Quotes About Consciousness

What quantum physics teaches us is that everything we thought was physical is not physical.

the character of our life is based upon how we perceive it.

Cuando se desarrolla un comportamiento preprogramado, la vigilante mente consciente puede intervenir, detener dicho comportamiento y crear una nueva respuesta.

Whoever realizes the Void* is filled with life and power and the love of all beings'.

Si quieres que tus sueños se hagan realidad... despierta". Te mando besos mil

When I listened within myself I saw that the world is what it is – nothing more, nothing less. Where reality is concerned, there is no "what should be." There is only what is, just the way it is, right now. The truth is prior to every story. And every story, prior to investigation, prevents us from seeing what's true.

This is true freedom: a mind that is no longer deceived by itself. Ruth:

Peace and joy naturally, inevitably, and irreversibly make their way into every corner of your mind, into every relationship and experience. The process is so subtle that you may not even have any conscious awareness of it. You may only know that you used to hurt and now you don't.

When you ask "Is it true?" for example, you may not really want to know. It could be that you'd rather stay with your statement than dive into the unknown. Blocking means rushing the process and answering with your conscious mind before the gentler polarity of mind (I call it "the heart") can answer.

The unquestioned mind is the world of suffering.

The basic realization that other people can't possibly be your problem, that it's your thoughts about them that are the problem—this realization is huge. This one insight will shake your whole world, from top to bottom

We always know what we're supposed to be doing – we're doing it.

We're usually aware of the feeling before the thought.

People used to ask me if I was enlightened, and I would say, "I don't know anything about that. I'm just someone who knows the difference between what hurts and what doesn't.

referente a la realidad, no hay ningún «debería ser». Sólo hay lo que es, de la manera que es y en este mismo momento. La verdad es anterior a cualquier historia. Y cualquier historia, antes de la investigación, nos impide ver lo que es verdad.

I had a real life completely separate from beliefs, from the common reality made up of shared beliefs...

Apa gunanya kesadaran yang datang terlambat? Setiap perbuatan pasti akan membawa buah yang sepadan. Demikianlah hukum kehidupan.

the existential paradox we all experience; we feel that we are immortal, yet we know that we will die.

understand what Ernest Becker meant when he said something like 'To live fully is to live with an awareness of the rumble of terror that underlies everything

Transcendental Meditation

Consciousness is a pitiful hostage of its flesh-envelope, whose surges, circuits, and secret murmurings it cannot stay or speed. This is the chthonian drama that has no climax but only an enedless round, cycle upon cycle. Microcosm mirrors macrocosm. Free will is stillborn in the red cells of our body, for there is no free will in nature. Our choices come to us prepackaged and special delivery, molded by hands not our own.

At some level, all love is combat, a wrestling with ghosts. We are only for something by being against something else. People who believe they are having pleasant, casual, uncomplex sexual encounters, whether with friend, spouse, or stranger are blocking from consciousness the tangle of psychodynamics at work, just as they block the hostile clashings of their dream life.

It's like now that I'm looking for inequality, I'm seeing it everywhere, categorizing a thousand great and small unfairnesses everywhere I go. Why didn't I really see this before?

You take a step, then another. That's the journey. But to take a step with your eyes open is not a journey at all, it's a remaking of your own mind.