#consciousness

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

The primary illusion is that I am a separate, lonely center of consciousness and action, placed in a world that is not me.

The sensation of 'I' is not in fact separate from the experience of 'now'.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

What we do not make conscious emerges in our lives as destiny.

Outgrowing requires a new level of consciousness. Some higher or wider interest appeared on the patient's horizon, and through this broadening of his outlook, the insoluble problem lost its urgency.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

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

To perceive is to suffer; for to be conscious is to be touched by the friction of existence.

Human existence cannot be meaningless. As long as we have breath, as long as we are conscious, we are responsible to answer the demands of reality.

Consciousness does not appear to itself chopped up in bits. It is nothing jointed; it flows. A 'river' or a 'stream' are the metaphors by which it is most naturally described.

Every thought is part of a personal consciousness, always changing, sensibly continuous, and interested in some parts of its object to the exclusion of others.

The trailing clouds of glory are never completely dispersed from our consciousness.

All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.

Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.

All life is Yoga. The whole world is a manifestation of the Spirit.

Brahma Satyam Jagan Mithya, Jivo Brahmaiva Naparah. (Brahman alone is real; the universe is phenomenal; the individual self is non-different from Brahman).

Action cannot destroy ignorance, for it is not in conflict with it. Knowledge alone destroys ignorance as light destroys deep darkness.

Yogas chitta vritti nirodhah. (Yoga is the stilling of the fluctuations and modifications of the mind).

Tada drashtuh svarupe avasthanam. (Then the Seer abides in its own true, untouched nature).

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

Compassion is the highest flower of consciousness.

The Heart is the center from which everything springs.

The body is the insentient machine; the Self is the conscious driver.

Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.

Do not search for God outside; look into the mirror of Consciousness.

Dwell in the fortress of your own divine consciousness.

Our thoughts are not our own; we are part of an immense mental ocean.