Quotes About Consciousness

Everything is in your own heart.

I think, therefore I am really not there.

Ignorance is in each cell of our body and our consciousness. It's like a drop of ink diffused in a glass of water.

The Buddha told him, When we sit, we know we are sitting. When we walk, we know we are walking. When we eat, we know we are eating

Life is real; it's not a dream when mindfulness is there.

Do everything in mindfulness so you can really be there, so you can love.

Your concept or perception of reality is not reality. When you are caught in your perceptions and ideas, you lose reality.

Every time we truly stop and look deeply, the result is a better understanding of the true nature of what is there inside us and around us.

The greatest miracle is to be alive.

Once there is seeing, there must be acting. Otherwise, what's the use of seeing?

To be mindful means to be aware. It's the energy that knows

mindfulness is not something that is only done in a meditation hall; it is also done in the kitchen, in the garden, when we are on the telephone, when we are driving a car, when we are doing the dishes.

Whether we are in the city, the countryside, or the wilderness, we need to sustain ourselves by choosing our surroundings carefully and nourishing our awareness in each moment.

The present moment is the only moment available to us, and it is the door to all moments.

When you get free from views and words, reality reveals itself to you and that is Nirvana.

EVERY OBJECT of the mind is itself mind.

We produce ourselves, we product our own future. We have to offer our best thoughts, speech and actions. Mindfulness helps us to know whether we're producing the right thing for future and helps us remember that what we produce is us, is our continuation.

There is a film, an image stored in your consciousness. Every time your mind goes back to the past and you look at that image or watch that film, you suffer again.

I'm being completely myself, following my breath, conscious of my presence, and conscious of my thoughts and actions. There's no way I can be tossed around mindlessly like a bottle slapped here and there on the waves. The

You cannot take the mind out of the body, and you cannot take the body out of the mind.

We may think that if we ignore our fears, they'll go away. But if we bury worries and anxieties in our consciousness, they continue to affect us and bring us more sorrow

Whether you can see the Buddha or not depends on you, on the state of your being.

Chopping wood is meditation. Carrying water is meditation. Be mindful 24 hours a day, not just during the one hour you may allot for formal meditation or reading scripture and reciting prayers. Each act must be carried out in mindfulness. Each act is a rite, a ceremony. Raising your cup of tea to your mouth is a rite. Does the word rite seems too solemn ? I use that word in order to jolt you into the realization of the life-and-death matter of awareness.

What is the purpose of eating a tangerine? It is to eat the tanger­ine. During the time you eat a tangerine, eating that tanger­ine is the most important thing in your life.