Quotes About Consciousness

The waking have one world in common. Sleepers meanwhile turn aside, each into a darkness of his own.

Thinking is common to all.

Sleeping people live in their own world; only those who are awake have a world in common.

Spiritual Awakening: The Process A slow change in the way we think, feel, and behave that is done to us, not by us.

kneeling, swaying, or sitting in a cross-legged position are believed to have evolved to prevent falling asleep. You should be comfortable and relaxed.

For the rubble of history, which is undigested and therefore goes on blindly, does not lie so thickly on the ground as in our own consciousness.

The world of immediate experience?the world in which we find ourselves living?must be comprehended, transformed, even subverted in order to become that which it really is.

All liberation depends on the consciousness of servitude and the emergence of this consciousness is always hampered by the predominance of needs and satisfactions which, to a great extent, have become the individual's own.

In infant baptism it was confessed that conversion and regeneration differ, and conversion is ordinarily a coming to consciousness of that new life which has long before been planted in the heart.

Theology has, since Kant's time, become a theology of consciousness and experience and thus loses itself in religious anthropology.

Language is the soul of a nation, the custodian of the goods and treasures of humankind, the bond that unites human beings, peoples, and generations, the one great tradition that unites in consciousness the world of humankind, which is one by nature.

Het is beter om de dingen niet te weten zonder dat je ze kent.

Life is a dream, a little more coherent than most.

As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

The objective world is, it does not happen. Only to the gaze of my consciousness, crawling along the lifeline of my body, does a section of this world come to life as a fleeting image in space which continuously changes in time.

Close your eyes and let the mind expand. Let no fear of death or darkness arrest its course. Allow the mind to merge with Mind. Let it flow out upon the great curve of consciousness. Let it soar on the wings of the great bird of duration, up to the very Circle of Eternity.

The excellence of the soul is understanding; for the man who understands is conscious, devoted, and already godlike.

O ye people, earth-born folk, ye who have given yourselves to drunkenness and sleep and ignorance of God, be sober now,cease from your surfeit, cease to be glamored by irrational sleep!

This is what you must know: that in you which sees and hears is the word of the lord, but your mind is god the father; they are not divided from one another for their union is life.

The word I was typing was always in the past while the word I was thinking of was always in the future, which left the present oddly uninhabited

I told him, for instance, how I had come to experience time differently. The word I was typing was always in the past while the word I was thinking of was always in the future, which left the present oddly uninhabited. He

It took me a while to realize the hum was only inside my head Is a waveless noise still a sound?

I had come to experience time differently. The world I was typing was always in the past while the word I was thinking of was always in the future, which left the present oddly uninhabited.