2,734 Quotes About Consciousness

Here we are, centuries down the pike in our cultural and scientific evolution, and we are still trying to figure out where the nothingness meets the something-ness. The problem is that, though science can now look into the subatomic world, it still cannot see deeply enough to uncover the depths of the human experience.

What is life to Spirit, is death to the ego.

Consciousness says 'I am,' but it is the self that says 'I am this or that.

The enlightened sages speak of surrender to the guru. This is not to be taken literally as surrender to some personage embodied in a teacher. Instead it means to surrender the belief that you are an individual so that you may embrace what you are as consciousness

A wave on top of the ocean is still the ocean; it is still made of the same substance. Although it seems to be differentiated, it is still the ocean. It cannot move or change course from the entirety of the ocean, nor can it reorder the ocean so that it can do something that the rest of the water is not doing.

Without trust between the spiritual teacher and student it is not possible to attain to no-mind, because to attain no-mind needs trust.

We would do well to ask how people describe themselves.

Attachments to the self-and/or others, give birth to Karma.

At the deepest level of the human heart, there is no simple, singular self. Deep within, there is a gallery of different selves. Each one of these figures expresses a different part of your nature. Sometimes they will come into contradiction and conflict with each other.