“The way to freedom is through service to others. The way to happiness is through meditation and being in tune with God... break the barriers of your ego, shed selfishness, free yourself from the consciousness of the body, forget yourself, do away with this prison house of incarnations, melt your heart in all, be one with creation.” WayHeartBodyHouseForgetConsciousnessBreakMeditationCreationEgoPrisonSelfishnessTunesBarriersShedIncarnationService To OthersForget YouFree Yourself Author:Paramahansa Yogananda
“In Buddhism, we say reincarnation is the conscious taking of rebirth by a Bodhisattva, or by a high being, whereas rebirth, is what most people do. Rebirth is an involuntary process where they seek traction by finding a new body after their subtle mind loses the old one. There are two things commonly said about this. One- there is no evidence for it and two- if there is evidence, what's the mechanism which carries the consciousness from one life to another.” PeopleIfsMindSaidTwoBodyProcessLosesConsciousnessBuddhismFindingsConsciousEvidenceTwo ThingsSubtleCarrieMechanismReincarnationRebirthInvoluntaryBodhisattvaTraction Author:Robert Thurman
“I believe consciousness is non-local and a big part of what we experience with near death and past lives. It's the consciousness that has come into us from other experiences and our consciousness that we remain aware of when we leave our bodies and they communicate with us through dreams, and even through drawings which I do a lot of work with myself.” BelieveDreamBodyBigsPastI BelieveConsciousnessCommunicateDrawingLocalsPast LifeNear Death Author:Bernie Siegel
“What happens in our consciousness and minds and bodies is also happening on earth. The more we pollute the earth, for example, the sicker we are.” MindBodyHappensEarthConsciousnessExampleHappeningsMind And Body Author:Eyvind Kang
“Isn't this the perfect image of the noblest selflessness, and thereby presents an example and a model? It should be inspiring: like them, we are the units of a great social body, like them, we can serve and contemplate death with equanimity, subordinating our individual consciousness to collective consciousness.” ShouldBodyIndividualSocialPerfectConsciousnessSacrificeExampleModelsCollectivesContemplatingUnitsSelflessnessEquanimityCollective Consciousness Author:Leo Errera
“What is required is faith. Man has body, life and mind but that is not all that constitutes man. He has risen to the mind as a result of evolution. Now a higher consciousness will be evolved - this I call Supermind. It is the instrument of the Divine Consciousness, the Truth-Consciousness.” MenMindBodyResultsConsciousnessDivineEvolutionHigherInstrumentsRisenHigher ConsciousnessHe Has Risen Author:Sri Aurobindo
“Those who have advanced rise to the mind which is in the head, - they have the play of their mental movements in the head itself. But all these are inside the body; man is, as it were, shut up in a box, his entire consciousness is confined within the organism. This imprisonment has to be undone.” MenMindPlayBodyConsciousnessMovementBoxesShut UpOrganismsConfinedUndoneImprisonment Author:Sri Aurobindo
“One can see light above the head; that indicates a consciousness outside the body. But that itself is not the Truth-Consciousness or Vijnana. But much light descending from there illumines this consciousness.” BodyLightConsciousnessDescending Author:Sri Aurobindo
“On the deepest level, what I know for sure is that who I am, essentially, is consciousness and consciousness is timeless and it transcends the body; it transcends the psychological "me," the egoic self. Everybody can know themselves as consciousness.” KnowsSelfBodyLevelsConsciousnessWho I AmPsychologicalTimeless Author:Eckhart Tolle
“Your physical capabilities have nothing to do with higher consciousness. The depth achieved in any posture only has the ability to hurt or help your body.” HelpingBodyHurtAbilityConsciousnessHigherDepthYour BodyCapabilityPostureHigher Consciousness Author:Bryan Kest
“As you begin to feel this enormous shift of consciousness, called multisensory perception, emerging in your awareness, you begin to reorient yourself. It's a reorientation that occurs toward yourself as more than a mind and a body; it's a reorientation that occurs toward others; toward your life as meaningful, rather than predetermined. It's a reorientation that occurs toward the universe as alive, wise and compassionate, instead of inert (which means dead) and random.” FeelsMindMeanBodyUniverseConsciousnessWiseAliveAwarenessPerceptionMeaningfulEnormousCompassionateEmergingPredetermined Author:Gary Zukav
“Death is nothing other than a different way of being with an enhanced and broadened consciousness, which is everywhere at once because it is no longer tied to a body.” WayDifferentBodyConsciousnessDifferent WaysTied Author:Pim van Lommel
“One can imagine a time when men who still inhabit organic bodies are regarded with pity by those who have passed on to an infinitely richer mode of existence, capable of throwing their consciousness or sphere of attention instantaneously to any point on land, sea, or sky where there is a suitable sensing organ. In adolescence we leave childhood behind; one day there may be a second and more portentous adolescence, when we bid farewell to the flesh.” MenMayStillsBodyBehindsExistenceAttentionConsciousnessImagineSeaSkyLandChildhoodOne DayCapableFleshPityThrowingSpheresOrgansAdolescenceFarewellSuitableSensing Book:Profiles Of The Future Source: Profiles Of The Future
