Quotes About Consciousness

The whole point of yoga is to bring you to an experience wherein, if you sit here, there is no such thing as "you" and "me." It is all me—or all you! Any process that helps you to reach this union is yoga.

Shiva is a bit like a packed lunch! You don't have to go to a restaurant to be served. You don't have to go to a temple or to heaven to find him. The ultimate nature of your existence always goes with you. There is only one place to go and it goes with you. How's that for simplicity? You really cannot get a better deal!

Dhyana or meditation, means to be beyond the limitations of your body and mind.

The fear is simply because you are not living with life, You are living in your mind.

Everything that ever happened to you, you experienced right within you. Light and darkness, pain and pleasure, agony and ecstasy—all of it happened within you. If someone touches your hand right now, you may think you are experiencing their hand, but the fact of the matter is you are only experiencing the sensations in your own hand. The whole experience is contained within. All human experience is one hundred percent self-created.

If you want to become life sensitive, a simple process that you do is this: make whatever you think and whatever you feel less important. Try and see for one day. Suddenly you will feel the breeze, the rain, the flowers and the people, everything in a completely different way. Suddenly the life in you becomes much more active and alive for your experience.

There is no such thing as ego; it is empty talk. The nasty part of you, you call it ego. Whenever you get nasty, you don't want to see, "It is me who is nasty." You want to say, "Oh, it is my ego." This is another way of passing the buck. There is no ego. There is just you, and you, loid and you alone.

What we need is not good human beings; we need sensible human beings.

Poor villager comes and throws a plastic bag; that's not the main issue now. The issue is with the affluent, isn't it?

How shall we go to sleep and wake up when we have no intention of sleeping or waking?

All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.

Do what you do only for God's sake, start for God's sake, work for God's sake, and act within the sphere of God's good approval.

Tiedän varmasti todellisuuden epä- todelliseksi - Miten siis millään voisin myöntää unet uniksi?

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

It is not our body which feels, not our mind which thinks, but we, as single human beings, who both feel and think.

Whatever we do lays a seed in our deepest consciousness, and one day that seed will grow.

When the mind is totally present, it is relaxed, nimble, and sensitive. It feels lighter and clearer. It notices everything, but it is not distracted by anything. It is the feeling of knowing exactly where you are and what you are doing.

Heaven is the natural spaciousness of our mind before we make it small with self-protection.

Obviously it is not good to keep checking your watch, as you might discover that you have supernatural powers that can slow down the time.

Taking your attention away from thoughts and placing it on the breath is the focus of meditation, which in this simple form is simply the process of being mindful of the breathing, being aware that you are thinking, and returning your attention to the breath.

The bones and tendons of the mind are mindfulness and awareness. Mindfulness is the mind's strength, and awareness is its flexibility.

Our true nature expresses itself as intelligence, clean energy, mindfulness, presence, and intuition. It also has an element of knowledge.

We already have what we need—the opportunity to weave the tapestry of happiness every day with the needle and thread of our own mind.

Meditation stabilizes us in our inherent power as humans. It introduces the possibility of living our lives in a continually conscious, confident, and balanced state of mind.