“In 1850, August Salzmann photographed, near Jerusalem, the road to Beith-Lehem (as it was spelled at the time): nothing but stony ground, olive trees; but three tenses dizzy my consciousness: my present, the time of Jesus, and that of the photographer, all this under the instance of 'reality' - and no longer through the elaborations of the text, whether fictional or poetic, which itself is never credible down to the root.” RealityThreeJesusConsciousnessTreeRootsPhotographerInstancePoeticAugustJerusalemCredibleOlivesDizzyOlive Trees Author:Roland Barthes
“Some of the first human beings in whom the new consciousness emerged fully became the great teachers of humanity, such as Buddha, Lao Tzu, or Jesus, although their teachings were greatly misunderstood, especially when they turned into organized religion. They were the first manifestations of the flowering of human consciousness.” FirstsHumansHumanityJesusHuman BeingsConsciousnessTeacherTeachingManifestationOrganizedMisunderstoodGreat TeacherOrganized ReligionFloweringHuman ConsciousnessLaosLao Tzu Author:Eckhart Tolle
“Let us meditate until we perceive the Infinite Christ reigning in our own hearts. Let us learn to love those who love us not; and to forgive those who do ill against us. Let us break all our mental boundaries of color, creed, and nationality, and receive all - even our inanimate and animal brothers - in the endless, all embracing arms of our Christ Consciousness. This will be a true and fitting celebration of the coming of Jesus Christ to this earth.” HeartEarthJesusChristAnimalConsciousnessBreakColorBrotherArmsJesus ChristInfiniteForgivingIllBoundariesEndlessPerceiveCelebrationCreedsNationalityFittingChrist Consciousness Author:Paramahansa Yogananda
“At its highest, love is a religious state of consciousness. I love you too, Buddha loves, Jesus loves, but their love demands nothing in return.” StatesJesusReligiousLove IsConsciousnessLove YouReturnDemandHighestJesus LoveStates Of ConsciousnessI Love You Too Author:Rajneesh
“Jesus represents a point of common ground an esteemed rabbi to the Jew, a god to the Hindu, an enlightened one to the Buddhist, a great prophet to the Muslim. Even to the New Age guru, Jesus is the pinnacle of God-consciousness. At the same time, Jesus is the divider. None but Christians see Him as a member of the Godhead on an exclusive mission to repair the broken world.” WorldAgeChristianJesusCommonConsciousnessBrokenMembersJewMissionsBuddhistProphetEnlightenedNew AgeExclusiveGuruCommon GroundRabbiPinnacleBroken World Author:Philip Yancey
“I was like you are. I thought Jesus came and died on the cross. Jesus' being here was about his death and dying on the cross but it really was about him coming to show us how to do it. To show us the Christ-consciousness that he had and that conciousness abides in all of us. That's what I got. That's what I got.” ShowsJesusChristConsciousnessDyingLike YouCrossesDiedDeath And DyingChrist Consciousness Author:Oprah Winfrey
“So what Jesus taught must be understood from the deepest level and that is one of the best sayings to show that he was talking in that way. In the book Revelations from Christ, I found out something that Yogananda said. That Jesus had said son of men and son of God, and people often misunderstand so sometimes the translations themselves are wrong for that reason. So when he said son of man he meant his human body and personality. When he said son of God, he meant the infinite Christ consciousness with which he'd obtained oneness.” PeopleMenWayHumansSaidBookSometimesReasonShowsBodyFoundJesusChristLevelsConsciousnessTalkingTaughtSonPersonalityUnderstoodInfiniteOnenessRevelationsHuman BodyTranslationsChrist Consciousness Author:Goswami Kriyananda
“The American Dream is individualistic. Martin Luther King's dream was collective. The American Dream says, "I can engage in upward mobility and live the good life." King's dream was fundamentally Christian. His commitment to radical love had everything to do with his commitment to Jesus of Nazareth, and his dream had everything to do with community, with a "we" consciousness that included poor and working people around the world, not just black people.” PeopleWorldI CanDreamChristianJesusBlackCommunityPoorConsciousnessKingsCommitmentAround The WorldRadicalCollectivesGood LifeBlack PeopleAmerican DreamLutherMobilityIndividualisticNazarethUpward Mobility Author:Cornel West
“The word yoga is the same as the English word "yoke". So in the New Testament when Jesus Christ says, "My yoke is easy and my burden is light," my interpretation is that he's referring to yoga. It means "union" - Union of the body, mind and the spirit as one continuum of consciousness.” MindMeanSpiritJesusEasyChristConsciousnessYogaJesus ChristBurdenNew Testament Author:Deepak Chopra
“The inner world is very potent for me - I don't ascribe to any God or Jesus or Buddha - I just have a sense of it and revere it along with the natural world and human consciousness.” WorldHumansJesusNaturalConsciousnessNatural WorldInner WorldHuman Consciousness Author:Annie Lennox