Top 50 Joseph P. Kauffman Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “You are not limited to this body, to this mind, or to this reality – you are a limitless ocean of Consciousness, imbued with infinite potential. You are existence itself.”

— Joseph P. Kauffman

2. “Our beliefs shape how we perceive reality to be, and the belief that shapes our current perception of reality was adopted by the worldview of Newtonian physics, which asserts that reality is objective – that there is a material universe existing outside of our experience. But this isn’t true; there is no material universe outside of you; the Universe takes form through you.”

— Joseph P. Kauffman

3. “When we live a positive life, one that benefits our health, our self, our environment, and the people around us, we are setting in motion a great momentum of good karma.”

— Joseph P. Kauffman

4. “This witnessing consciousness, this formless dimension of yourself, is the awareness in which your experience happens, yet it remains untouched by this experience at all times. It is similar to the background of white on which you are reading these words. This white background allows any and every word to exist within it, yet it is not confined to any of these words. Similarly, your awareness allows any and every form to exist within it, but it is not bound to any of these forms.”

— Joseph P. Kauffman

5. “Much of our suffering is caused by our false perceptions and attachment to mental images. We assume things to be true without really knowing whether they are true or not, then create a world of hurt for ourselves and others.”

— Joseph P. Kauffman

6. “It isn’t until we begin to observe our minds that we notice just how prevalent thoughts are in our experience.”

— Joseph P. Kauffman

7. “The consciousness inhabiting your body is exactly the same as the consciousness inhabiting my body. We are one. The delusion that we are separate beings comes from identifying with the world of form – with our names, our bodies, our roles, our beliefs, our thoughts, and all of the mental constructs that we have created; but even these are more connected to the universe than we realize.”

— Joseph P. Kauffman

8. “You do not have an existence independent of your environment, but rather you are your environment, and your environment is you.”

— Joseph P. Kauffman

9. “Everything exists as information in a field of infinite possibilities, and it is our Consciousness that renders the information and causes it to appear as the material world.”

— Joseph P. Kauffman

10. “All of Nature follows perfectly geometric laws. The Ancient Egyptian, Greek, Peruvian, Mayan, and Chinese cultures were well aware of this, as Phi – known as the Golden Ratio or Golden Mean – was used in the constructions of their sculptures and architecture.”

— Joseph P. Kauffman

11. “God is the ultimate ground of Being, and this ultimate ground of Being is YOU. For one who realizes their true nature as God, as Consciousness, life becomes a joy without end.”

— Joseph P. Kauffman

12. “You cannot measure love. It originates within us and it is infinite.”

— Joseph P. Kauffman

13. “Your true being, as Consciousness, is ever at peace, ever at rest, eternally existing in the dimension of here and now. It is the formless and eternal quality within you that expresses itself through the world of form.”

— Joseph P. Kauffman

14. “Our perception of reality is not reality itself, but it is the lens through which we view reality. It is like looking outside through a stained-glass window – if we look through red glass, the outside world will appear to be red; if we look through blue glass, the outside world will appear to be blue. The outside world isn’t changing, we are just observing it through different colors of glass, which make it appear to have the same color as whatever color glass that we look through.”

— Joseph P. Kauffman

15. “We spend so much of our time lost in thought, trying to label everything as isolated objects and events. Though we fail to realize that our thoughts are incapable of defining anything in its totality. We can think about a situation for as long as we want to, but our thoughts will never know the situation exactly as it exists.”

— Joseph P. Kauffman

16. “True Love is when you are able to see yourself in another, when you recognize that there is no separation between you and any other Being in the Universe.”

— Joseph P. Kauffman

17. “If your consciousness is without form, without quality, and without characteristics of any kind, would that not imply that the consciousness in every other being is also formless? And if they are all without form, how can you distinguish their consciousness from your own? What forms would you use to compare them? Isn’t the observing you exactly the same as the observing them?”

— Joseph P. Kauffman

18. “It is actually not the objective circumstances that determine whether an event is traumatic, it is our interpretation, our subjective emotional experience of the event.”

