Quotes about Consciousness

You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It's your call.

I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.

That's the biggest gift I can give anybody: 'Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you're doing and what you can do to prevent yourself from becoming ill.'

The true identity theft is not financial. It's not in cyberspace. It's spiritual. It's been taken.

Most Christian 'believers' tend to echo the cultural prejudices and worldviews of the dominant group in their country, with only a minority revealing any real transformation of attitudes or consciousness. It has been true of slavery and racism, classism and consumerism and issues of immigration and health care for the poor.

I think my worst problem is actually living in the moment and understanding everything that's going on. I feel like I'm in my own bubble.

Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.

When the mind is empty, silent, when it is in a state of complete negation - which is not blankness, nor the opposite of being positive, but a totally different state in which all thought has ceased - only then is it possible for that which is unnameable to come into being.

Live among men as if God beheld you speak to God as if men were listening.

Live with men as if God saw you converse with God as if men heard you.

One should count each day a separate life.

We preach to men as if they were conscious they were dying sinners, they are not; they are having a good time.