Quotes About Consciousness

Some things transcend even lunacy.

It encourages us to develop evolution's greatest gift to us: our intellects. It instructs us to appreciate this life as fully as possible, because we will never have another. This, then, is my religion.

Of course, like the consciousness behind it, behind any art, a poem can be deep or shallow, visionary or glib, prescient or stuck in an already lagging trendiness. What's pushing the grammar and syntax, the sounds, the images—is it the constriction of literalism, fundamentalism, professionalism—a stunted language? Or is it the great muscle of metaphor, drawing strength from resemblance in difference? The great muscle of the unconstricted throat?

Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.

I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from "Splittings

My speaking is meant to shake you awake, not to tell you how to dream better.

We realize--often quite suddenly--that our sense of self, which has been formed and constructed out of our ideas, beliefs and images, is not really who we are. It doesn't define us, it has no center.

Let go of all ideas and images in your mind, they come and go and aren't even generated by you. So why pay so much attention to your imagination when reality is for the realizing right now?

When we see the world through our thoughts, we stop experiencing life as it really is and others as they really are. When I have a thought about you, that's something I've created. I've turned you into an idea. In a certain sense, if I have an idea about you that I believe, I've degraded you. I've made you into something very small. This is the way of human beings, this is what we do to each other.

Awareness isn't something we own; awareness isn't something we possess. Awareness is actually what we are.

All delusions begin in the mind. All delusions are based on various ways we're talking to ourselves and then believing what we are saying.

The way they perceive the world suddenly changes, and they find themselves without any sense of separation between themselves and the rest of the world.

The greatest dream that we can have is to forget that we are dreaming.

Whatever you think you are, that's not it.

You are an incredible mystery that you will never figure out. To be this mystery consciously is the greatest joy.

By identifying with a particular name that belongs to a particular body and mind, the self begins the process of creating a separate identity. Add in a complex jumble of ideas, beliefs, and opinions, along with some selective and often painful memories with which to create a past to identify with, as well as the raw emotional energy to hold it all together, and before you know it, you've got a very convincing - though divided - self.

If we do not live and manifest in our lives what we realize in our deepest moments of revelation, then we are living a split life.

Enlightenment is the natural state of consciousness, the innocent state of consciousness, that state which is uncontaminated by the movement of thought, uncontaminated by control or manipulation of mind.

The aim of my teaching is enlightenment, awakening from the dream state of separateness into the reality of the One. In short, my teaching is focused on realizing what you are.

We can only start to allow consciousness to wake up from its identification with thought and feeling, with body and mind and personality, by allowing ourselves to rest in the natural state from the very beginning.

Ego is nothing more than the beliefs, ideas, and images we have about ourselves—and so it is actually

To be intimate is to feel the silence, the space that everything is happening in.

In truth, we are life itself. When we see and perceive that we are the totality of life, we are no longer afraid of it; we no longer feel afraid of birth, life, and death. But until we see that, we will see life as intimidating, as a barrier we somehow have to get through.

Now is just what's happening – minus everything you think.