Quotes About Consciousness

If we can't wake up to the fact that deep down inside we are good, then we deserve to remain asleep dreaming we are evil.

Aeons change, not as the result of some war in heaven or astrological event. Rather they are simply the consequence of some improved modification in human consciousness. Obviously, such a mutation needs to be universal and fundamental: something most of us share with our fellows, something as simple as how we perceive our relationship with the Sun.

He began with the profound assumption that because the true, unadulterated consciousness of each human is ultimately godhead, then godhead already is our true, natural, and essential identity. We don't need to climb anywhere. Each of us already is number One on the Tree of Life. All lower (sleepier) levels of consciousness with which we may currently identify are illusionary—dream selves that we temporarily misidentify as our Self.

Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.

Man is a flux of states of consciousness, a flow of passing thoughts, each thought of self another self, a myriad thoughts, a myriad selves, a continual becoming but never being, a will-of-the-wisp flitting of ghosts in ghostland.

A personal philosophical experience of moving out of a world of sense and arriving, dazed and disoriented for a while, into a universe of being.

For it is in the field where meaning is constitutive that man's freedom reaches its highest point. There too his responsibility is greatest. There there occurs the emergence of his existential subject, finding out for himself that he has to decide for himself what he is to make of himself.

When the mind rests open, blank, Utterly without the apprehension of appearing objects, This is the moment of the universal ground.

The power of Thought,--the magic of the Mind!

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

The great object of life is sensation- to feel that we exist, even though in pain.

There is nothing more alone in the universe than man. He is alone because he has the intellectual capacity to know that he is separated by a vast gulf of social memory and experiment from the lives of his animal associates.

but there is every reason to think that the bulging cortex which would later measure stars and ice ages was still a dim, impoverished region in a skull box whose capacity was no greater than that of great apes.

People live in the six inches of real estate between their ears—in that three pounds of fat and protein that is the human brain. They live inside their heads. That's where reality resides. That's where every single human constructs an individual narrative of their life. That's where they tell themselves who they are, and what they can and can't be. And no person's reality can ever be the same as anyone else's.

the human mind is not an objective recorder of information . . .

Ona je bila posjedni?ki nastrojena... i to zbog njega. To prekrasno, ludo stvorenje — ili slijepo i gluho stvorenje, Å¡togod bila — hladnokrvno je to izjavilo kao da govori: »Dodaj mi solenku«, bez imalo svijesti da se Zemljina os upravo snažno nagnula.

I remember a quote from Einstein: "No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

Reacting vs. responding = reflexive vs. chosen. We can choose

Who looks inside, awakes.

The eminent Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung said this: "People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls." But he also said this: "Who looks inside, awakes.

Einstein: "No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

I remember a quote from Einstein: "No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it." I've always felt that made sense, but, like most of us, I also believe that I should be able to think my way out of my problem by going over and over how I thought myself into it.

Take responsibility for the energy you bring.

Although many of us may think of ourselves as thinking creatures that feel, biologically we are feeling creatures that think