Quotes About Consciousness

It was just as Trungpa Rinpoche used to say, "When your mind is big, thoughts are like mosquitoes buzzing around with nowhere to land.

I am bigger than my thoughts and emotions.

that a psychotic person is drowning in the very same things that a mystic swims in.

Even though there are so many teachings, so many meditations, so many instructions, the basic point of it all is just to learn to be extremely honest and also wholehearted about what exists in your mind—thoughts, emotions, bodily sensations, the whole thing that adds up to what we call "me" or "I." Nobody else can really begin to sort out for you what to accept and what to reject in terms of what wakes you up and what makes you fall asleep.

we can regard ourselves as already awake; we can regard our world as already sacred.

there is nobody on the planet, neither those whom we see as the oppressed nor those whom we see as the oppressor, who doesn't have what it takes to wake up.

The body, then, has a mind of its own. It must follow, then, that the Mind has a body of its own, even if it's like nothing that we can see around us, or have ever seen.

Would you consider what I call the "inner eye" which opens for some of us, though not always when we want it or expect it – would you consider the inner eye as one of the sensory nerves?

He felt marvellously conscious of the moment, of here and now, of this day.

Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms. Later, I made an inventory of the room – a naming of parts: bed, chair, table, picture, vase, cupboard, window, curtain. Curtain. And I breathed again.

He sees that time is what we live in, but that it is also what we carry within us. Time is then, but it is also our own perpetual now.

Sometimes thoughts merely pass through a man's head without mishap, but sometimes they fall out of his mouth on the way through.

Todos devemos ter percepção das nossas responsabilidades.

Peace at least. All that was dross and residue vanishes from my soul as if it had never been. I'm alone and calm. It's like the moment when I could theoretically convert to a religion. But although I'm no longer attracted to anything down here, I'm also not attracted to anything up above. I feel free, as if I'd ceased to exist and were conscious of that fact.

I'm older than Time and Space because I'm conscious.

These of us who have risen highest merely have a deeper awareness of how uncertain and empty everything is.

is reality simply a dream we share?

figuring out was is real isn't always possible, because our own brains are telling us stories

We are alive on the very brink of eternity.

Executives of necessity live and work within an organization. Unless they make conscious efforts to perceive the outside, the inside may blind them to the true reality.

Inner speech seems to be an important part of System 2 thinking.

What does it feel like to be a frog perceiving the world

People do not reconsider," Langer observes, "what they mindlessly accepted as true."14

Ansioso observaba sus propios pensamientos, siempre dispuesto a frenarlos. No quería olvidar ya nada más y repetía mentalmente los momentos recién pasados, como se repasan las palabras de una lengua extraña.