If we are in a high enough state of consciousness we see that life is only a passing dream.
I explored alternate states of consciousness at one period of my life through psychedelics, as was the fashion with all my friends.
Awareness is wakefulness. Wakefulness is consciousness. Consciousness is limitless awareness.
Consciousness is the screen. The images on the screen are your perceptions, the illusion that life is solid, that there is a material universe.
Samadhi is perfect absorption to the point where there is no sense of being absorbed, not the consciousness of knowing that you are having an experience.
When matter stops, self-consciousness stops.
When self-consciousness stops, there is nothing -nothing left to stop, start, begin or end.
Salvakalpa samadhi is a tremendous acceptance and liberation, but it is not complete absorption in nirvana, in that consciousness.
The teacher is transmitting pure awareness and consciousness.
Beyond learning and unlearning is awareness, and beyond awareness is consciousness, and beyond consciousness is immortality, and beyond immortality is dharma and beyond dharma is nirvana.
Before perception, before a preceiver, existence was - is. This is the consciousness that we refer to as nirvana, God, eternity.
Yoga is a science. It is the science of consciousness. Yoga suggests that there is more, other realms, other dimensions, and nirvana - the central nexus where all this comes from.
Observe your actions but be so busy that you never contemplate their possible effects. It is only this consciousness that leads to liberation. Everything else is illusion.
Don't become a slave to success or failure, family, friends, possessions. If these things come to you in life, enjoy them, but fix your consciousness on that which does not change.
As the meditation evolves, you attention passes into higher realms of consciousness.
In the yoga of love we learn to love consciousness. Consciousness is existence. It is the very stuff of which life is composed.
Merge your consciousness with that of a luminous being ... and then from there to eternity.
If you were in a perfected state of consciousness, you would only see perfection in all things.
Water is the symbol of pure consciousness.
The planes of consciousness are correlated to what we call the chakras, which are located along the shushumna.
