States Of Consciousness Quotes - Page 4

• Change of state is not the point; recognizing the Changeless is the point, recognizing primordial Emptiness is the point, and if you are breathing and vaguely awake, that state of consciousness will do just fine.

  Ken Wilber

  Breathing, Emptiness, Consciousness

  Ken Wilber (2004). “The Simple Feeling of Being: Visionary, Spiritual, and Poetic Writings”, p.244, Shambhala Publications

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• There is only one real computer - the universe - whose hardware is made up of non-spatial states of consciousness and software is made up of superhuman as well as non-superhuman thoughts.

  Kedar Joshi

  Real, Computer, Consciousness

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• Unless we possess high spiritual qualifications, there is no doubt that the events life throws upon us will give rise to frustration, emotional turmoil, and other distorted states of consciousness. These imperfect states of mind in turn give rise to imperfect activities, and the seeds of suffering are ever planted in a steady flow.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Frustration, Emotional

  Dalai Lama (1994). “The Path to Enlightenment”, p.129, Shambhala

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• To become aware of the subtlety of nature you need to be alert. The moment you become alert you become still... thinking subsides. That is actually a higher state of consciousness than thinking.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Thinking, Needs, Consciousness

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• If you were in a perfected state of consciousness, you would only see perfection in all things.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Perfection, Consciousness

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• Meditation without selfless giving is not enough. You may go into very high states of consciousness but the rough edges will still be there - there may be lots of selfish motives lurking within the self - that you don't see.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Selfish, Yoga

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• One of the great mysteries of our current state of consciousness is how we can live in a world where absolutely nothing is fixed, and yet perceive a world of 'fixedness.' But once we start to see reality more as it is, we realize that nothing is permanent, so how could the future be fixed? How could we live in anything but a world of continual possibility? The realization allows us to feel more alive.

  Joseph Jaworski

  Motivational, Reality, Realization

  Joseph Jaworski, Peter Senge (2011). “Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership”, p.11, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Drugs took me to places; they were like portals. It's kind of a cliché, but they were like portals to altered states of consciousness into ways of imagining the world, or seeing a world beyond this world, or seeing a world beyond this world that I might not have gotten to unless I discovered meditation and a very deep, intense spiritual path based on contemplation and meditation.

  Anne Lamott

  Spiritual, Meditation, Drug

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. April 6, 2010.

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• Usually when I drank too much, I could guess why I did so, the objective being to murder a state of consciousness that I didn't have the courage to sustain--a fear of heights, which sometimes during the carnival of the 1960s accompanied my attempts to transform the bourgeois journalist into an avant-garde novelist. The stepped-up ambition was a commonplace among the would-be William Faulkners of my generation; nearly always it resulted in commercial failure and literary embarrassment.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Ambition, Height, Too Much

  "The war on drugs and alcohol is a war against human nature" by Lewis Lapham, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2012.

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• Banning capital punishment takes us to a higher state of consciousness.

  Jerry Brown

  Punishment, Consciousness, States

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• The states of consciousness are all that psychology needs to do her work with. Metaphysics or theology may prove the Soul to exist; but for psychology the hypothesis of such a substantial principle of unity is superfluous.

  William James

  Soul, Psychology, Unity

  William James (1984). “Psychology, Briefer Course”, p.181, Harvard University Press

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• What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behavior is that people would choose an altered state of consciousness that's toxic and ostensibly destroys most aspects of your normal life, because for a brief moment you feel okay.

  Moby

  People, Addiction, Normal

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• One must remember that the higher he climbs the spiritual ladder toward the Kingdom of Heaven, the more will he grant others their own freedom and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

  Paul Twitchell

  Spiritual, Freedom, Giving

  "All about ECK".

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• Whenever you become anxious or stressed, outer purpose has taken over, and you lost sight of your inner purpose. You have forgotten that your state of consciousness is primary, all else secondary.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Taken, Sight

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.197, Penguin

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• Ostara, if one dies while in these othere states of consciousness, one dies indeed. this begs the question, are dreams truly only ever dreams?

  Nancy Holder

  Dream, Consciousness, States

  Nancy Holder, Debbie Viguié (2010). “Wicked 2: Legacy & Spellbound”, p.175, Simon and Schuster

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• The point is seeing that THIS - the immediate, everyday and present experience - is IT, the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe. I believe that if this state of consciousness could become more universal, the pretentious nonsense which passes for the serious business of the world would dissolve in laughter.

  Alan Watts

  Happiness, Laughter, Believe

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• Enlightenment is the unaltered state of consciousness

  Adyashanti

  Enlightenment, Consciousness, States

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• Life is a state of consciousness.

  Emmet Fox

  Life, Inspire, Consciousness

  Emmet Fox (1942). “The seven main aspects of God”

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• Gratitude is a divine attitude in the wisdom traditions. It takes you out from the ego self and takes you into the higher self. That higher state of consciousness initiates self repair, self regulation and healing.

  Deepak Chopra

  Gratitude, Attitude, Healing

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• Having reached a high level of realization (or having accomplished anything in life), don't get excited or puffed up with pride but remain calm, humble, and in "perfect equanimity" if you want to continue in this deep state of consciousness.

  Laozi

  Humble, Pride, Perfect

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• Meditation is a deliberate attempt to pierce into the higher states of consciousness and finally go beyond it. The art of meditation is the art of shifting the focus of attention to ever subtler levels, without losing one's grip on the levels left behind. (...) Save all your energies and time for breaking the wall your mind had built around you. Believe me, you will not regret.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Art, Wall, Regret

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• You don't meditate to experiment with altered states of consciousness or whatever else. You meditate only to perceive by yourself that everything is within us, every atom of the universe, and that we already possess everything we would wish to find outside of ourselves.

  Daniel Odier

  Wish, Atoms, Altered States Of Consciousness

  Daniel Odier (1997). “Tantric Quest: An Encounter with Absolute Love”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• Man's chief delusion is his conviction that there are causes other than his own state of consciousness.

  Neville Goddard

  Men, Causes, Consciousness

  Neville Goddard (2016). “The Power of Awareness: With linked Table of Contents”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• As the practical value of altering consciousness becomes recognized, procedures to effect these alterations will become increasingly ordinary and unremarkable. The whole concept of changing states of consciousness will cease to have a threatening or exotic aspect.

  Michael Crichton

  Ordinary, Exotic, Consciousness

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• It's not about what you do, it's about being. It's about a state of consciousness or state of awareness of being where you're residing within your heart and everything begins to change without actually doing anything.

  Drunvalo Melchizedek

  Heart, Consciousness, Awareness

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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