Quotes About Consciousness

Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn't know you knew.

the forces of nature are unconscious and involuntary; no decisions are made, so to comprehend humanity as a geological force we need to consider its distinctive quality, its volitional element. Humankind is perhaps better described not as a geological force but as a geological power, because we have to consider its ability to make decisions as well as its ability to transform matter. Unlike forces of nature, it is a power that can be withheld as well as exercised.

The essence of a class system is not that the privileged are conscious of their privileges, but that the deprived are conscious of their deprivation. Deprived I never felt.

history is the story of liberty becoming conscious of itself.

Peacock in real life undid Shelley's vegetarianism by waving a steak under his nose when he fainted,

You will take with you the satisfaction that proceeds from the consciousness of duty faithfully performed; and I earnestly pray that a Merciful God will extend to you His blessing and protection. —ROBERT E. LEE IN HIS FAREWELL ADDRESS TO THE ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA

A hand shifts our birdcages around. Some are brought closer. Some move apart. Do not try to reason it out. Be conscious of who draws you and who not.

Beyond our ideas of right-doing and wrong-doing, there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about. Ideas, language, even the phrase 'each other' doesn't make sense any more.

Live in the moment!

Desde hace algún tiempo, mis ojos siempre dan la impresión de saber algo que yo no sé.

The human mind, or spirit, extends outside the human body and interacts with the outside material world.

Anna O. had a third state as well, which today would be called a hidden observer, internal self helper, or center. This was an entity described as follows: "A clear-sighted and calm observer up sat, as she put it, in a corner of her brain and looked on at all the mad business" [p. 101].

de que o objetivo do ambientalismo não tem a ver com tentar usar menos, mas antes com tentar ser mais. Não tem a ver com beneficiarmos de menos coisas, mas antes com darmos aquilo que de melhor há dentro de nós. O ambientalismo não tem a ver com o ambiente. Tem a ver com as pessoas. Tem a ver com o sonho de uma vida melhor para as pessoas.

Our spiritual evolution depends heavily upon our recovery from our worst addiction—our addiction to the victim archetype, which traps us in the past and saps our life energy. The inner child represents nothing but a metaphor for our woundedness and a cutesy form of victim consciousness.

We're not taught to look at what is going on and say, 'Look what I have created in my life. Isn't that interesting?' Instead, we are taught to judge, lay blame, accuse, play victim, and seek revenge. Neither are we taught to think that our lives are directed by forces other than our own conscious mind—but, in truth, they are.

Through relationship we grow and learn. Through relationship we heal and are returned to wholeness and truth. We need others to mirror our misperceptions and our projections and to help us bring repressed material to consciousness for healing.

O pensamento é uma qualidade própria da alma, que a si mesma se multiplica

Com os olhos abertos, repartimos o mesmo mundo; com os olhos fechados cada um de nós penetra o seu próprio mundo.

For when is death not within ourselves?… Living and dead are the same, and so are awake and asleep, young and old.

The waking have one world in common; sleepers have each a private world of his own.

Men forget where the way leads and what they meet with every day seems strange to them.We should not act and speak like men asleep.

Other men are unaware of what they do when they are awake just as they are forgetful of what they do when they are asleep.

It is not appropriate to act and speak like men asleep.

One ought not to act and speak like people asleep.