— Joseph P. Kauffman

19. “Every being experiences themselves as the center of their experience. Consciousness is what lies at our very core, and connects us all to each other. We may appear to be separate and individual because of the various forms our Consciousness inhabits, but below the surface the substance of our being is one and the same.”

— Joseph P. Kauffman

20. “To remove our beliefs is to open ourselves up to the possibility that everything we know about reality is untrue.”

— Joseph P. Kauffman

21. “We are only able to disrespect, mistreat, and harm one another when we forget that the other person is us; when we only see the objects of form, and not the subjective Consciousness that lies within. Lust, greed, violence, selfishness – all arise from perceiving others in terms of their individual differences, seeing them only as bodies, and what we can get from them as bodies, rather than acknowledging the Being that lies within the body.”

— Joseph P. Kauffman

22. “Plants do not grow all by themselves; they are pulled by the sunlight, the soil and all of the other factors required for their development. A sailboat does not sail; the wind moves the sail. All things are influenced by something else, as all people are acted upon by other things. Our behavior is generated by the many interacting variables that we encounter; there is no one thing that influences human behavior.”

— Joseph P. Kauffman

23. “We fail to see the oneness of all things, and because of this, we unknowingly cause a lot of harm to ourselves. We pollute the Earth that we live on, cut down the trees that produce our oxygen, destroy the ecosystems of nature and the animals that maintain them, and we mistreat and harm each other, thinking that these destructive actions will not have a direct effect on us.”

— Joseph P. Kauffman

24. “The human body possesses an enormous, astonishing, and persistent capacity to heal itself. Disease generally occurs when we abuse our bodies or deprive them of basic requirements to keep us healthy over extended periods. If we are constantly putting food in our bodies that is not nutritious, while also not consuming any nutritious foods, we will develop disease and illness in our body. When we supply our bodies with the proper nutrients, they will not develop disease in the first place.”

— Joseph P. Kauffman

25. “When we are not awake to reality, we are living in the dream of the mind. When we are in the dream state, we do not know what we are doing, and are unaware of what is happening within and around us. We are simply acting out of deep programming, behaving according to conditioned patterns, living as if on auto-pilot.”

— Joseph P. Kauffman

26. “You cannot be aware of yourself, for you are awareness itself. How can a witness witness itself? That is like trying to see your own eyes without a reflection, or cut a knife with the tip of its own blade – it is impossible. The subject can only observe the object; it cannot make an object out of itself. But by the very act of observing, you indirectly know yourself as the observer, as the subject. No witnessing of the witness is needed to prove its existence.”

— Joseph P. Kauffman

27. “Our perception is our window to the world, and we need to wipe the dust off of our window often so we can continue to see through it clearly.”

— Joseph P. Kauffman

28. “When you supply yourself with the proper vitamins and minerals, you enable the body to heal itself.”

— Joseph P. Kauffman

29. “You are not a small and unimportant creature confined to the form of this physical body, contrary to popular belief. At the core of your being you are pure awareness, and this awareness is the same source from which everything in the Universe arises, exists as, and returns to. Consciousness is the dimension of yourself that you have forgotten you are, and of which you long to return to.”

— Joseph P. Kauffman

30. “Have you ever had a dream that you were certain was real, only to wake up and realize that everyone and everything in the dream was really you? Well this is how many mystics describe the nature of our reality, as a dream in which we think we are individual personalities existing in the physical universe. But eventually, like in all dreams, we will wake up. Except in this dream we do not wake up to realize we are still in the world, we awake from the world to realize that we are God.”

— Joseph P. Kauffman

31. “The ego is not who we are, it is who we think we are. When we think of our name, our image, our history, and our life experiences as who we are, we become associated with an idea of ourselves, a mental image that is not at all who we are in reality.”

— Joseph P. Kauffman

32. “If we can understand that all thought is based on memory, that it is conditioned by the past, then we can see that it is of no use in helping us understand the true reality of the present moment, for every thought we have about reality will only distort reality according to our conditioned way of thinking.”

