Quotes about Consciousness

Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake.

Intuition is the very force or activity of the soul in its experience through whatever has been the experience of the soul itself.

There are materials enough in every man's mind to make a hell there.

You are what you pay attention to. No attention, no life. Everything comes to life when you pay attention to

Things may happen around you, and things may happen to you, but the only things that really count are the things that happen in you." 

The Book of Life says, "As a man thinketh, so is he, and as he continues to think, so he remains."6 Earl Nightingale asked the question: "What's wrong with men today?" He answered the question by saying, "Men simply don't think!" Not only do we often not think, but even when we do think, we think with the world mind. This is why we must re-think our lives!

Mindfulness is often spoken of as the heart of Buddhist meditation. It's not about Buddhism, but about paying attention. That's what all meditation is, no matter what tradition or particular technique is used.

We are graced with a greater capacity for direct contact with our own higher power than most of us are in the habit of using.

And this is the final meaning of work: the extension of human consciousness. The lesser meaning of work is the achieving of self-preservation.

Though the Life Force supplies us with its own purpose, it has no other brains to work with than those it has painfully and imperfectly evolved in our heads.

You don't need the iPhone: you have the most exquisite apparatus in the known universe sitting right in your head - the most complex organization of matter in the entire universe. And here are we, feeling a little depressed, feeling like we're not getting where we need to be, when really you might be exactly where you need to be.

Therefore when the mind knows itself and loves itself, there remains a trinity, that is the mind, love and knowledge.