Quotes About Consciousness

Death is the creation of the unaware, because

The present is the only place that you can be. If you live, you live in this moment. If you die, you die in this moment. This moment is eternity.

The crux of the matter is that you don't yet know who you are. Who you are is not the sum total of accumulations you have made. Everything that you currently know as "myself" is just an accumulation.

If you go outward, it is an endless journey. If you turn inward, it is just one moment.

Meditation is not about going somewhere – it is falling back into yourself.

With a little awareness, every human being can begin to transform habit into choice, compulsion into consciousness.

Once your intellect—or buddhi, as it is termed in the yogic taxonomy—gets identified with something, you function within the realm of this identity. Whatever you are identified with, all your thoughts and emotions spring from that identity.

It is time to stop the charade. There is only one way out of the spider's web. And it is the age-old journey from unawareness to awareness, from compulsion to consciousness.

You have a sense of time and space only because you are looking at everything through the prism of your Accumulated Karma. But if you go beyond your thought, your emotion, and your body and experience this moment just once, you will never be able to fall out of it.

If you keep the false conclusions at bay, truth will dawn.

you don't meditate, nothing will happen, but if you sit for meditation, so many things will start happening everywhere.

It means beginning the journey from the psychological – maya – to the existential – Shi-va. And

Bütün uyuyanlar? uyand?rmaya bir tek uyan?k yeter.

Many whites are even actually unaware of their own racism, until they face some test, and then their racism emerges in one form or other.

I knew that Malcolm X had an almost fanatical obsession about time. I have less patience with someone who doesn't wear a watch than with anyone else , for this type is not time-conscious, he had once told me.

Today, in many ways the black man sees the collective white man in America better than that white man can see himself.

I have less patience with someone who doesn't wear a watch than with anyone else, for this type is not time-conscious. [...] In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines succes or failure.

That morning was the start of a radical alteration in my whole outlook about "white" men.

The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive." ? Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

We both agreed that American society makes it next to impossible for humans to meet in America and not be conscious of their color differences. And we both agreed that if racism could be removed, America could offer a society where rich and poor could truly live like human beings.

So many people say they want a new life, but then they take the new one they get every morning for granted. Don't do this.

Stop swimming around in your own mind. That is a dangerous neighborhood that you should not go into alone.

Between stimulus and response there is a gap. It's a moment of choice about our actions and reactions. Most people blow past this, react out of habit and then claim they were helpless against themselves. Mind the gap.

What truly differentiates the heavies from the lightweights is not how tough they are, but how aware they are.