Quotes About Consciousness

What we're seeking to do is become transparent. A transparent window on reality. But that takes time to do. We're starting with a very solid, objectified view of ourselves and existence

The period of meditation is a time when we go back to the source. We go back to what we were before we were born.

If there were no world, no time, no space, no condition, if none of us existed, that would be meditation.

We live in a sensual world, and at the same time we live beyond it - billions of dimensions that are nonphysical, we experience them when we stop thought.

When you can successfully stop thought for longer periods of time, you do move into other worlds. This can also happen in the very beginning, if a person meditates with someone who is very advanced.

Beyond mind, beyond time, beyond space there is immortal awareness.

You're going to go to stillness. When that happens, the world collapses. There is no time, no space, no viewer, no viewing, no object in view.

The perceptual body that you are at the time of death ceases to be. It is not structured quite so tightly.

The essence of your awareness field definitely goes on after death. It goes through death, it goes into non-physical states for a time, and then eventually is pulled back and it reincarnates.

From the point of view of enlightenment, none of this has ever even been. All time and space, all the conditions that are apparent in the absence of enlightenment are unreal.

Samadhi is the absorption of God. There's no sense of time, place or condition.

Really, Sophronia, it makes me most uncomfortable how you manage to sort everything out every time I faint.

Have you noticed when you wear a hat for a long time it feels like it's not there anymore? And then when you take it off it feels like it's still there?

I don't really know where I got my artists idea. The scraps of what I remember do not explain to me where it came from. I only know that by this time it was definitely settled in my mind.

I wish, by the way, that I knew who separated Time from eternity; there seems only one thing to me, and I always feel that I am in eternity.

I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe.

Like, I'm hyper-conscious about going to bed on time, and doing my seven-step skin care routine at night.

Each time that you don't know you are choosing, then of those choices you are not the chooser.

I'm trying to be present, not thinking and worrying about the past or the future. That's such a waste of time, you know?

I was very much a tomboy for a long time, but as I start to get older, I realize I better actually try to preserve what I have and I better be a little conscientious about my regime.

You only communicate to pass the time, or to express the emotions. Your tongue has to develop [the capacity] to speak consciousness.

I'm me, and at the same time not me. That's what it felt like. A very still, quiet feeling.

Asked whether or not he believed in an afterlife, Thoreau quipped, "One world at a time."

When we awaken, we cannot account for the time spent. We simply don't remember. About the only evidence we have of experiences while we were asleep is when we happen to remember a dream.