Quotes About Consciousness

The scenery is time bound but the seer is timeless. You are the timeless seer in the midst of time bound scenery.

Most people have a time-bound awareness. And the reason is they have sacrificed their self for their self-image.

You cannot stand anywhere in the universe that is outside of yourself.

Time is an experience in consciousness. It is metabolized as our biological clock. Changing our experience of time can reverse aging.

We may experience a realization of our true Self the first time we meditate, but most often the process of awakening is gradual.

We can shift from time-bound awareness into timeless awareness . . . to the ecstasy that can only be found in the present moment.

I have all the time in the world. I am in touch with the timeless. I am surrounded by infinity.

If you want more time, spend more time in the Timeless.

There were moments when she wasn't talking so much as fading into time, dropping back into some funnelled stretch of recent past.

You remember with what you are at the time you are remembering.

all conscious thought is a process in time; so that to think consciously about Time is like trying to use a foot-rule to measure its own length.

Besides, animals don't even have time. Only humans have time. It's what makes us different.

So many people are passive participants in their very short time of having a consciousness, and those who aren't inspire me. Like Malala Yousafzai or a ninety-two-year-old yoga instructor.

Time is but a mode of thought

For the ego to survive, it must make time - past and future - more important than the present moment.

The outer purpose belongs to the horizontal dimension of space and time; the inner purpose concerns a deepening of your Being in the vertical dimension of the timeless Now.

Whereas the notion of purpose before was always associated with future, there is now a deeper purpose that can only be found in the present, through denial of time.

The power of now can only be realized now. It requires no time and effort. Effort means you're trying hard to get somewhere, and so you are not present, welcoming this moment as it is.

What fiction and art can do, particularly narrative art, is construct consciousness - in a sense, we have to do it for the first time, every time.

Every time feels like my first time. And I just find that the process of it feeds into one's own self-obsession.

The physical body is conceived and constructed in consciousness as are time and space. All happens within our self.

We don't have enough time to premeditate our actions.

The present moment, if you think about it, is the only time there is. No matter what time it is, it is always NOW!

The everyday, familiar sense of self who lives in time, and that dimension which we've called presence, that is always here, that is still and quiet.