it depends on what happened within that person.

An idiot can sit here quietly. A mystic can sit here quietly.

If one has mastery over one's vyana, one can leave one's body at will.

If you want to know the experiential dimensions of life, you will never know them with the petty process of thought. Even if you have the brain of an Einstein, your thought process is still outclassed because thought cannot be bigger than life. Thought can only be logical, functioning between two polarities. If you want to know life in its immensity, you need something more than the intellect.

It is important to see that whatever seems determined in your life has been determined by you unconsciously.

Whether you fly or choose to remain in the limitations of the cage—let that be a conscious choice.

that people understand this: you did not create life, so you have no business to take it either—whether it is yours or someone else's.

becomes experiential for you, you explode into the oneness of existence. This is yoga, the ultimate union.

Your aliveness is going down because you are committing suicide in installments.

There is only one crime against life: to make believe that you are something other than life.

I have never touched any substance, but if you look into my eyes you will see that I am always stoned. I am totally drunk and fully aware. This is one of the pleasures that the science of yoga offers.

If your thought and your emotion are of your making, you can mold them any way you like. There is scientific proof today that without ingesting a drop of alcohol or any other substance, you can get fully intoxicated by yourself. An Israeli organic chemist, Raphael

Have you come into this world to experience life or to think about it? Your mental process is a very small happening compared to the life process, but right now it has become far more important.

the more profound your understanding of the human mechanism is, the more magical your life will be.

If you consciously accept this moment just the way it is, you arrive at a certain ease within yourself. Ease is a consequence of the relaxation of all you have created. You can, in turn, experience the whole of existence as yourself. Everything becomes a part of you, as creation in its very nature exists as one whole. Knowing this experience is yoga, or the ultimate union.

The way out is a very simple change in direction. You just need to see that the source and basis of your experience is within you. Human experience may be stimulated or catalyzed by external situations, but the source is within. Pain or pleasure, joy or misery, agony or ecstasy, happens only inside you. Human folly is that people are always trying to extract joy from the outside. You may use the outside as a stimulus or trigger, but the real thing always comes from within. Right

A day is but a piece of time That lets us live and die. …This day let us live and Live totally. —SADHGURU

I also saw that language was no more than a conspiracy devised by human beings. If someone spoke, I realized they were only making sounds, and I was making up the meanings. So, I stopped making up meanings and the sounds became very amusing. I could see patterns spewing out of their mouths. If I kept staring, the person would just disintegrate and turn into a blob of energy. Then all that was left was patterns!