Consciousness
When you listen to a thought, you are aware not only of the thought but also of yourself as the witness of the thought. A new dimension of consciousness has come in.
So the essence of meditation is that it creates a space, a distance between you and what you refer to as your mind...Once this little space between you and the activity of the mind, between you and the activity of the body, arises within you, now the mind is no more a mess. It is a great symphony; it is a tremendous possibility.
You cannot solve a problem from the same consciousness that created it. You must learn to see the world anew.
True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found.
There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen.
What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.
The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.
When you recognize that there is a voice in your head that pretends to be you and never stops speaking, you are awakening out of your unconscious identification with the stream of thinking. When you notice that voice, you realize that who you are is not the voice but the one who is aware of it.
The reason why somebody is free of prejudice is that his identifications are not too strong. The moment your identification is strong with something you are naturally prejudiced towards that.
A human being is a part of the whole, called by us the 'Universe', a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate 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.
This illusory sense of self is what Albert Einstein, who had deep insights not only into the reality of space and time but also into human nature, referred to as “an optical illusion of consciousness.” That illusory self then becomes the basis for all further interpretations, or rather misinterpretations of reality, all thought processes, interactions, and relationships. Your reality becomes a reflection of the original illusion.
The self that we all think we have riding around inside our heads is an illusion—and one that can disappear when examined closely. What’s more, we’re much better off psychologically when it does.
What if the brain comes from consciousness instead of consciousness coming from the brain?
Out beyond right and wrong, there is a field. I'll meet you there.
I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which all things happen. I am consciousness. I am the Now. I Am.