Quotes About Consciousness

Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying.

Il était soûl. Donc lucide. Soûl on voit très clair en soi.

Internationalism on the other hand admits that spiritual achievements have their roots deep in national life from this national consciousness art and literature derive their character and strength and on it even many of the humanistic sciences are firmly based.

Remaining unconscious about our innate needs takes an enormous emotional and physical toll on our bodies and spirits. Not recognizing our needs for rest, intimacy, touch, good nutrition, acknowledgment, and so on—and not knowing how to get these needs met directly—prevents us from being connected with our inner guidance.

A new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move to higher levels.

I read once that the act of observing changes the nature of what is observed.

From the recesses of my brain a word floats up: synecdoche. A part that stands in for the whole. Christina's World.

We are each what never leaves us, what we never see the back of is the self. But what loves us is at the back, as Eurydice was escorting him out without his knowing.

Unless it's a specific accent, or something about physicality you have to change, I am generally not such a conscious actor.

Because she lives in a state of alarm, she notices things that others miss.

Car quelles que soient leurs "opinions", les femmes sont opprimées. Leur antiféminisme étant a) un obstacle à la prise de conscience de leurs intérêts objectifs et b) plus directement le reflet de leur oppression dans leur subjectivité est donc l'un des moyens du maintien de cette oppression.

Njeriu duhet ta krijojë vetë castin e vdekjes, nëse duam që t'ia kursejmë vetes një fund të tmerrshëm.

The ultimate goal of this book is to present fragments from an epic about an animal that evolved, started talking, started talking about the fact that it was talking, and then paused briefly before asking itself how it started talking in the first place.

any experience exists for itself, is structured, is the specific way it is, is one, and is definite.

We have rooms in ourselves. Most of them we have not visited yet. Forgotten rooms. From time to time we can find the passage. We find strange things . . . old phonographs, pictures, books . . . they belong to us, but it is the first time we have found them.

La non-action, c'est la respiration de l'action. C'est comme le silence après le bruit. C'est s'efforcer, dans bien des moments de son quotidien, de ne pas passer tout de suite à autre chose, à une autre action. Décider de prendre le temps, non pas de réfléchir mais de ressentir, de se laisser doucement envahir par le sillage de ce que l'on vient de faire, et la présence de l'instant.

She has never learnt to yawn And so she hasn't the smallest comprehension Of those who can.

La sabiduría interior de nuestro más sagrado yo nos lega la sabiduría de la pérdida y el fracaso para que nuestra conciencia se fortalezca.

We are multiple beings having a dubious experience

Noch sind wir in der tiefsten Tiefe nicht korrupt genug, um Schein und Sein, Außen und Innen unwillkürlich bei jeder Auffassung getrennt zu halten, so daß wir, wenn sich uns eine Fassade zeigt, wirklich nur eine Fassade und nicht mehr annehmen würden. Die Wahrnehmung des Menschen ist produktiv und ergänzend.

Everything that is said is said by an observer.

Perhaps a stable order can only be established on earth if man always remains accurately conscious that his condition is that of a traveller.

I live inside my head," he told himself. "So does everyone in a way. So what goes on in there, must count. It must count a lot. I shall always live in my head, wherever I go or whatever I do for the whole of my life. So why shouldn't I be at home in there?

Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear.