Consciousness Raising Quotes

“When you catch yourself slipping into a pool of negativity, notice how it derives from nothing other than resistance to the current situation.”
― Donna Quesada, Buddha in the Classroom: Zen Wisdom to Inspire Teachers

“Don’t feel bad about feeling bad. Don’t be frightened of feeling afraid. Don’t be angry about getting angry. There is no need to give up when we are feeling depressed. Nor should we be dismayed at the grief which often accompanies the outgrowing of anything which needs outgrowing. We can be glad that our soul is speaking to us and pushing us onwards. We frequently need to persevere with a period of inner turmoil before the dust can settle and be swept out the door.”
― Donna Goddard, The Love of Devotion

“Courage is often associated with aggression, but instead should be seen as a willingness to act from the heart.”
― Donna Quesada, Buddha in the Classroom: Zen Wisdom to Inspire Teachers

“Movements are most powerful when they begin to affect the vision and perspective of those who do not necessarily associate themselves with those movements.”
― Angela Y. Davis, Freedom Is a Constant Struggle

“If we become aware that someone is sending thoughts of ill will in our direction, we do not argue with the apparent reality of malice. To do so would give it more substance. We remove the personal sense of ourself and the other person.”
― Donna Goddard, The Love of Devotion

“It isn’t much use writing slogans on a wall if you plan to total the building.”
― Andrew Vachss, A Bomb Built in Hell

“A free spirit is not bound by this, that, matter, materialism or opinion. They sing, dance and flow on the wind - for they are at one with it. They are nothing and everything - void and expanse. Even space and time does not confine or define them. For they are pure energy itself.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“We may talk lightly but never carelessly. We keep at bay the flow of common, ignorant thought which runs its damaging course through the pathways of ordinary human conversation.”
― Donna Goddard, The Love of Devotion

“The transcendental state of Absolute Oneness sets the human mind free.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost

“I realized the universe had consumed my whole entity with its divine sensation of eternal bliss. All I could consciously perceive in that state of mind was absolute oneness. I felt being one with the banyan tree, under which I was sitting. I felt one with the corns in the field. I felt one with the sky and the clouds in it. As if everything was me, and I was everything. I didn’t have any perception of time or space. All that there was, was an all- pervading eternity – a state of non-dualism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost

“Thinking about what's beyond thought, is opening up your mind to tap into infinite intelligence designed to expand your consciousness.”
― Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA

“Everything we need to fulfill our true destiny always comes to us at the perfect time. But spiritual awareness is required to recognize those gifts and opportunities.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

“Neuroscience makes us connect with each other at an emotional level. It makes us make friends. It makes us dream more positively. It makes us more optimistic about ourselves and the world even in our darkest days. It makes us achieve our goal endowed with strength even through immense miseries. It allows us to attain the subjective reality of our fellow humans. Imbued with the understanding of the mind we can walk in the shoes of other people.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost

“All states of consciousness, no matter how mystical, ecstatic or divine, are gloriously born through the protoplasmic activity of the brain.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost

“How simplified human history becomes, when we view it in terms of consciousness development. The real movers and shakers of our species have all been on the same journey - the journey of consciousness development.”
― Jakeb Brock, The New Consciousness

“When we bring love and compassion to our community, it raises the consciousness for everyone.”
― Andrew Lutts, How to Live a Magnificent Life: Becoming the Living Expression of Higher Consciousness

“People plus people plus anger is how things can change.”
― Deb Caletti, A Heart in a Body in the World

“When You Shift Your Consciousness, You Shift Your Reality”
― Syed Sharukh

“The only higher dimension is the selfless dimension.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulldozer on Duty

“Underneath all that divides us, we share a common humanity. Discovery and the quest for well-being motivate all of us. We continually seek relief from the difficulties of existence, and in so doing, we change the world, hopefully for the better. My vision is that humanity will one day learn to be at peace with itself. I think that can happen only when people have their basic needs met and each is allowed to reach his or her potential.”
― Terry B. Clayton

“​I wanted to present Neuroscience to people in a way that would diminish their differences.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost

