Quotes About Consciousness

What do we know of ourselves except as through a prism, he wonders, the endless refractions of our mind turning back on itself like a dog chasing its own tail?

Attention, people talking about me: I. Am. Right. Here.

Demony s? archetypami. Mieszkaj? w ka?dym z nas

Yoga, a practice that is at the heart of Hindu philosophy and religion, means to yoke. Its goal is to unite man with Brahman, the Hindu concept of 'God' or (god-consciousness). Brahman represents everything. It is seen as the all, the absolute. Brahman is both all good and all bad and is the power and the force of the universe--the god of India.

The intellectuals of this era are simply blind to the reality of consciousness. Consciousness is who we are, how we think, and how we know.

He who has got rid of the disease 'Tomorrow' has the possibility to attain what he is here for.

It is necessary to observe yourself differently than you do in ordinary life. It is necessary to have a different attitude, not the attitude you had till now. You know where your habitual attitudes have led you till now. There is no sense in going on as before.

A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation itself brings about certain changes in his inner processes. He begins to understand that self-observation is an instrument of self-change, a means of awakening.

The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self.

I am That. Thou art That. All this is That. But that doesn't mean that that That is One Indivisible That.

Stop dreaming of immortality. Live it instead, right where it exists, in the continual present.

It's all in the mind.

Life goes on within you and without you

Because each work of art originates in the mind and feelings of a human being, it reaches its destination in the mind and feelings of another. A work of art, therefore, is a fact of consciousness quite as much as it is an object existing beside us in the physical world and an event in the chronology of the historical past. A history of art is therefore a history of consciousness.

The Feeling Being

I repeat: realistic, day-to-day needs should be the basis of organizing people and making them conscious of revolution-- that the world, the universe, must revolve-- that it will stop, stagnate, and die for no man's privilege.

What a miracle it is, this gift of time! Little marks on paper, the children of consciousness, sent down to us through the years.

Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.

I think there is no light in the world but the world and I think there is light

There are things We live among 'and to see them Is to know ourselves'.

I think always about the thing in which we are. Among the things in it is force, power. It is not enough to say that we like it or that we do not like it. It is here, we must first talk about it. We are not shoppers—or we are not first of all shoppers; it is not enough to say that we like or we do not like—

To see what is in front of one's nose requires a constant struggle.

Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.