Cosmic Consciousness Quotes

Uncovering your real desires can be terrifying. It can also set you spectacularly free.

We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal ONE.

It's weird, huh? It's like the minute you kinda give up control you just know what to do without doing anything.

The consciousness of the supreme Purusha remains above, but in the mind there may be a Purusha consciousness which they call the cosmic consciousness - it is wide, all-pervading, one. Outside this goes on the play of Prakriti.

The worldly person is insane from the point of view of the spiritual person.

When we heed the call of our deepest desires, we fulfill our true destinies.

Works of Art are meant to connect the human heart to inspiration, for cosmic consciousness to grow in the Supreme Reality rooted in Life and Being.

There is no happiness until the mind is still. The cause of all sickness and sadness is the fluctuation of the mind.

We live in succession, in division, in parts and particles. Meantime, within man, is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal One.

Knowledge has organizing power inherit in it. It is simply enough to know.

When we transcend our own thoughts, we get in touch with the womb of creation.

All descriptions of matter are descriptions of modes of human perception within consciousness.

You are no more in your body than Beethoven is inside your radio.

Real happiness lies in that which never comes nor goes, but simply is.

Your awareness has its source in unity. Instead of seeking outside yourself, go to the source to realize who you are.

Our practice is not to clear up the mystery. It is to make the mystery clear.

We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul.

What you seek, you already are.

If you completely accept something, it changes. If you completely accept it, it shifts.

The Universe is a mirror of consciousness.

God writes spiritual Mysteries on our heart, where they wait silently for discovery.

I am no longer the wave of consciousness thinking itself separated from the sea of cosmic consciousness. I am the ocean of Spirit that has become the wave of human life.

The Self is not in the realm of thought. The Self is in the gap between our thoughts. The cosmic psyche whispers to us softly in the gap between our thoughts.

We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related, the eternal ONE. And this deep power in which we exist and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one. We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul.

Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.

The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go.

I am everybody and every time, I always call myself by your name.

I always tell my students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don't let anyone throw you off.

When you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that's always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should be living, is the one that you will be living.

I have no sense of nationalism, only a cosmic consciousness of belonging to the human family.

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

Success, failure, pain, small furry animals, household products, freeways, Star Wars systems - all are interlinked in the dance of tantra, the disco of the mind, the ballroom of cosmic consciousness.

The bad news is you're falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there's no ground.

Space and time are not objects of perception, but qualities of awareness

Faith, consciousness, and awareness all exist beyond the thinking mind.

I understood that our entire universe is contained in the mind and the spirit. We may choose not to find access to it, we may even deny its existence, but it is indeed there inside us, and there are chemicals that can analyze its availability.

Craving security is the cause of insecurity. Freedom is knowing that the only point of arrival is now.

However, when we shift our awareness or "frequency" from self-consciousness - where fear, impossibility or feelings of separation reside - to cosmic consciousness, which is in total harmony with the universe and where none of those feelings exist, then anything is possible.

The ancient yogis discovered that the secret of cosmic consciousness is intimately linked with breath mastery. This is India's unique and deathless contribution to the world's treasury of knowledge. The life force, which is ordinarily absorbed in maintaining the heart-pump, must be freed for higher activities by a method of calming and stilling the ceaseless demands of the breath.

We can arrive at a point of view where the preservation of the individual activities is no longer inconsistent with our comprehension of the cosmic consciousness or our attainment to the transcendent and supracosmic.

.. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the 'Momentary' masters of a 'Fraction' of a 'Dot'

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.

There is perhaps no better a demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world.

Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.

In [Yogananda's] celebrated Autobiography of a Yogi, he offers a stunning account of the 'cosmic consciousness' reached on the upper levels of yogic practice, and numerous interesting perspectives on human nature from the yogic and Vedantic points of view.

The Internet has usurped the collective unconscious and access to cosmic consciousness has become difficult and almost primitive.