Consciousness Quotes

"The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion." "Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed." "Everybody is fundamentally the ultimate reality. Not God in a politically kingly sense, but God in the sense of being the self, the deep down basic whatever there is. And you're all that... only you're pretending you're not." "One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious." "The past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is" "You didn't come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here" "To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time" "Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them." "The fear is simply because you are not living with life, you are living in your mind." "Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing." "Let go of your mind and then be mindful. Close your ears and listen." "Offend in neither word nor deed. Eat with moderation. Live in your heart. Seek the highest consciousness. Master yourself according to the law. This is the simple teaching of the awakened." "Where id was, there ego shall be." "Towards the outside, at any rate, the ego seems to maintain clear and sharp lines of demarcation." "Originally the ego includes everything, later it detaches from itself the external world." "The ego-feeling we are aware of now is thus only a shrunken vestige of a far more extensive feeling." "The madman is a dreamer awake." "The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water." "When we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another." "We have the capacity to change, to lead meaningful and productive lives by awakening our consciousness."