Quotes About Consciousness

Handle even a single leaf of green in such a way that it manifests the body of the Buddha. This in turn allows the Buddha to manifest through the leaf.

We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.

I was in my yard and thought that the tree was a living being. We take trees for granted. We don't believe they are as much alive as we are.

I know I can walk through the world, along the shore or under the trees, with my mind filled with things of little importance, in full self-attendance. A condition I can't really call being alive.

Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

I see a green tree. And to me it is green. And you would call the tree green also. And we would agree on this. But is the colour you see as green the same colour I see as green?

I saw a tree fall in the woods, and I didn't hear it.

I want my writing to bring people not just to think of "trees" as they mostly do now, but of each individual tree, and each kind of tree.

The illuminated life can happen now, in the moments left. Die to your ego, and become a True Human Being.

Trust your hunches... Hunches are usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.

To be conscious of one's weakness and to trust in God's help is the way to authentic strength and victory.

When you know that something is dying inside you, you learn not to put much trust in the random vitalities of the fleeting moment.

We trust something in a grocery store and assume it's good. We don't learn about the most precious thing in life-the food we put in our body. Educate yourself!

Trust allows you to follow your feelings through your defenses to their sources, and to bring to the light of consciousness those aspects of yourself that resist wholeness, that live in fear.

A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself.

I don't think art is in danger of dissolution or disappearance, and we don't trust enough in its ability and power to create critical consciousness as much as we think we do.

In your present-moment awareness, awaken to your innocence, your trust, your love, your eternal being.

Anything you can say, think, feel, trust or feel is untrue - is an illusion. The fact that there are these things is an illusion.

Silence is truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self.

When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.

Life cannot be against you, for you are Life itself. Life can only seem to go against the ego's projections, which are rarely the truth.

Multiplicity is only apparent, in truth, there is only one mind.

In truth, ideology has very little to do with 'consciousness', even supposing this term to have an unambiguous meaning. It is profoundly unconscious, even when it presents itself in a reflected form.

When one realises one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake.