Universal Consciousness Quotes

We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.

We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.

Everything is the same spirit watching itself through the eyes of different observers.

Vedanta teaches that consciousness is singular, all happenings are played out in one universal consciousness and there is no multiplicity of selves.

Inspiration is God making contact with itself.

I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.

There is one simple Divinity found in all things, one fecund Nature, preserving mother of the universe insofar as she diversely communicates herself, casts her light into diverse subjects, and assumes various names.

Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.

Not enough people in this world, I think, carry a cosmic perspective with them. It could be life-changing.

Guru, God and Self are One

I like to keep an open mind, but I do think there is some form of energy that exists separate to our flesh and blood. I do think that there's some kind of an energy that leaves the body when it dies, but I certainly don't have religious beliefs particularly.

The world is a living being - one nature, one soul. Keep that in mind.

But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.

Mysticism is not this or that particular cup on the table; it is the water poured into all of them.

National boundaries are not evident when we view the Earth from space. Fanatical ethnic or religious or national chauvinisms are a little difficult to maintain when we see our planet as a fragile blue crescent fading to become an inconspicuous point of light against the bastion and citadel of the stars.

The universe has a body and soul and evolves through cosmic time. As microcosms of stardust, we do the same.

God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so.

There is One Infinite Mind which of necessity includes all that is, whether it be the intelligence in man, the life in the animal, or the invisible Presence which is God.

Forget yourself. Become one with eternity. Become part of your environment.

We live in a spiritual Universe. God is in, through, around and for us.

I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.

All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.

On the deepest level, what I know for sure is that who I am, essentially, is consciousness and consciousness is timeless and it transcends the body; it transcends the psychological "me," the egoic self. Everybody can know themselves as consciousness.

I’m struck again by the irony that spaceflight-conceived in the cauldron of nationalist rivalries and hatreds-brings with it a stunning transnational vision. You spend even a little time contemplating the Earth from orbit and the most deeply engrained nationalisms begin to erode. They seem the squabbles of mites on a plum.

Remember that you are this universe and that this universe is you.