Quotes About Consciousness

We only know the universe from the point of view of beings with five senses. Suppose we obtain another sense, the whole universe must change for us.

If the Student thinks he is the Spirit, he will be a better Student. If the Lawyer thinks he is the Spirit, he will be a better Lawyer, and so on.

Where the whole world is awake, the sage sleeps.

A little of the infinite is projected into consciousness, and that we call our world.

It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thoughts make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light.

there is a continuity of mind, as the Yogis call it. The mind is universal. Your mind, my mind, all these little minds, are fragments of that universal mind, little waves in the ocean; and

But where the ignorant are asleep, there the sage keeps awake

There was never a time when we did not exist.

THE WHOLE LIFE IS A SUCCESSION OF DREAMS; MY AMBITION IS TO BE A CONSCIOUS DREAMER, THATS ALL.

When you step beyond thought and intellect and all reasoning, then you have made the first step towards God; and that is the beginning of life.

When by analyzing his own mind, man comes face to face, as it were, with something which is never destroyed, something which is, by its own nature, eternally pure and perfect, he will no more be miserable, no more unhappy.

Every work that we do, every movement of the body, every thought that we think, leaves such an impression on the mind-stuff, and even when such impressions are not obvious on the surface, they are sufficiently strong to work beneath the surface, subconsciously. What we are every moment is determined by the sum total of these impressions on the mind.

Who is the seer? The Self of man, the Purusha. What is the scene? The whole of nature beginning with the mind, down to gross matter.

As such he cannot experience the nature of the soul. ...

When this Sushumna current opens, and begins to rise, we get beyond the senses, our minds become supersensuous, superconscious -- we get beyond even the intellect

Then he sees that this attachment is all delusion.

We think and our bodies do not follow. Our actions do not harmonise with our thoughts.

Where it is dark night for the [sense-bound] world, the self controlled [man] is awake.

It is daylight for him. ...

You cannot die nor can I.

Come up, O lions, and shake off the delusion that you are sheep; you are souls immortal, spirits free, blest and eternal; ye are not matter, ye are not bodies; matter is your servant, not you the servant of matter.

Though this body has its beginning and end, the dweller in the body is infinite and without end" (note 7).

He has seen the glory of the Self

Then the gods become no gods; death becomes no death; life becomes no life.