— Joseph P. Kauffman

33. “Until we heal the root cause of our suffering, and awaken to our true nature, our inherent confusion will continue to manifest itself in the world around us.”

— Joseph P. Kauffman

34. “According to Zen Buddhists, all things have their existence in The Void. The Void is that which is no-thing, but contains all things within it, or as some Christian mystics state, “God is Nothing; He is Utterly Other; He is the VOID.”

— Joseph P. Kauffman

35. “If we stop completely, not just outwardly, but inwardly, we will see that there is no truth to our self-image; it is completely mind-made.”

— Joseph P. Kauffman

36. “By embracing our negative habits with love, we can move humanity in the direction of peace.”

— Joseph P. Kauffman

37. “When I think about something that is happening in the moment, I am introducing my accumulation of the past into the immediate experience of the present. I am evaluating the situation based on my conditioned perspective, and projecting my internal workings onto the unconditioned reality of the present moment.”

— Joseph P. Kauffman

38. “Buddhist philosophy points out that the true nature of all forms is essentially formless. Forms do not have an existence of their own, but rather they arise together, and are mutually dependent on one another. Everything in the world of form is constantly changing, constantly dying, and constantly being reborn – which is why Buddhists say that there is no-self; no form that has an existence in and of itself.”

— Joseph P. Kauffman

39. “By ignoring our health and consuming unhealthy products, we are unknowingly contributing to the genetic mutation of the human species.”

— Joseph P. Kauffman

40. “The greatest threat to our planet is the idea that someone else will save it. Once the majority of individuals have become aware of themselves and the effect that they have on the world, humanity as a whole will, without a doubt, become a conscious collective.”

— Joseph P. Kauffman

41. “The pharmaceutical drug industry is a half-trillion dollar per year global industry, with almost 300 billion dollars in the United States alone. The pharmaceutical companies and their shareholders rely on people to be sick, or else their stocks will plummet. There is no money to be made in health.”

— Joseph P. Kauffman

42. “The modern scientist attempts to step outside of himself in order to observe himself, an attempt that is always doomed to failure. You cannot make an object out of your subjective experience, but you know that consciousness exists, simply because you exist.”

— Joseph P. Kauffman

43. “We often try to force the experience we want to have, instead of allowing the experience we were meant to have, and in doing this, we miss out on gaining any new insight or understanding.”

— Joseph P. Kauffman

44. “To know the reality of the present moment as it is, we have to go beyond thought, otherwise we live only in memories of the past and fantasies of the future, cut off from the direct experience of the radiance and beauty of life.”

— Joseph P. Kauffman

45. “The elite have shaped our vision of reality. We now live by the ideas and beliefs that they have created for us. To really change our situation we are going to have to change our values and our lifestyles. We need to live in harmony with nature rather than working against it. We need to start providing for ourselves so we can take the power out of the hands of corporations.”

— Joseph P. Kauffman

46. “The psychological suffering of human beings on such a mass scale manifests as the physical suffering we see and experience in the world today. It is ignorant to objectify this suffering as if it were something outside of us, belonging only to the world and to those unfortunate beings who experience it. It is within each one of us, and to acknowledge our suffering is the only way to start to heal it, and by healing the suffering within ourselves, we help to heal the suffering of the world.”

— Joseph P. Kauffman

47. “Everything we perceive to be solid and static is made up of almost entirely empty space.”

— Joseph P. Kauffman

48. “You are just as connected to the Universe as a finger is to a hand, or as a branch is to a tree. The entire cosmos is expressing itself through your being.”

— Joseph P. Kauffman

49. “Rather than focusing on our future, we should do our best to improve our lives now, in the present moment.”

— Joseph P. Kauffman

50. “When we see one another as different aspects of ourselves – as ourselves experiencing a different situation and circumstance – we develop a love, a connection, and a unity that allows us to see beyond the various forms, as well as the various ways that someone may act out when they have forgotten their connection and their formless nature. If you look at another in this light, you will see a Being that is just like you, looking back at you.”

— Joseph P. Kauffman