Pursuing Consciousness Quotes

“We confuse being some thing with Being.”
― Peter Ralston, Pursuing Consciousness: The Book of Enlightenment and Transformation

“Always be suspicious of the news you want to hear. —Francis Everitt, physicist”
― Peter Ralston, Pursuing Consciousness: The Book of Enlightenment and Transformation

“I'm inviting you to realize that we're not talking about changing from an apple to an orange, which is too easy and still in the domain of familiar things, as is simply imagining a "better self". The demand here is more like transforming from being an apple to being the color blue, or infinite space.”
― Peter Ralston, Pursuing Consciousness: The Book of Enlightenment and Transformation

“So when searching for the “absolute existence,” we need to acknowledge that our relationship to “reality” is to consider our perception of physical conditions as objective and real, and our perception of the mind’s activities as subjective and just made up.”
― Peter Ralston, Pursuing Consciousness: The Book of Enlightenment and Transformation

“Enlightenment: Some Nothing from Which to Come”
― Peter Ralston, Pursuing Consciousness: The Book of Enlightenment and Transformation

“Again, I invite you to consider that if you can identify with character traits, qualities, thinking, or experiences other than what you identify with now, then you must not actually be any of these elements. If this is so, who are you? What are you? If you try to pin down who you really are, you will search your mind and attempt to grab onto an idea, or feeling, or sense. Yet that very idea, feeling, or sense itself can be let go, and so it can't be you either. See how this works?”
― Peter Ralston, Pursuing Consciousness: The Book of Enlightenment and Transformation

“Focus on is for a moment. The nature of is still “is” even if nothing exists. If everything is destroyed, is remains. How can is go anywhere? There is nowhere to go. The nature of is is Nothing. The nature of is is absolute. If you identify with is then nothing can come or go. There is nothing that needs to be or not be.”
― Peter Ralston, Pursuing Consciousness: The Book of Enlightenment and Transformation