Quotes About Consciousness

As it is impossible to be outside God, the best is consciously to dwell in Him.

I am a spectator, so to speak, of the molecular whirlwind which men call individual life; I am conscious of an incessant metamorphosis, an irresistible movement of existence, which is going on within me -- and this phenomenology of myself serves as a window opened upon the mystery of the world.

I can find no words for what I feel. My consciousness is withdrawn into itself; I hear my heart beating, and my life passing. It seems to me that I have become a statue on the banks of the river of time, that I am the spectator of some mystery, and shall issue from it old, or no longer capable of age.

It is only when we are aware of the earth and of the earth as poetry that we truly live.

animals] are not brethren, they are not underlings [but beings] gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear [;] other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendid and travail of the earth

It is through ignorance of the Unconscious psyche and through the pursuit of an exclusive cult of Consciousness that our era has become so completely atheist and profane.

my vision of Him is His vision of me

It is up to each individual consciousness to develop its own symbol or symbols, its own symbolic universe.

I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately, I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, To put to rout all that was not life and not when I had come to die Discover that I had not lived.

Oh, one world at a time!

With all your science - can you tell how it is, and whence it is, that light comes into the soul?

What are the earth and all its interests beside the deep surmise which pierces and scatters them?

Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake.

If you love, you will unconsciously fulfill the whole law.

La neurociencia nos dice que es altamente improbable que tengamos alma, pues cuanto pensamos y sentimos no es ni más ni menos que el parloteo electroquímico de nuestras neuronas. Nuestro sentido de la identidad, nuestros sentimientos y pensamientos, el amor que mostramos a los demás, nuestras esperanzas y ambiciones, nuestros odios y temores, todo eso muere cuando el cerebro muere.

My 'I', my conscious self, writing these words, does not feel like electrochemistry, but that is what it is.

It has never seemed a problem to me, only a source of awe, amazement and profound surprise that my consciousness, my very sense of self which feels as free as air, which was trying to read the book but instead was watching the clouds through the high windows, the self which is now writing these words, is in fact the electrochemical chatter of one hundred billion nerve cells.

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

Everyone has his own reality in which, if one is not too cautious, timid or frightened, one swims. This is the only reality there is.

I think, what has this day brought me, and what have I given it?

Intuition is the very force or activity of the soul in its experience through whatever has been the experience of the soul itself.