Quotes About Consciousness

So live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!

There is no real independent self, aloof from other human beings, inspecting the world, inspecting other people. You are, in fact, connected not just via Facebook and Internet, you're actually quite literally connected by your neurons.

Here is this three-pound mass of jelly you can hold in the palm of your hand, and it can contemplate the vastness of interstellar space. It can contemplate the meaning of infinity and it can contemplate itself contemplating on the meaning of infinity.

A wise mother knows: It is her state of consciousness that matters. Her gentleness and clarity command respect. Her love creates security.

Everything which endures can only do so because Eternal Consciousness gives it sentience.

the sinful mind is blind, ungrateful, and irrational.

Scripture defines sin as a transgression of God's law, and it is God's law that defines right and wrong. Romans 3:20 says, "Through the law we become conscious of sin," and John writes, "In fact, sin is lawlessness" (1 John 3:4). To break God's command is to do wrong, that is, to sin.

To begin with self-consciousness is to begin with the proposition, "I exist.

If the human mind makes decisions based on factors, causes, and influences not chosen by the mind itself, then these decisions are not free.

Do you ever rub your eyes and suddenly find you're awake and not asleep, as you'd grown to suspect you were?

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

But I myself do not think I cannot make mistakes - I am too conscious of my many errors to be able to say this or that is the right manner and this or that, the wrong one. That goes without saying. But I am not indifferent, I think it wrong to be so. I think it one's duty to try to do the right thing, even knowing that one cannot go through life without making mistakes, without regret or sorrow. Somewhere I read, Some good must come by clinging to the right.

La conciencia es la brújula humana

The trick was learning to live without the grief and without the guilt. The trick was to create a life worth living, a life no longer conscious of death.

Of course, it comes to me, finally, that I'm not really dreaming. That I am actually moving through this tunnel, although not of my own power. Without

A mind aware of its own rectitude.

Clearly, animals know more than we think, and think a great deal more than we know." -Irene Pepperburg

Clearly animals know more than we think, and think a great deal more than we know." Irene Pepperberg

We were wrong about why these animals behave as they do, in part, I think, because most of us do not grant animals even the simplest form of thought, or recognize that they do things intentionally.

Clearly, animals know more than we think and think a great deal more than we know.

But it is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that we do not believe a word that we are saying.

Secondly, we have also to know that, of all the centres, we have particularly to remember three,—the Mulâdhâra or the basic, the Sahasrâra or the thousand-petalled lotus in the brain, and the Manipura or the lotus in the navel.

My beloved boy, alone, in the beginning there existed the One without a second. That saw and felt, "I will give birth to the many." That projected heat.

All knowledge, therefore, secular or spiritual, is in the human mind. In many cases it is not discovered, but remains covered, and when the covering is being slowly taken off, we say, "We are learning," and the advance of knowledge is made by the advance of this process of uncovering. The man from whom this veil is being lifted is the more knowing man, the man upon whom it lies thick is ignorant