Quotes About Consciousness

Be aware of the All-Pervasive Reality of Existence as It is manifesting to you now.

Yaldabaoth wants to stamp out all traces and all possibility of free, individualized human consciousness; he wants the human not to be an individual being, but only a member of a general species of pseudo-humanity -- to be a clever, earth-bound animal, a "homunculus".

If you are performing magick while asleep, you will only manifest more dreams.

Doing magick without knowing oneself is like driving a car with the emergency brake on.

The big secret is that all of humanity has created reality.

The observer is one and the mirrors are many.

Nietzsche tells us that modern consciousness is sick: "Art is reduced to mere amusement, and governed by empty concepts.

Severe trauma explodes the cohesion of consciousness.

To deal with reality you must first recognize it as such.

Der Preis der Freiheit ist ewige Achtsamkeit.

We may not be able to stop and undo the hard old wrongs of the great world outside, but through you and me no evil shall come either in the unknown where you are going, or in this imperfect and haunted dimension of awareness through which I move.

Alguien que duerme está al mismo tiempo cerca y lejos, de ti y de sí mismo, impotente y, sin embargo, poderoso precisamente por su ausencia.

Als wij geen namen zouden hebben, zou alles veel duidelijker zijn. Gewoon wat vluchtige materie met een beetje bewustzijn, verschijningen die komen en tamelijk snel weer verdwijnen. Door die namen denken we dat we heel wat zijn, we denken misschien zelfs dat ze ons beschermen, maar wie weet nog de namen van alle miljarden die verdwenen zijn?

a haze of formless, pervasive emotion, nothing she could grasp, but full of looming thoughts that appeared from nowhere, startling her, then receded into whiteness again before she was even sure what she had seen.

she'd never known. No, she admitted to herself: she'd never chosen to know.

Everything seems new. The outlines of his furniture. The sunbeams slicing across the carpet. His hands before his face.

I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we do. I feel very deeply about vegetarianism and the animal kingdom. It was my dog Boycott who led me to question the right of humans to eat other sentient beings.

We know we cannot be kind to animals until we stop exploiting them -- exploiting animals in the name of science, exploiting animals in the name of sport, exploiting animals in the name of fashion, and yes, exploiting animals in the name of food.

being around animals, I am always reminded that the only real moment in life is now.

The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else's.

Bir ÅŸeyden, onu görmezlikten gelerek deÄŸil, ancak onu yaÅŸayarak kurtulabiliriz.

when we appreciate reality, it can actually work on us.

There are many, many details of action involved in the simplicity and sharpness of being in this very moment, here, now.

A sense of knowing, or seeing, always happens. If you are willing to acknowledge its existence, there is the potential of being wakeful, open, and precisely there constantly. This is not based on being a sharp person, a smart person, or a very careful person. Rather, it is about being a person who can actually be—by yourself, very simply.