Sublime

consciousness — that ultimate lens of being, which shapes our entire experience of life and makes blue appear blue and gives poems their air of wonder — is not a mental activity confined to the brain but a complex embodied phenomenon governed by the nervous-system activity we call feeling.

Perhaps the most concise way to describe this emerging paradigm in science is the realization that consciousness, rather than being an accidental by-product of neurophysiological and biochemical processes in the brain, is an integral component of the universe itself.

Consciousness has no idea of “I,” of ego. It has no idea of one’s separation from existence. It does not know any barrier. It knows no boundaries—it is one with existence, it is in a deep at-onement. There is no conflict between the individual and the whole. One is simply flowing into the whole, and the whole is flowing into one. It is like breathi

I am Pure Consciousness. I can use this Consciousness in any way I desire. I can choose to be conscious of the realm of lack and limitation, or I can choose to be conscious of the realm of Infinite Oneness, Harmony, and Wholeness. It is One Infinite Consciousness viewed either negatively or positively. At all times I am one with all of life, and I

Many centuries ago Hawaiian spiritual masters came to the same conclusions reached by others in various times and places: that there is an aspect of consciousness which operates covertly and indirectly (the subconscious); that there is an aspect of consciousness which operates openly and directly (the conscious mind); and that there is an aspect of

Nothing so eludes conscious inspection as consciousness itself. This is why the root of consciousness has been called, paradoxically, the unconscious.

Consciousness is the quality or state of being aware of what is going on both outside of us and within us. It is about sentience — the ability to feel, experience or perceive subjectively. It means to be awake and alert or compos mentis (having full control of one's mind).

“To live consciously means to seek to be aware of everything that bears on our actions, purposes, values, and goals—to the best of our ability, whatever that ability may be—and to behave in accordance with that which we see and know.”