Quotes About Consciousness

From Carl Jung: "Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life, and you will call it fate." —

Christopher Bollas, writes: "There is in each of us a fundamental split between what we think we know and what we know but may never be able to think.

Somewhere, a clock ticks. Sand pours through the hourglass. I am no longer interested in the stories but rather, what is underneath the stories: the soft, pulsating thing that is true.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life, and you will call it fate.

The psychoanalyst who coined it, Christopher Bollas, writes: "There is in each of us a fundamental split between what we think we know and what we know but may never be able to think.

I know not what to call this, nor will I urge that it is a secret overruling decree, that hurries us on to be the instruments of our own destruction, even though it be before us, and that we rush upon it with our eyes open.

The antidote for mind wandering is meta-awareness, attention to attention itself, as in the ability to notice that you are not noticing what you should, and correcting your focus. Mindfulness makes this crucial attention muscle stronger.12

1. Knowing one's emotions. Self-awareness—recognizing a feeling as it happens—is the keystone of emotional intelligence. As

The neocortex allows for the subtlety and complexity of emotional life, such as the ability to have feelings about our feelings.

the ability to monitor feelings from moment to moment is crucial to psychological insight and self-understanding. An

We live in a world our minds build rather than actually perceiving the endless details of what is happening.

Whenever you notice your mind wandering," a fundamental instruction in meditation advises, "bring your mind back to its point of focus." The operative phrase here is whenever you notice. As our mind drifts off, we almost never notice the moment it launches into some other orbit on its own.

Ten muy presente que tu enfoque determina tu realidad».

An altered trait—a new characteristic that arises from a meditation practice—endures apart from meditation itself.

ser consciente de uno mismo significa «ser consciente de nuestros estados de ánimo y de los pensamientos que tenemos acerca de esos estados de ánimo».

Instead of being swept away by that stream we can pause and see that these are just thoughts - and choose whether or not to act on them.

darse cuenta de los propios sentimientos en el mismo momento en que éstos tienen lugar– constituye

There are two major streams of self-awareness: "me," which builds narratives about our past and future; and "I," which brings us into the immediate present. The "me," as we've seen, links together what we experience across time. The "I," in stark contrast, exists only in the raw experience of our immediate moment.

In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels.

humans the prefrontal cortex takes up a larger ratio of the brain's top layer, the neocortex, than in any other species, and has been the site of the major evolutionary changes that make us human. This neural zone, as we will see, holds the seeds of awakening to enduring well-being, but it is also entwined with emotional suffering. We can envision wonderful possibilities, and we also can be disturbed by worrisome

A consciência de nós mesmos e dos outros, e a sua aplicação na gestão do nosso mundo interior e das nossas relações, são a essência da inteligência emocional.

A atenção plena permite-nos quebrar o fluxo de pensamentos que poderiam, caso contrário, levar-nos a ficar prisioneiros da infelicidade, transformando a nossa relação com o próprio pensamento. Em vez de sermos arrastados por esse fluxo, conseguimos parar e ver que isto são apenas pensamentos – e escolher agir ou não de acordo com eles.

A atenção plena desenvolve a nossa capacidade para observar a nossa experiência momento a momento de uma forma imparcial e não reativa. Praticamos o abandono dos pensamentos acerca de qualquer coisa em particular e abrimos o foco àquilo que nos vier à mente no fluxo da consciência, sem nos deixarmos perder no curso de pensamentos acerca de qualquer coisa em particular.

Por ello decimos que el líder desconectado de su mundo interno carece de timón, el indiferente a los sistemas mayores en los que se mueve está perdido, y el inconsciente ante el mundo interpersonal está ciego.