Quotes About Consciousness

True meditation can never be done with the mind. Very often we make a mistake when we say that we are meditating in the mind and utilizing the mind. Real meditation is done in the psychic being and in the soul. It goes hand in hand with flaming aspiration, the burning flame that wants to climb up to the Highest.

Into this blind clay, You have infused awareness. Everything, everywhere which You have given is good

As is their awareness, so is their way. According to the account of our actions, we come and go in reincarnation.

There is one awareness among all created beings. None have been created without this awareness.

Surrounded by nothingness you have to do nothing. You have to do nothing to be who you are. Nothing at all.

Love says 'I am everything.' Wisdom says 'I am nothing.' Between the two, my life flows.

The consciousness in you and the consciousness in me, apparently two, really one, seek unity and that is love.

Whatever happens, happens to you by you, through you; you are the creator, enjoyer and destroyer of all you perceive.

To deal with things knowledge of things is needed. To deal with people, you need insight, sympathy. To deal with yourself, you need nothing. Be what you are--conscious being--and don't stray away from yourself.

It has nothing to do with effort. Just turn away, look between the thoughts, rather than at the thoughts. When you happen to walk in a crowd, you do not fight every man you meet, you just find your way between. When you fight, you invite a fight. But when you do not resist, you meet no resistance. When you refuse to play the game, you are out of it.

Truth is not a reward for good behaviour, nor a prize for passing some tests. It cannot be brought about. It is the primary, the unborn, the ancient source of all that is. You are eligible because you are. You need not merit truth. It is your own....Stand still, be quiet.

If you have contact with pure consciousness even for a moment, you are liberated.

All happiness comes from awareness. The more we are conscious, the deeper the joy. Acceptance of pain, non-resistance, courage and endurance -- these open deep and perennial sources of real happiness, true bliss.

The mind creates the abyss. The heart crosses over it.

I leave my human nature to unfold according to its destiny. I remain as I AM

All worldly activities are being done for the sake of entertainment of the consciousness of every living being.

As long as you imagine yourself to be something tangible and solid, a thing among things, you seem short-lived and vulnerable, and of course you will feel anxious to survive. But when you know yourself to be beyond space and time you will be afraid no longer.

The sensation of beingness is a matter of experience, but I am beyond that. Some people claim that they have memories of past lives. I do not have even the experience of myself at anytime.

Consciousness is spotless, formless and prior to intellect.

The light which you see outside arises from your own light. The light of the sun and the moon cannot be compared to the light of your Self.

I am Atma, the Self, formless, without modifications and pure,

The problem is not yours—it is your mind's only. Begin by disassociating yourself from your mind. Resolutely remind yourself that you are not the mind and that its problems are not yours.

Dio illumina la mente e splende in essa. Non si può conoscere Dio per mezzo della mente, si può solo rivolgere la mente all'interno e fondersi con Dio.

There can indeed be nothing but consciousness. Tell me of any place where there is no consciousness; there is no place beyond consciousness. Or can any one prove in any manner anything outside consciousness? Conciousness is inescapable.