Quotes About Consciousness

I was attentive to my knife and fork, spoon, glasses, and other instruments of self-destruction...

There was no noise, no effort, no consciences in anything he did, but in everything an indescribable lightness, a seeming impossibility of doing nothing else, or doing nothing better, which was so graceful, so natural & agreeable

The words were still in his hearing as just spoken—distinctly in his hearing as ever spoken words had been in his life—when the weary passenger started to the consciousness of daylight, and found that the shadows of the night were gone.

Are not the sane and the insane equal at night as the sane lie a dreaming?

But when he recollected that, being there as an assistant, he actually seemed - no matter what unhappy train of circumstances had brought him to that pass - to be the aider and abettor of a system which filled him with honest disgust and indignation, he loathed himself, and felt, for the moment, as though the mere consciousness of his present situation must, through all time to come, prevent his raising his head again.

What evidence would you have of my reality beyond that of your senses?

man who reviews his own life, as I do mine, in going on here, from page to page, had need to have been a good man indeed, if he would be spared the sharp consciousness of many talents neglected, many opportunities wasted, many erratic and perverted feelings constantly at war within his breast, and defeating him.

He sat in the same place as the day died, looking at the dull houses opposite, and thinking, if the disembodied spirits of former inhabitants were ever conscious of them, how they must pity themselves for their old places of imprisonment.

True discipline is really just self-remembering; no forcing or fighting is necessary.

Addiction, self-sabotage, procrastination, laziness, rage, chronic fatigue, and depression are all ways that we withhold our full participation in the program of life we are offered. When the conscious mind cannot find a reason to say no, the unconscious says no in its own way.

It is the cry of the separate self, 'What about me?' As long as we keep acting from that place, it doesn't matter who wins the war against (what they see as) evil. The world will not deviate from its death-spiral.

You are a separate individual among other separate individuals in a universe that is separate from you as well.

Thus, what we observe to be happening in the world says as much about ourselves as it does about the world. It reveals what we think is important, significant, valuable, and sacred, and what is irrelevant or useless too. Put another way, what we see reveals how we see.

Without deep work on yourself, how will you avoid re-creating your own internalized oppression in all that you do?

Because we are lied to all the time, in ways so routine they are beneath conscious notice, even the most direct lies are losing their power to shock us.

As I mentioned earlier, the time to do is when you know what to do. When you don't know what to do, and act anyway, you are probably acting out of habit.

Through a million little choices every day, we are cashing in the earth.

You can not entertain weak, harmful, negative thoughts ten hours a day and expect to bring about beautiful, strong and harmonious conditions by ten minutes of strong, positive, creative thought.

Not what you think once in a while when you are in church, or have just read a good book, but your predominant mental attitude is what counts.    19.

Walker says, "Mind in itself is believed to be a subtle form of static energy, from which arises the activities called 'thought,' which is the dynamic phase of mind. Mind is static energy, thought is dynamic energy — the two phases of the same thing." Thought is therefore the vibratory force formed by converting static mind into dynamic mind.

Every thought therefore is a cause and every condition an effect; for this reason it is absolutely essential that you control your thoughts so as to bring forth only desirable conditions.

The emotions must be called upon to give feeling to the thought so it will take form

Si estábamos orando, abrir la Biblia en los Salmos y comenzar a leer. Si sentimos pesadez en los ojos y en la mente leyendo las Escrituras, cerremos la Biblia por unos minutos y alabemos conscientemente a Dios.

If there is a true universal mind, must it be sane?