Quotes about Consciousness

We tend to focus on the object and call it reality. We don't notice how our mind intervenes in our perception.

If the wave does not have to die to become water, then we do not have to die to enter the kingdom of God.

Live the actual moment. Only this actual moment is life.

When you abstain from eating and drinking animal products, fewer animals are slaughtered, and you contribute less to climate degradation.

What we lack is not an ideology or a doctrine that will save the world. What we lack is awareness of what we are, of what our true situation really is.

In the experience [of drinking tea], you are one with the tea, there is no distinction between subject and object, there is no evaluation, there is no discrimination. This pure sensation can be presented as an example of non-discriminative knowledge. It is that which introduces us to the heart of reality.

In a family, if there is one person who practices mindfulness, the entire family will be more mindful. Because of the presence of one member who lives in mindfulness, the entire family is reminded to live in mindfulness.

As the blade of a sword cannot cut itself, so a thought cannot see itself.

When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown!

I have given up reading any book outside the Bible for proof of its inspiration. This blessed Book is gripping my inner consciousness more and more, and is compelling my obeisance to what must.

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

Our motivation and our thoughts about our actions become as important as the actions themselves.