In the calm, deep waters of the mind, the wolf waits.

Perhaps the universe is a big fat consciousness and the matter is just an illusion.

The greatest crimes in the world are not committed against the body, but against the freedom of the consciousness.

Princess Cookie’s cognitive pathways may have required a more comprehensive analysis. He knew that it was possible to employ certain progressive methods of neural interface, but he felt somewhat apprehensive about implementing them, for fear...

Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.

La coscienza è la scoperta che noi non siamo, siamo un divenire ma non siamo un essere.

I would rather be a conscious wrongdoer than a mindless saint.

Sometimes I long to forget… It is painful to be conscious of two worlds.

When you can no longer tell the difference between being yourself and being love, you are not far from waking up.

Was it possible that Ranulph, too, was a real person, a person inside whose mind things happened? He had thought that he himself was the only real person in a field of human flowers. For...

Was he a great genius? Was he an eccentric? Was he someone who was trying to raise his consciousness in a way people can’t even imagine? He was on his own path and everybody gets...

We grow up to believe that we are supposed to somehow “become” who we are meant to be through the trial-by-fire that is life here on planet Earth.Reality is…there’s no “becoming”.It’s actually all an “un-becoming”,...

On our Journey, we should not dwell on the guilt emerging because of dropping back to Ego-dominated state; instead, we should celebrate that we are in the state of the Presence!!

I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is improbably biased toward the consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed.

People and situations always show us what we need to see and learn about ourselves, and when we take responsibility for our own feelings, how others treat us also changes. Everything in life is there...

Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.

Idris: Are all people like this?The Doctor: Like what?Idris: So much bigger on the inside.

Looking for consciousness in the brain is like looking inside a radio for the announcer

It’s not the world that needs to change – it’s our consciousness we must raise

Once out of your cradle, you don’t focus on the world in the abstract, perceiving things for the first time, but in synchrony with your accumulated knowledge, which enriches and helps define your experience, as...

We only know a person’s intentions through awareness. The mind is easily influenced by the suggestions and emotions of others. We are either manipulated into serving others, or willingly surrendering to assist them. One is...

One of my relatives invented the sensory deprivation tank. Appropriately, most of my family has never seen or heard of him.

All wisdom contracts then expands, contracts then expands. That is how consciousness evolves.

But Lao Tzu’s teaching suffers from the major problem endemic to such visionaries. In the intervening two and a half millennia, his words have been misinterpreted and distorted by generations of adherents until his message...

In terms of idols which represented various gods: worshipping an idol or star cluster is no different than worshipping a concept.

Beliefs and definitions never clarify how Reality works — they only distort perception of it.

His brain and his heart knew this, but he couldn’t stop himself, and the razor of his conscience lent the undeniable thrill of pain to the act.

Consciousness is not about information but about its opposite: order. Consciousness is not a complex phenomenon; it is what consciousness is _about_ that is complex. It is presumably this fact that is the reason many...

Now I can broach the notion of suicide. It has already been felt what solution might be given. At this point the problem is reversed. It was previously a question of finding out whether or...

We are all students of the world; frail embodied consciousnesses struggling to understand, and be a meaningful part of this great, mysterious gift of life.

On a long flight, after periods of crisis and many hours of fatigue, mind and body may become disunited until at times they seem completely different elements, as though the body were only a home...

They might be drugs that alter the states of consciousness, or they might be states of transcendence reached in meditation. They might be moments of orgasm, or fugue states, or day-dreams that take you momentarily...

Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else.

Without awareness, the current of life cedes its sense of control to other deceptive agents that take you into a life that is toxic rather than nourishing.

Through having different conversations, I have ‘real-eyesed’ how common and easy it is to make decisions based on unquestioned belief systems, traditions and concepts we were raised with…by the very same humans who followed the...

You are here on earth to unearth who on earth you are.

As the soul seeks, then, for that which is the sustenance of the body—as what the food is to a developing, a growing body, so are the words of truth (which are life, which are...

We are consciousness playing a game with itself to see how it feels.

Our universe was created to perpetuate creation, it was not created to perpetuate consumption.

Through mastering the means of perception, the promise of who you are in physical form is opened with an increasing opportunity for fulfilment.

Quoting Father Seraphim:Our life hangs only by a breath. It is the thread that links you to the Father, the Source, which brought you into being. Be conscious of this thread, and go where you...

The future is a forward escape into the past

Time is consciousness.

When the power of breath (Sa) is controlled it becomes rested (as) and in thatstate it transforms into protector(tra); this is the basic principle of life andconsciousness, wherein the senses, mind, intelligence all are protected...

What if I told you, that consciousness is not in the body, body is embedded in the consciousness.

How I wished during those sleepless hours that I belonged to a different nation, or better still, to none at all.

Memory is essential to who we are, and memories can be both implicit and explicit – unconscious and conscious.

When we are, love is not.When we are not, love is.

The WakingI wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.I learn by going where I have to go.We think by feeling. What is there to know?I hear...

From the Absolute to the Relative-from the Infinite to the Finite-from the Undifferentiated to the Differentiated-from the Unconditioned to the Conditioned and again from the Relative to the Absolute. That is the whole truth of...