Philosophy Quotes

"The business of theology is not to supply ready-made answers to every human problem, but to give us the principles with which an answer can be worked out."

"Consciousness is the only reality. Everything else is a modification of consciousness."

"You are not in the world; the world is in you."

"The observer and the observed are one."

"All experience is a dream appearing in consciousness."

"Enlightenment is not becoming something different; it is seeing what you are."

"The sense of self is the root of all experience."

"The universe is conscious; you are that consciousness."

"Being precedes all becoming."

"The separate self is an illusion created by thought."

"Consciousness is prior to experience."

"Reality is non-dual; separation is illusion."

"Consciousness is the ground of all being."

"Being is prior to doing."

"We are dying from civilization and all its discontents."

"The contemplative life is not an escape from the world, but a way to understand it more deeply."

"The deepest desires of the human heart cannot be satisfied by material possessions."

"The contemplative life is the foundation of the active life."

"The contemplative person sees God in all things."

"We become what we contemplate; contemplate what is good."

"We are architects of eternity through the choices we make today."

"Until you know the both/and of reality, you will always be judgmental."

"Contemplation is just a long, loving look at reality."

"We must learn to live in the tension of paradox."

"You cannot serve both your ego and the Divine simultaneously."

"We are all just trying to make sense of a senseless world."

"The spiritual path is simply the journey of living our lives as consciously as possible."

"The feeling of 'I' that we have is not as solid as we think it is."

"The mind will always try to turn spirituality into another project."

"Enlightenment has nothing to do with accumulation."