Quotes About Consciousness

If our brains were simple enough for us to understand them, we'd be so simple that we couldn't.

Human beings, on the other hand, are symbolic creatures. Inside their heads they break down the outside world into a mass of mental symbols, then recombine those symbols to recreate that world. What they subsequently react to is often the mental construct, rather than the primary experiences themselves.

When I wake, a piece of sharp green glass on the floor is cutting into my hand and I know it's a sign. I etch a letter on my hand; put it on top so I can see the jagged edges bleeding out; S. S is for sorrow, for all I don't say. S is for sick now, my punishing ways.

From time to time ponder whether you are unconsciously saying: 'Truth is what I happen to be thinking at this moment.

Knowledge is not gained, it is there all the time. It is the "veils" which have to be dissolved in the mind.

Saying of the Prophet The Tongue A man slips with his tongue more than with his feet.

One of the great Sufis said: 'A saint is a saint unless he knows that he is one.

When humility is exercised, people begin to realise that they do not, as it were, exist at all.

Sufis aim to refine human consciousness. This is Sufi mysticism: not mystification or magic, but a specific Path.

Man thinks many things. He thinks he is One. He is usually several. Until he becomes One, he cannot have a fair idea of what he is at all.

People think that they think things, and they also think that they know things. They could usefully give some attention to the question of whether they know what they think and know what they think they know.

Mediation - Before you learn how to meditate, you must unlearn what you think meditation might be.

The more wakeful a man is to the things which surround him, the more asleep is he, and his waking is worse than his sleep.

The automatism of man is overcome, in the words of Dhun'Nun, by aiming for 'being as you were, where you were, before you were'.

Assume that you are part-hypocrite and part heedless, and you will not be far wrong.

Study institutions may become visible when the head is more emptied of imaginings.

P: ¿Cuál es el error fundamental del hombre? R: Pensar que está vivo, cuando simplemente se ha dormido en la antesala de la vida.

The means through which people may perceive Truth have forms; Truth has no form.

Sufism is experiential

Sufism is known by means of itself.

That which is capable of perceiving objective reality is, in Sufism, the human soul (ruh).

En el Sufismo, el alma humana (ruh) es aquello que es capaz de percibir la realidad objetiva.

Puede que seas capaz de engullir el hueso a través de la garganta, pero si llega a tu estómago perforará tu ombligo.

Estudia las suposiciones que hay detrás de tus acciones. Luego, estudia las suposiciones que hay tras tus suposiciones.