Quotes About Consciousness

The Supreme God is thus the embodiment of pure Consciousness

As long as you have attachment to the body and attachment to objects, fear and suffering will be with you. Therefore, Krishna told Arjuna to develop his discrimination and rid himself of body consciousness. He told him that once he was free of body consciousness he would be able to develop integral vision.

Even when no one is seeing, God is watching your actions always. Do everything with this awareness.

The universe is one organism. The world is one organism, one living Being and each mind is just a part of that. This is the highest knowledge and all knowledge has to lead to this universal truth.

Nothing in the world can bother you as much as your own mind, I tell you. In fact, others seem to be bothering you, but it is not other, it is your own mind.

Sadhyojata means "creating every moment anew, knowing every moment new.' We are used to a certain dimension, so this may go beyond you.

Dissolving the name is awareness. Dissolving the form is meditation. The world is name and form. Bliss transcends name and form. Bangalore Ashram, India September 24, 1997

This Truth has to be realized here and now, in this lifetime. Do not postpone it until the next lifetime. If you do not know it this lifetime, it is the greatest loss. There cannot be any greater loss than this. This is the greatest loss imaginable.

Your head will be in the mud in a few years. Don't put mud in your head while you are still alive.

What is honour? Have you ever thought about it? What is honouring? Honour is total attentiveness to the present moment with a tinge of greatfulness. Honour every moment in your life, that is practice. You respect your own body, that is practice, that is asana. Asana is what? Respecting your own body at every moment consciously. Honouring your breath and keeping it up for a period of time - that is pranayam.

Calm, quiet and uniting all the loose ends of your existence. You become the object of your perception.

Dvityadvai bhayam bhavati which means, Fear is the result of duality.

Thoughts are like the clouds in the sky – clouds are not the sky. Like that thoughts come and go from you. Good thoughts, bad thoughts, so what? You say, "I am not this," let them come and go. By doing a little meditation, this becomes very clear to you. It is an experience.

Free from feverishness or desires in the mind, united with your Being, centered, when you act without expecting something from it, without wanting to grab or take anything, your action becomes perfect and free from blemishes.

When you consciously acknowledge dispassion as a prime factor to move life, then you are able to control the mind.

Love is not an Emotion, It is your very Existence.

Food in sleep shows very like our food awake; yet are not those asleep nourished by it, for they are asleep.

For, as I know that I am, so I know this also, that I know.

Not with doubting, but with assured consciousness, do I love Thee, Lord. Thou hast stricken my heart with Thy word, and I loved Thee. Yea also heaven, and earth, and all that therein is, behold, on every side they bid me love Thee.

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep [spirit] so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.

What we are looking for is what is looking.

If memory survived eternally, then indeed there might be justification for a belief in hell.

Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret chambers, and without finding what lies behind doorways that he himself has sealed.