Quotes About Consciousness

No words—Buddha's, mine, or anyone else's—can see for you.

Be considerate with the Earth. More people have to use it when you're gone."

Do not let your TODAY be stolen by the ghost of yesterday or the "To-Do" list of tomorrow!"

We only have now! Everything else is either imagination or memory."

You're life is a print-out of your thoughts."

Your agreement with reality defines your life."

Your perceptions create your reality."

There is no love apart from God's love—and as His love fills your consciousness you won't be able to contain it!

I believe we can proactively choose to believe whatever we want instead of merely letting our beliefs coalesce as reactions to events.

Thought and action can be perceived as two different dimensions of who you are: the mental you and the physical you

You perform every action for a specific reason, but rarely do you take the time to fully understand your behavior.

To use a medical analogy, while mystics try to heal themselves (that is, to transcend sleep), conventionally religious people simply try to manage the symptoms. Near-death

Consciousness doesn't emerge from matter because it has always been in matter. Consciousness is a fundamental quality that exists everywhere and in everything.

The goal of human life is to realize this oneness, and so to transcend separation, fear and even death.

So as evolution progresses, consciousness becomes more involved in matter: living beings become a fuller expression of spirit and move closer to the source from which they, and all things, came.

He was neither asleep nor awake, neither this nor that. It was some new state that he was in, some new kind of nonexistence.

It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality.

Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time.

What we need to learn to do is to look at thought, rather than from thought.

Thoughts are like lenses through which we look at our world.

Consciousness—not the personal you—created your body and your surroundings that provide support for that body to exist.

Ceremony is the intentful construction of the bridge which spans the barriers that we've created between our soul and our mundane life. Through the creation of ceremony, we allow the free movement of our soul into the mundane and of our consciousness in the realm of soul. It's a two-way bridge.

One's own thought is one's world. What a person thinks is what he becomes. —Maitri Upanishads

A civilization can easily drown in what it knows as in what doesn't know. Consider,' he continued, Gotho's Folly. Gotho's curse was in being too aware - of everything. Every permutation, every potential. Enough to poison every scan he cast on the world. It availed him naught, and worse, he was aware of even that.