Viktor E. Frankl Quotes

Life is a state of consciousness.

Being enlightened is just being aware. It's just being aware of something that you weren't aware before.

Scientology is the study of knowingness. It increases one's knowingness, but if a man were totally aware of what was going on around him, he would find it relatively simple to handle any outnesses in that.

A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.

The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.

The very act of questioning whether you exist proves you do, because you must be there for the doubt to be entertained in the first place.

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

Yoga is the settling of the mind into silence. When the mind has settled, we are established in our essential nature, which is unbounded Consciousness. Our essential nature is usually overshadowed by the activity of the mind.

I think therapy can be very revealing and useful for actors. You start to dig deep and understand certain mechanisms that you hadn't been aware of before and, you know, meanings behind things.

To realize that you are not your thoughts is when you begin to awaken spiritually.

For many people, the first indication of a spiritual awakening is that they suddenly become aware of their thoughts. They become a witness to their thoughts, so to speak. They are not completely identified with their mind anymore and so they begin to sense that there is a depth to them that they had never known before.

When every moment, you experience yourself as the source of creation, not as a piece of creation, then you are realized.

This impure world that we presently experience exists only in relation to our impure mind.

Meditation means undoing what the society has done to you. It has reduced you to a machine; you have to de-automatise yourself, you have to become a man again. You have to come out of this state of unconsciousness, of mechanicalness. You have to come out of this sleep. It is possible only through meditation. There is no other way, there has never been, there will never be. The only way to reduce a man to a machine is take away his consciousness force him to function unconsciously. And just the opposite is the way of meditation: give him back his consciousness.

First, meditation should be of a negative nature. Think away everything. Analyse everything that comes in the mind by the sheer action of the will. Next, assert what we really are-existence, knowledge, and bliss-being, knowing, and loving.

Awareness means grasping life just the way it is, without contamination by mental projections.

Consciousness ... is the phenomenon whereby the universe's very existence is made known.

Yoga is the cessation of the movements of the mind. Then there is abiding in the Seer's own form.

Watch, witness. Your body is not you; your mind is not you. You are just a pure witness.

We have been so blinded by thinking and feeling that we have never seen the World.

Drop dreaming and you are there where you have really been always, but you were never aware. All meditation techniques are just antidream efforts, just dream-negating devices.

Regain your senses, call yourself back, and once again wake up. Now that you realize that only dreams were troubling you, view this 'reality' as you view your dreams.

It was my misfortune-or salvation-to be at all times perfectly conscious of my misperceptions of reality.