Quotes by Ilchi Lee

If somebody asks me what enlightenment is, I say that it is simply recovering conscience.

What is missing in our economic system is a central value that can encompass everything that can be transacted and used to assign the proper relative value to everything.

Relatively speaking, science can provide reliable standards to verify truth in a physical, material sense, but values are not its strength. What one generation takes to be true is debunked and made obsolete by new discoveries.

If we see our relationship to this planet in a wide perspective, one thing is clear: we belong to this planet, not the other way around.

Rather than the kind of change that takes what we already have and augments it, like power to our cars and speed to our computers, I believe the kind of change we need now is a change of direction.

Breathing well means breathing more slowly and deeply. Relax, feel your breathing, and breathe comfortably. Once aware, it naturally becomes deeper and slower.

By becoming aware of how you eat your eating will become a rich experience blessed with tasteful flavor, joyful texture, a deep sense of gratitude, and pleasurable contentment.

While sleeping, we’re free to be what we really are, nothing more, nothing less.

Before you sleep, experience yourself as what you really are by recognizing the vast space inside you, and feeling the Energy-Consciousness, LifeParticles, overflowing through the space and through your body.

There is much work to be done, and we are the ones privileged to do it.

We did not - and could not - purchase Earth with money. We have just been granted temporary stewardship.

We are currently too attached to our worldly toys, rather than to the lessons our playing could impart to further the maturity of our collective soul.

Before we ask the cosmos for the power to have all our thoughts manifest, we need to train ourselves to become more aware, or mindful, of our thoughts, and think wisely enough to use this power for the benefit of all.

Given that you desire to change things in your life much bigger than particles, how long do you maintain your observation and how much mental power do you invest in observing those things?

Consciousness is part of our nature as sentient beings, but doesn’t mean we are aware at a particular moment. By perceiving our consciousness - becoming conscious of consciousness, we become aware.

You know what awareness is only when you are aware. Awareness is the perception of your presence in the now.

Awareness, when managed and directed, becomes attention. By turning into attention, awareness becomes localized, and attains a focal point. Because of this feature, attention has the power to direct energy.

Attention has its most powerful expression in purposeful action.

Thoughts become things? True, but that analysis is not complete - we need to add two more words: thoughts become things through energy.

Who am I? What is the purpose of my life? These questions arise spontaneously throughout our lives, either unbidden or through conscious intent. Anyone who wishes to live an authentic life must answer these questions, regardless of whether they believe in the existence of the soul or practice a religion. If these queries remain unanswered, life will more than likely remain superficial and empty, in spite of any material abundance. If you wish to make the souls journey, then I suggest you ask yourself these questions relentlessly and ruthlessly, and listen carefully.