However, just as earlier, when Christianity was introduced it didn’t eliminate pagan conceptualizations, but layered new beliefs on top of them, so science simply added to the western mindset. It didn’t fully displace religion, luck,...

But for centuries, since the capitulation of Judah, the Jewish peoples had been almost continuously under foreign control. So, where was Yahweh all this time while his people suffered…? Far from ever questioning the very...

Regardless of type, however, the mechanism of a religion works like this: children, from the time they can communicate, are taught to see reality in a certain way. They are indoctrinated with a pre-defined belief...

Knowing the Truth is not based on knowledge, but on being “it”.

Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as the reality of the external world, and it is just as imperfectly reported to us through the...

We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else’s mind.

You are what you consume, and as an organism and consciousness, you in fact become a commodity and predator yourself.

hallowing” the things of Creation. By a tremendous heave of the spirit, the devout man frees the divine sparks trapped in the mute things of time; he uplifts the forms and moments of creation, bearing...

I’ve come to think that flourishing consists of putting yourself in situations in which you lose self-consciousness and become fused with other people, experiences, or tasks. It happens sometimes when you are lost in a...

It is not solely or chiefly in virtue of the divine image that man effectively resembles God, but in virtue of his consciousness of being an image and the movement whereby the soul, passing in...

At one conference Hameroff told Dennett, publicly, “You know, Dan, maybe the reason you like this [mechanistic] idea is because you’re a zombie. And maybe the reason I see things differently is because, I’m not.”Hameroff...

If you want to see, then begin to see how you see.

This ‘web of discourses’ as Robyn called it…is as much a biological product as any of the other constructions to be found in the animal world. (Clothes too, are part of the extended phenotype of...

Consciousness is everywhere, let it fill you up.

There is no “I”, there’s only “we”. Meaning all you can touch, and all that you see is a part of you, and a part of me.

„We are the embodiment of Life, we are born into this world as a result of a Miracle.

Once again, we are reminded that awakening, or enlightenment is not the property of Buddhism, any more than Truth is the property of Christianity. Neither the Buddha nor the Christ belongs exclusively to the communities...

Eternity is best conceived if thought of as a joining of human and divine consciousness. Eternity and time should be thought of without any connections. Therefore, it is understood that eternity, not as immeasurable time,...

Reality is but several levels of consciousness that can be accepted or dismissed depending on what one perceives.

Sunny put on eyebrows, eyelashes, makeup, matching pajamas, a silk robe, and then say looking at herself in the vanity mirror in her bathroom. She had experienced moments in her life when she realized that...

We are all trying to find a path back to the present moment. And good enough reason to just be happy here… Mindfulness meditation is just a trick for doing that. It’s a trick for...

The neurological condition of echopraxia is to autonomy as blindsight is to consciousness.

The nature of consciousness is to point beyond itself. It is a tending toward or pointing to… Since consciousness points beyond itself, it is in its very being a self-transcendence.

We are therefore blessed with powerful minds yet at the same time cursed, not only to die, but to know that we must.

Satan’s despair is absolute because Satan, as pure spirit, is pure consciousness, and for Satan (and all men in his predicament) every increase in consciousness is an increase in despair.

Want of love is a degree of callousness; for love is the perfection of consciousness. We do not love because we do not comprehend, or rather we do not comprehend because we do not love....

You never saw an angel, because they don’t exist – at least not in this Reality. They do exist in the realm of imagination – but then, just about anything can be conjured up there...

So, am I some sort of Savior? Not hardly. Save yourself the worry about needing to be saved from anything.

The challenge of elucidating living processes — including consciousness and all its baggage which we bundle together as ‘the human spirit’ — is only one example of a challenge where hard work is paying off...

The activity of loving kindness is the bridge that allows you to slowly, slowly realise the wisdom and perfection of this moment.

Consciousness of self was an inherent function of matter once it was organized as life, and if that function was enhanced it turned against the organism that bore it, strove to fathom and explain the...

The world suddenly opened up, and she was coming to new realizations and a greater awareness, concerning the nature of reality, and the world, which her mortal mind had previously been unable to conceive. She...

Whatever the story means in the story which I told you, the fact of thinking in terms of stories does not isolate human beings as something separate from the starfish and the sea anemones, the...

If you don’t believe in God, it may help to remember this great line of Geneen Roth’s: that awareness is learning to keep yourself company. And then learn to be more compassionate company, as if...

I am Sama Veda among the Vedas; I am Indra among the Devas; I am the mind among the senses; I am the consciousness in living beings.

As I write by phonics, like insomnia I will always live the onyx night for revealing, and, upon it, still I’ll steal the light of day away to keep building at speeds hypersonic.

If you seek small things to do, and do them well, great things will seek you, and demand to be performed.

Suffering occurs when love’s two hands pull your soul in two directions.

The beast lives unhistorically; for it ‘goes into’ the present, like a number, without leaving any curious remainder.

Therefore, in my incontrovertible capacity as plaintiff and defendant judge and accused, I condemn this nature, which has so brazenly and unceremoniously inflicted this suffering… since I am unable to destroy Nature, I am destroying...

The strange thing about magic is how easily one can feel familiar with it. Much like a dream, its message can infill the senses of the soul and persuade the consciousness in a way that...

Consciousness is the chronic pain of life, and all higher organisms suffer it every waking moment.

Listen to your body. The quality of your communication matters.

A TODOS, en algún momento, se nos ha revelado nuestra existencia como algo particular, intransferible y precioso. Casi siempre esta revelación se sitúa en la adolescencia. Eldescubrimiento de nosotros mismos se manifiesta como un sabernos...

… the most important concept ever put forth was that matter, ALL matter, with no exceptions from stone to star to starfish to student to sovereign, is as divine as all else in the cosmos,...

For a Siddhar yogi, time is precious. It is important to utilize every moment to evolve into ever higher states of consciousness. We understand stagnancy as decay and for growth, we constantly discard the old...

When we say we understand something, but we do not experience it, we do not understand it. Understanding and experiencing are the same thing. For example, we may say: I understand the importance of forgiveness...

We make fiction because we are fiction … It lived us into being and it lives us still.

Only if we live consciously, we can die consciously.

When someone studies well, has a successful career, or deals with difficulties well, people think he is a wise man. However, such successes do not mean that one is wise. True wisdom is to know...