Quotes About Consciousness

We are all the product of our thoughts and our feelings, and the circumstances in which destiny unfolds arise because we have called them forth according to our view of the world.

We are whatever we believe ourselves to be.

Internal dialogue is the sum total of all mental and emotional activity directed at maintaining our view of the world.

The highest form of conciousness is self-conciousness

The highest form of consciousness is self consciousness

Death is an illusion, life is a dream and we are the creator of our own imagination. The present moment is the only moment available to us and is the doorway to all moments.

No matter what your spiritual condition is, no matter where you find yourself in the universe, your choice is always the same: to expand your awareness or contract it.

Inside yourself or outside, you never have to change what you see, only the way you see it.

We are equal beings and the universe is our relations with each other. The universe is made of one kind of entity: each one is alive, each determines the course of his own existence.

Perhaps many of us do not like it where we are in the Universe right now, but we can all be certain that we got where we are by our own decisions to expand in love or withdraw from it.

No hay agua en tu mente cuando contemplas un lago. Dicho de otra forma, la percepción de un objeto duro no posee en sí misma, dureza. La conciencia de la confusión no se encuentra confundida. La conciencia de la locura no está loca. La conciencia del paso del tiempo no demora tiempo alguno: no hay tiempo en ella.

If we're all living in ourselves and mistaking it for life, then we're devaluing and desensitizing life.

Heedfulness: the path to the Deathless; Heedlessness: the path to death. The heedful do not die; The heedless are as if already dead. Knowing this as a true distinction, those wise in heedfulness rejoice in heedfulness, enjoying the range of the noble ones. Dhp 21-22

And life flows on, Within you and Without you

All that we are is made up of our thoughts; it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts. If a man speak or act with a pure thought, happiness will follow him, like a shadow that never leaves him.

Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion.

raises himself above its plane of consciousness, and standing firm in his Statement of Being he allows the pendulum to swing back on the Lower Plane without changing his Polarity.

Intelligence is a moral category.

Even the loveliest dream bears like a blemish its difference from reality, the awareness that what it grants is mere illusion.

Both forms of consciousness, the one that bows before the facts and the other that mistakes itself for an overlord or creator of facts, are like the shattered halves of the truth that was not fulfilled in the world and the failure of which also affects thought. The truth cannot be patched together from its pieces.

In contrast to the Kantian, the categorical imperative of the culture industry no longer has anything in common with freedom. It proclaims: you shall conform, without instruction as to what; conform to that which exists anyway as a reflex of its power and omnipresence. The power of the culture industry's ideology is such that conformity has replaced consciousness.

there is no longer beauty or consolation except in the gaze falling on horror, withstanding it, and in unalleviated consciousness of negativity holding fast to the possibility of what is better.

The only true thoughts are those which do not grasp their own meaning

Ever since Plato, bourgeois consciousness has deceived itself that objective antinomies could be mastered by steering a middle course between them, whereas the sought-out mean always conceals the antinomy and is torn apart by it.