Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.
Consciousness is the ground of all being; everything is consciousness. Beyond that, definition is impossible because any way we may attempt to define it would limit consciousness.
Consciousness is not mind; it is the ground of all being, the ground of both matter and mind. Matter and mind are both possibilities of consciousness.
Human self-understanding changes with time, and so also human consciousness deepens.
People involved in the inner journey discover the value of the feminine, the spiritually receptive and inclusive aspect of human consciousness.
Birth and death: there was the same consciousness of heightened existence and of her own elevated importance
Life is like a tree and its root is consciousness. Therefore, once we tend the root, the tree as a whole will be healthy.
Below the incandescent stars below the incandescent fruit, the strange experience of beauty; its existence is too much; it tears one to pieces and each fresh wave of consciousness is poison.
Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.
My father said he did have the mathematics of mind physics, or the physics of consciousness.
I came to the conclusion that we should aspire to increase the scope and scale of human consciousness in order to better understand what questions to ask. Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.
Purity means lack of hatred, jealousy, fear, greed and lust - the absence of anything that can stain consciousness.
Consciousness is the grave of things, the place where they cease to exist, beyond which they end. And when they have ended, it seems that they no longer have any essential existence except in the visions in me.
Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn’t know you knew.
Yoga is a generic name for any discipline by which one attempts to pass out of the limits of one's ordinary mental consciousness into a greater spiritual consciousness.
Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it.
All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness. The day is coming when you will wake to find, beyond all hope, that you have attained it, or else, that it was within your reach and you have lost it forever.
It is not the visions but the activity which makes you happy, and the joy and glory of the flier is the flight itself. . . Every time I have gone up in an aeroplane and looked down have realized I was free of the ground, I have had the consciousness of a new discovery. "I see:" I have thought, "This was the idea. And now I understand everything. "
Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.
An essential virtue is humility. . . . The principle of humility and prayer leads one to feel a need of divine guidance. Self-reliance is a virtue, but with it should go a consciousness of the need of superior help-a consciousness that as you walk firmly in the pathway of duty, there is a possibility of your making a misstep; and with that consciousness is a prayer, a pleading that God will inspire you to avoid that false step