Quotes about Consciousness

When you are present, you will know the Presence. It is that simple, and it is that hard.

I have never been separate from God, nor can I be, except in my mind.

Religion, at its best, helps people to bring this foundational divine love into ever-increasing consciousness. In other words, it's more about waking up than about cleaning up.

Your True Self is that part of you that knows who you are and whose you are, although largely unconsciously.

Presence is experienced in a participative way, outside the mind.

The biblical symbol of the Universal and Eternal Christ standing at both ends of cosmic time was intended to assure us that the clear and full trajectory of the world we know is an unfolding of consciousness with "all creation groaning in this one great act of giving birth" (Romans 8:22).

The self-same moment that we find God in ourselves, we also find ourselves inside God

This needed work is indeed "spiritual warfare," as the desert monks called it, since it takes conscious and sustained struggle to be aware of the shadow self—which only takes ever more subtle disguises the "holier" you get.

Such utterly free and gratuitous love is the only love that validates, transforms, and changes us at the deepest levels of consciousness. It is what we all desire and what we were created for. Once you allow it for yourself, you will almost naturally become a conduit of the same for others.

This realization that Someone is living in us and through us is exactly how we plug into a much larger mind and heart beyond our own.

To keep the mind space open, you need some form of meditative practice—something much more than saying prayers. In fact, if recitation of prayers does not lead to a change in consciousness, it is actually counterproductive.

Only presence can know presence. And our real presence can know Real Presence.