Quotes about Consciousness

We cannot attain the presence of God because we're already totally in the presence of God. What's absent is awareness

One of the great surprises is that humans come to full consciousness precisely by shadowboxing, facing their own contradictions, and making friends with their own mistakes and failings. People who have had no inner struggles are invariably both superficial and uninteresting.

Some form of alternative consciousness is the only freedom from these addictions and from cultural lies. If the universal addiction is to our own

Thus we are strongly warned against such negativity in every way, and such things are called "sin" or even the state of "hell," which is not really a geographical place but a very real state of consciousness. All rewards and punishments must primarily be seen as first of all now—and inherent in good and bad behavior.

I personally describe contemplation as "non-dual consciousness" and find that it is necessary to overcome the "stinking thinking" of most addicts, which tends to be "all-or-nothing thinking."3 We could say that authentic spirituality is invariably a matter of emptying the mind and filling the heart at the same time.

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it." I

When you are present, you will know the Presence. It is that simple, and it is that hard.

I have never been separate from God, nor can I be, except in my mind.

Religion, at its best, helps people to bring this foundational divine love into ever-increasing consciousness. In other words, it's more about waking up than about cleaning up.

Your True Self is that part of you that knows who you are and whose you are, although largely unconsciously.

Presence is experienced in a participative way, outside the mind.

The biblical symbol of the Universal and Eternal Christ standing at both ends of cosmic time was intended to assure us that the clear and full trajectory of the world we know is an unfolding of consciousness with "all creation groaning in this one great act of giving birth" (Romans 8:22).