“Once the lotus of your inner divinity gets full-blown and you reach the mental state where all the religious giants of human history experienced the all-encompassing sense of godliness, the exuberance of the human mind turns infinite. Awakening into that state makes all the perceptual limitations of the mind disappear, just like a bucket of muddy water turns crystal-clear once poured into the ocean.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost

“All endeavors, heroic or monstrous, scientific or philosophical, rise from the electrochemical functioning of the mind, that takes place relentlessly in the little specks of protoplasm inside the head. These specks of jelly inside the brain, known as the neurons, determine our identity, personality and everything that we are.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost

“There is nothing like the "real" me or the "real" you because we are all more than this or that. We are infinite beings, and any definition imposed on our identity confines us to that definition and hence limits our conscious expansion.”
― Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA

“The equation is very simple, we kill = we get killed, either by infectious diseases or natural disasters. Demand and eat fake meat, because killing always seeks its bloody debt. Be Veg, eat cruelty-free, plant-based fake meat products.”
― Ema Dan, Hearty Land: A tale about a journey into a land of abundance

“We took the right to decide about life&death matters of our animal companions into our own hands, why viruses, bacteria, gems and other animals can't do the same with us? Be a Hero, Be Veg, Eat cruelty-free, plant-based meat.”
― Ema Dan, Hearty Land: A tale about a journey into a land of abundance

“Man is not an entity, he is a bridge, a bridge between two entities - the animal and the god, the unconscious and the conscious.”
― Osho, Love, Freedom, Aloneness: The Koan of Relationships

“Higher Dimension (The Sonnet)

The only higher dimension,
Is the selfless dimension.
There is no magic, no mysticism,
There is only self-annihilation.
Service makes a being divine,
Not rituals and rigidity.
A kind atheist is more divine,
Than a priest who's bigoted and greedy.
You don't rise high by worshiping,
Images, symbols and ideologies.
You rise when you fall in service,
At the feet of the helpless and needy.
Those who wanna help themselves help the world.
Those who just help themselves are plain retard.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulldozer on Duty

“The Upanishads have minutely classified every stage of spiritual advancement:

- Jivanmukta ("freed while living")

- a siddha ("perfected being") has progressed from the state of jivanmukta ("freed while living") to that of:

- a paramukta ("supremely free" - full power over death); the latter has completely escaped from the mayic thralldom and its reincarnational round. The paramukta therefore seldom returns to a physical body; if he does return, he is:

- an avatar, a divinely appointed medium of supernal blessings on the world. An avatar is unsubject to the universal economy; his pure body, visible as a light image, is free from any debt to Nature. The casual gaze may see nothing extraordinary in an avatar's form; but, on occasion, it casts no shadow nor make any footprint on the ground. These are outward symbolic proofs of an inward freedom from darkness and material bondage. [...] Krishna, Rama, Buddha and Patanjali were among the ancient Indian avatars. [...] Agastya, a South Indian avatar.

- Mahavatar (Great Avatar) - Babaji's mission in India has been to assist prophets in carrying out their special dispensations. He thus qualifies for the scriptural classification of Mahavatar (Great Avatar). [...] Babaji is ever in communion with Christ; together they send out vibrations of redemption and have planned the spiritual technique of salvation for this age. The work of these two fully illumined masters is to inspire the nations to forsake wars, race, hatreds, religious sectarianism, and the boomerang evils of materialism.[...]
Only one reason motivates Babaji in maintaining his physical form from century to century: the desire to furnish humanity wit ha concrete example of its own possibilities. Were man never vouchsafed a glumpse of Divinity in the flesh, he would remain oppressed by the heavy mayic delusion that he cannot transcend his mortality.

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pg305-310, Chapter 33, Babaji, Yogi-Christ of Modern India”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi

“What you may not know is that your soul is linked to your intuition. Both are speaking to you. They send you divine signs. Unveiling your intuition with your soft inner voice. A magnetic pull towards what is best suited for you. Even when you may not be consciously aware of it. Even if you get wrapped up in your head with analytical thinking. Even if you don’t trust your gut.”
― Dana Arcuri, Intuitive Guide: How to Trust Your Gut, Embrace Divine Signs, & Connect with Heavenly Messengers