Quotes About Consciousness

of a thousand miles begins with a single step. In the case of meditation, this simple but essential step involves turning your mind away from its usual preoccupation with external events — or, just as often, with the story it tells you about external events — and toward your inner sensate experience. If you're like most people, you're so caught up with what's happening around you

Thoughts are the images, memories, beliefs, judgments, and reflections that float through your mind and often give rise to your feelings.

Your spirit already thinks 'outside of the box'. It's called intuition. Your body just needs to catch up and open its eye(lid).

Just because your intuition can't fit it into one of the five senses, hardly means it doesn't exist.

I'm not trying to steal your thunder, but I feel like I'm the one who just woke up."

Clearly the crucial issue in the success of an intimate sexual relationship or very close friendship is not one of sexuality or of gender. More important than either is the conscious willingness of two people or a whole family or community to think about each other with generosity, openness, tolerance and respect, conscious that this counts for something only when it is also translated into behaviours that are routinely respectful, thoughtful and kind.

Every living thing is a spirit.

Integrity is unity of the personality; it implies being brutally honest with ourselves about our intentionality. Since intentionality is inextricably bound up with the daimonic, this is never an easy, nor always pleasant pursuit. But being willing to admit our daimonic tendencies - to know them consciously and to wisely oversee them - brings with it the invaluable blessing of freedom, vigor, inner strength, and self-acceptance.

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him.

In truth it matters less what we do... than how we do it and why.

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.

When we start to suffer, it tells us something very valuable. It means that we are not seeing the truth, and we are not relating from the truth. It's a beautiful pointer. It never fails.

Any given man sees only a tiny portion of the total truth, and very often, in fact almost ... perpetually, he deliberately deceives himself about that little precious fragment as well.

We are human beings, beings whose fundamental food is the experience of truth.

If you observe awareness steadily, this awareness itself becomes the Guru that will reveal the Truth.

Nothing that lived and breathed was truly objective—even in a vacuum, even if all that possessed the brain was a self-immolating desire for the truth.

The truth is dark under your eyelids.

There is no Truth. There is only the truth within each moment.

The unconditioned mind intuits truth.

Yet, analytical truth is not as mysterious, or as secret, so as to not allow us to see that people with a talent for directing consciences see truth rise spontaneously.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience and Infinite love is the only truth; everything else is an illusion.

Divine symbols which have been given to mankind from time to time speak to that forum of truth which is within our hearts, and waken our consciousness to divine ideas entirely beyond words.

Your personality is something that you created. Once you are aware of that, you could create it whichever way you want.