States of Consciousness

“Consciousness is always Self-Consciousness.

If you are conscious of anything,
you are 
essentially conscious of yourself.”

~ Ramana Maharshi

“Consciousness is the basis of all life
 and the field of all possibilities.

Its nature is to expand and unfold its full potential.
The impulse to evolve is thus inherent in the very nature of life.”

~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts
in Eternal awareness or
Pure consciousness without objectification,
knowing without thinking,
merging finitude in infinity.
~ Voltaire

“Yoga is the cessation of mind.”
~ Patanjali, Yoga Sutras

Thought divides Universal Awareness as a prism divides light.
~ Ron Rattner, Sutra Sayings

“Human consciousness is conditioned consciousness;
it is pure Awareness conditioned by conceptions.”
~ Ron Rattner, Sutra Sayings

“A human being is a part of a whole, called by us ‘universe’, 
a part limited in time and space. 
He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest… a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. 
This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. 
Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is, in itself, a part of the liberation, and a foundation for inner security.”

~ Albert Einstein ( N. Y. Times , March 29, 1972)/h5>

“No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.”
~ Albert Einstein

States of Consciousness

Q. How can we enter higher states of consciousness?

A. All states of consciousness arise and subside in Universal Awareness. We are never in states of consciousness; they are in us.

We increasingly experience elevated consciousness of Universal Awareness, and gradually free ourselves from the optical ego illusion of separation from Nature and other life-forms, as we open our hearts, still our minds, and “widen our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty”.