Conscious State Quotes

For often, when one is asleep, there is something in consciousness which declares that what then presents itself is but a dream.

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.

Good books do not make people wiser or happier--only more conscious.

See who is the doubter, who is the thinker. It is the ego. Hold it; the other thoughts will die away - the ego will be left pure. See the source from where the ego arises and abide in it. That is pure consciousness.

To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.

The point of the overall meditative path is to have Wakefulness (or Consciousness as Such) transcend and include all state-realms, so it ceases to "black out" or "forget" various changes of state (such as dreaming and deep sleep), and instead recognizes a "constant Consciousness" or ever-present nondual Awareness, the union (and transcendence) of individual finite self and infinite Spirit.

The animal has its happiness in the senses, the human beings in their intellect, and the gods in spiritual contemplation. It is only to the soul that has attained to this contemplative state that the world really becomes beautiful.

After all, what is suffering but an awareness of suffering?

Dreams and waking life are both the same kinds of things. The difference is that dreaming is perceiving free of external constraints, whereas perceiving otherwise is dreaming true. Meaning what you dream about actually happens.

There's this point between conscious and subconscious when you realize you were asleep and resting, and you were having all kinds of anxiety dreams about the film and all the things that can go wrong. You get in this hypnagogic state, where you're waking up and realizing, "Oh, it was just a dream."

To be conscious of Being, you need to reclaim consciousness from the mind. This is one of the most essential tasks on your spiritual journey.

See who is the subject; and this inquiry leads you to pure Consciousness beyond the subject.

How do you know, right now, that you are aware of being aware, or conscious?

Not in the state of unconsciousness, but in full awareness when the higher Power will descend into and direct us, then only the yogic life will begin.

The quality of our life depends on the quality of the seeds that lie deep in our consciousness.

On the stage it is always now; the personages are standing on that razor-edge, between the past and the future, which is the essential character of conscious being.