Quotes About Consciousness

Thought is power -- real, objective power. Moreover, the thoughts we create have a life of their own. They have a kind of material reality that affects other people for good or ill -- hence our responsibility to chose.

What is important to you is simply this for the moment: that being surrounded by the astral and mental worlds, contacts from these are continually touching you, continually causing changes in your consciousness. If your astral body were thoroughly organised like your physical, the impressions made would be clear and sharp like the physical.

For all the practical purposes of Yoga, the man, the working, conscious man, is so much of him as he cannot separate from the matter enclosing him, or with which he is connected. Only that is body which the man is able to put aside and say: "This is not I, but mine."

There is no life without consciousness; there is no consciousness without life.

remember who you really are: a spiritual being having a deeply personal, human experience.

Never eat while doing something else, because you won't get the satisfaction from your food and you'll be more likely to overeat.

When I stopped to pay attention to where my breathing was deep and settled, the truth began to emerge from the mist.

He gazed at me, grave and straight. With a shock I realized he was perfectly sane. He had just fallen through, all at once, into a deeper layer of himself—as if he had crashed through rotten floorboards into the basement.

There is never 'a' lie but immediately a second lie – the one we tell ourselves that we've not told a lie.

A person's got to think, otherwise that person's no better than a trained seal balancing a ball on his nose. If only that seal could think, he'd know he was making a thousand children laugh.

As a number of scientists have noted, research on the human brain is complicated by the fact that the brain is struggling to understand itself. This three-pound organ is perhaps the only bit of matter in the universe—at least as far as we know—that is observing itself, wondering about itself, trying to analyze itself, and attempting to gain better control of its own capabilities.

Only medical hypnosis is capable of opening up amnesia.

Learning to spot "that stuff "—whether it is racist, or sexist, or classist—is an important skill for children to develop.

Not noticing requires energy.

As you recover, you will feel more conscious of your surroundings. Freed from the 'fog' of your pain, fear, and confusion, you will awaken and see the world revealed as never before. You will begin to observe things, especially yourself. You will be aware of what you do and why you do it. You will begin to observe your own behavior and attitudes.

The West has made people too time-conscious, not knowing where they are going but speeding to get there because time is short.

To be present is to be prayerful.

Enjoy simple things with total intensity. Just a cup of tea can be a deep meditation.

Mind is blocking the fountain of intelligence like a rock.

The mind is constantly talking. If the inner talk can drop even for a single moment you will be able to have a glimpse of no-mind. That's what meditation is all about. The state of no-mind is the right state. It is your state.

That's what I call meditation. You simply stand aloof and just see the mind disappearing, like a cloud on a faraway horizon, leaving the sky clean and pure. And in that state arises your consciousness in its full glory, in its full celebration.

Meditation is to get out of your psychosis and to get out of your neurosis; it is simply to slip out of them.

Meditation is just a strategy to take away your personality, your thoughts, your mind, your identity with the body, and leave you absolutely alone inside, just a living fire. And once you have found your living fire, you will know all the joys and all the ecstasies that human consciousness is capable of.

Meditation is the breath of your soul. Just as breathing is the life of the body, meditation is the life of the soul.