“One of the things I love so much about Valerie [Belin] is that she inhabits her body so completely. She has no self-consciousness about having stretch marks or having given birth. It's just so amazing that she has nothing to hide. Whereas all these other women see every little - supposed - imperfection - anything irregular is seen as an imperfection.” LittlesSelfBodyGivenConsciousnessBirthMarkImperfectionSelf ConsciousnessThings I LoveStretch Marks Author:Nan Goldin
“My tumour is a benign pituitary tumour, in the pituitary gland - which is the main hormone centre of the body. It's in the centre of the brain. (Fun fact, [Rene] Descartes thought our consciousness was to be found in the pituitary gland.) And the thing is, there aren't really many symptoms that show until it's too late.” FactsShowsBodyFoundFunBrainConsciousnessLateToo LateCentreSymptomsHormonesBenignGlands Author:John Newman
“Growing up in Asia in a particular time period - the '50s and '60s - I attended a Catholic missionary school where I was taught by nuns and where consciousness of the body was repressed. Yet at the same time, the female body was a highly visible and sensitive site.” BodySchoolConsciousnessGrowing UpGrowingTaughtParticularPeriodsFemaleCatholicSensitiveVisibleMissionarySiteAsiaNunRepressedFemale BodyTime Periods Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim
“The consciousness of one's physical self had to be repressed because, socially, the female body was so visible, an ongoing provocation and incitement of specular curiosity and fascination.” SelfBodyConsciousnessFemaleCuriosityVisibleOngoingFascinationRepressedProvocationFemale BodyIncitement Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim
“'Who am I?' The answer is 'I am God'. The body comes and goes, but the Atma is permanent. The body has birth and death, but the spirit does not have any of these. You reach the stage where you say, 'I am God', but even there, there is duality, 'God and I'. That is not the full Truth. When we breathe, the breath makes the sound of 'So-Hum', 'He am I'. There is still the body consciousness, the 'I'. But in deep sleep, the declaration of 'He' and 'I' falls away and only '0' and 'M' remain, 'Om'; there is only the One.” DoeStillsBodySpiritFallSoundSleepAnswersConsciousnessStageBirthBreathsBreathePermanentDeclarationComes And GoesDualityBirth And DeathDeep Sleep Author:Sathya Sai Baba
“You are still in 100% body consciousness. Do not stay with this body consciousness. Remove that. What will remain will be Atma-consciousness. Then there will be no anger, no hatred, no envy, no jealousy, no hunger, no desire . . . only complete Ananda . . . only bliss, bliss, bliss!” StillsBodyDesireConsciousnessConsciousHungerEnvyBlissRemoveNo Anger Author:Sathya Sai Baba
“The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.” MindBodyBeliefConsciousnessAcceptingTestsResponseIntuition Book:Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)
“When a woman puts on a heel, she has a different posture, a different attitude. She really stands up and has a consciousness of her body.” DifferentBodyConsciousnessAttitudeHeelsPostureDifferent Attitude Author:Christian Louboutin
“The human being is flesh and consciousness, body and soul; his heart is an abyss which can only be filled by that which is godly.” HumansHeartSoulBodyHuman BeingsConsciousnessFilledFleshAbyssGodly Author:Olivier Messiaen
“You know, the truth is that us actors would all like to believe we re-invent the wheel, every time we play a character. But, we're human beings and our instruments are not violins, they are our bodies and our consciousness and our collective life experience.” KnowsBelieveHumansPlayCharacterBodyActorsHuman BeingsConsciousnessTruth IsInstrumentsWheelsCollectivesLife ExperienceViolin Author:John C. Reilly
“The mental body, like the astral, varies much in different people; it is composed of coarser or of finer matter, according to the needs of the more or less unfolded consciousness connected with it. In the educated it is active and well-defined; in the undeveloped it is cloudy and inchoate.” PeopleNeedsWellsDifferentMatterBodyConsciousnessConnectedActiveEducatedDefinedDifferent PeoplesVaryCloudy Author:Annie Besant
“At every moment you choose yourself. But do you choose *your* self? Body and soul contain a thousand possibilities out of which you can build many I's. But in one of them is there a congruence of the elector and the elected. Only one--which you will never find until you have excluded all those superficial and fleeting possibilities of being and doing with which you toy, out of curiosity or wonder or greed, and which hinder you from casting anchor in the experience of the mystery of life, and the consciousness of the talent entrusted to you which is your *I*.” SoulSelfMomentsBodyConsciousnessWonderMysteryTalentPossibilityThousandCuriosityGreedYou ChooseToysSuperficialFleetingCastingAnchorsHinderExcludedMystery Of LifeCongruence Author:Dag Hammarskjold
“The natural inclination of a child is to take pleasure in the use of the mind no less than of the body. The child's primary business is learning. It is also the primary entertainment. To retain that orientation into adulthood, so that consciousness is not a burden but a joy, is the mark of the successfully developed human being.” MindHumansChildrenUseBodyJoyNaturalHuman BeingsPleasureConsciousnessMarkEntertainmentBurdenPrimariesAdulthoodInclinationOrientation Author:Nathaniel Branden