Quotes About Consciousness

As it acquires greater intelligence, it also gains awareness of the inseparability of all life and the direct connection of all with God and Creator.

C?l?toria prin toate vie?ile noastre este o reamintire con?tient? a tot ceea ce ?tim.

I think that sometimes the only real thing is now.

I'm so alone it's like being dead but still conscious.

I'm feeling so much and thinking so little.

Well then, Elise," Marceline says, using my name for the first time since I've known her. "I guess it's time for you to wake up.

The ones who are already dead but don't realize it.

I read novels to indulge in a concentrated and directed inner activity that parallels -- and thereby tunes up, accentuates -- my own inner life.

If you learn to go beyond the jabbering of your mind, and can go to the deeper aspects of your consciousness, then body, breath, and mind will not come in your way.

By concentrated meditation—in other words, by the stilling and focusing of the vibrations of consciousness (chitta vritti nirodha)—the individualized soul is enabled to reverse this process and thus perceive its subtler reality, its Divine origin, its true Self.

There is now a transparancy to things in this new life—as though one's body and all the objects were but holographic images with no substantial reality.

Your goal is not to battle with the mind, but to witness the mind.

One must know one's own secret.

True meditation gives us, as it were, wings for flight to a higher realm and thus detaches us from terrestrial fetters.

Ordinary sleep gives partial rest, while yoga nidra gives total rest to the body and the conscious mind. Dreaming may be therapeutic in many ways, but dreams that consume sleeping hours are never healthy. Waking, dreaming, and sleeping are the states of mind, and if mind is trained by the practice of yoga nidra, one can consciously go to deep sleep and wake up without being haunted by nightmares and fearful dreams. Here I am

Mind desired physical existence and so evolved a body in which to manifest itself.

Breathing is the one physical function which is both involuntary (it goes on by itself) and voluntary (we can control our respiration consciously). The staggering significance of this simple insight was obvious to India's inner explorers: the breath is therefore the key to control over the autonomic nervous system, that part of our functioning we Westerners were taught lies outside our awareness and runs entirely unconsciously.

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity

This universe is my body. I am the Infinite, only I am not conscious of it now. But I am struggling to get this consciousness of the Infinite, and perfection will be reached when full consciousness of this Infinite comes.

The less the thought of the body, the better. For it is the body that drags us down. It is attachment, identification, which makes us miserable. That is the secret: To think that I am the spirit and not the body, and that the whole of this universe with all its relations, with all its good and all its evil, is but as a series of paintings — scenes on a canvas — of which I am the witness.

Turn thy gaze inward, wherein resides the Supreme Self

The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all.

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

You must worship the Self in Krishna, not Krishna as Krishna.