August Wilhelm von Schlegel Quotes

At times I think and at times I am.

Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.

I think, therefore I am.

I am, therefore I'll think.

Knowing yourself is to be rooted in Being, instead of lost in your mind.

Your entire universe is in your mind and nowhere else. To expand the universe, expand your mind.

Sometimes I think, sometimes I am .

As long as I am thinking, I am alive.

You are not a human being. You are not your body, you are not your mind, and you are not your soul. These are things that You have. The You that has these things - indeed, that has given your Self these things - is far bigger than any of them, and even all of them put together.

This perceiving, active being is what I call mind, spirit, soul, or myself. By which words I do not denote any one of my ideas, but a thing entirely distinct from them, wherein they exist, or, which is the same thing, whereby they are perceived; for the existence of an idea consists in being perceived.

I desire therefore I exist.

Life is consciousness.

Don't we introduce time as a means of becoming more evolved? The brain has evolved but is there evolution inwardly? Can the brain dominated by time not be subservient to it?

All thought of something is at the same time self-consciousness [...] At the root of all our experiences and all our reflections, we find [...] a being which immediately recognises itself, [...] and which knows its own existence, not by observation and as a given fact, nor by inference from any idea of itself, but through direct contact with that existence. Self-consciousness is the very being of mind in action.

Without consciousness there would, practically speaking, be no world, for the world exists as such only in so far as it is consciously reflected and considered by a psyche. Consciousness is a precondition of being.

Your duty is to be, and not to be this or that. I Am That I Am sums up the whole truth; the method is summarized in Be Still.

Oh, the glory of growth, silent, mighty, persistent, inevitable! To awaken, to open up like a flower to the light of a fuller consciousness!

Human beings are on a journey of awareness, which has momentarily been interrupted by extraneous forces.

The consciousness of life is higher than life.

Life is. I am. Anything might happen.

Your mind is right now filled with old thoughts. Not only old thoughts, but mostly someone else’s old thoughts. It’s important now, it’s time now, to change your mind about some things. This is what evolution is all about.

Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at the moment.

One of the keys to harnessing this potentially unlimited power of the mind is to expand your level of self-awareness.

An 'I' without a body is a possibility. But a body without an 'I' is utterly impossible.

I understand the law through the operation of which my own character is developed from my own acts and thoughts; therefore, I will guard with care all that goes into its development.