Quotes About Consciousness

You are absentminded when your mind is absent; when you perform actions unconsciously, without thinking. We've discussed the difference between seeing and observing—we see with our eyes, but we observe with our minds. If your mind is "absent" when performing an action, there can be no observation; more important, there can be no Original Awareness.

Alles waar je je wil en je aandacht op richt, wordt onzichtbaar, onbereikbaar, dat is tenminste mijn ervaring. Je ziet de dingen pas werkelijk uit je ooghoeken, als je eigenlijk ergens anders mee bezig bent. Het is net of de werkelijkheid zich dan gepasseerd voelt, het niet neemt en zich aan je opdringt.

How many times do you have to get hit over the head until you figure out who's hitting you.

It may behoove you to learn why you do what you do,

Cade grayed out a few times. Next thing he knew, he was back at an aid station. "We'll fix you up, Captain," a doc said through a surgical mask. "You're gonna be just fine." "You tell him, Hawkeye," another doctor said. Cade grayed out again.

It is as though a poem gave the reader as he left it a single, new word, never before spoken and impossible to actually enunciate, but self-evident as an active principle in the reader's consciousness henceforward.

Closing your eyes isn't going to change anything. Nothing's going to disappear just because you can't see what's going on. In fact, things will even be worse the next time you open your eyes. That's the kind of world we live in. Keep your eyes wide open. Only a coward closes his eyes. Closing your eyes and plugging up your ears won't make time stand still.

Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.

We live not in the world outside, but in a world inside ourselves.

The Muslim way of speaking" is speaking in all instances with the use of one's conscience, in the knowledge that Allah is present, that His knowledge is all-encompassing, and that, on the Day of Judgment, all will be called to account in His presence.

I wanted to write literature that pushed people into their lives rather than helping people escape from them.

He who knows others is wise; He who knows himself is enlightened. TAO TE CHING (600 B.C.E.)

You can only apprehend the infinite by entering into a state in which you are finite self no longer.

A conscious partnership is a relationship that fosters maximum psychological and spiritual growth; it's a relationship created by becoming conscious and cooperating with the fundamental drives of the unconscious mind: to be safe, to be healed, and to be whole.

Pimpin dan kendalikanlah jiwa dengan baik, karena amat liarnya, dan beri ingatlah, karena dia lekas lupa.

Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?

Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

It seems like everything that we see perceived in the brain before we actually use our own eyes, that everything we see is coming through computers or machines and then is being input in our brain cells. So that really worries me.

To a soul which is wide awake, the Judgment Day does not come after death. For that soul every day is a Judgment Day. The Judgment Day is every day, and one realizes this as one's sight becomes more keen. Every hour, every moment in life has its judgment.

To the question, 'What is God?' and 'What is man?' the answer is that the soul, conscious of its limited existence, is 'man', and the soul reflected by the vision of the unlimited, is 'God'. In plain words man's self-consciousness is man, and man's consciousness of his highest ideal is God.

It is living in sensation that makes man material, and after some time he becomes ignorant of the spirit.

The secret of mysticism, therefore, is to feel, think, speak, and act at the same time, for then all that is said, or felt, or done, becomes perfect.

For those on the spiritual path, thinkers, students and meditative souls, it is of the greatest importance to know the condition of their spirit from time to time by consulting their voice. That is their barometer.