Quotes About Consciousness

the key to better tennis—or better anything—lies in improving the relationship between the conscious teller, Self 1, and the natural capabilities of Self 2.

Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.

I cannot now think symbols less than the greatest of all powers whether they are used consciously by the master of magic or half unconsciously by their successors, the poet, the musician, and the artist.

All we are not stares back at what we are.

Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.

I am sure it is everyone's experience, as it has been mine, that any discovery we make about ourselves or the meaning of life is never, like a scientific discovery, a coming upon something entirely new and unsuspected; it is rather, the coming to conscious recognition of something, which we really knew all the time but, because we were unwilling to formulate it correctly, we did not hitherto know we knew.

The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.

And each in the cell of himself is almost convinced of his freedom.

The great vice of our age […] is that we are all not only 'actors' but know that we are ('reduplicated Hamlets'), and that it is only at moments, in spite of ourselves, and when we least expect it, that our real feelings break through.

Is not a critic," asks Professor Stoll, "... a judge, who does not explore his own consciousness, but determines the author's meaning or intention, as if the poem were a will, a contract, or the constitution?

I waste much time gaping and wondering. During a walk or in a book or in the middle of an embrace, suddenly I awake to a stark amazement at everything. The bare fact of existence paralyses me- holds my mind in mortmain. To be alive is so incredible that all I do is to lie still and merely breathe- like an infant on its back in a cot. It is impossible to be interested in anything in particular while overhead the sun shines or underneath my feet grows a single blade of grass.

The work is to somehow talk ourselves beyond / the sleepiness of selfhood

When I was me I remembered I could remember what was not there but may have been there once

To remember Is not to rehearse, but to hear what never Has fallen silent.

we know from the beginning that the darkness is beyond us there is no explaining the dark it is only the light that we keep feeling a need to account for

Thine own consciousness, not formed into anything, in reality void, and the intellect, shining and blissful, --these two,-- are inseparable. The union of them is the Dharma-K?ya state of Perfect Enlightenment.

O nobly-born, listen on distractedly. On the Second Day [of death] the pure form of water will shine as a white light.

I think that the real religion is about the understanding that if we can only still our egos for a few seconds, we might have a chance of experiencing something that is divine in nature.

There are people who can start having very powerful experiences without taking psychedelics. It can happen against their will. This is a universal phenomenon.

If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves, art would be unnecessary.

Turning points in human consciousness occur when new energy regimes converge with new communications revolutions, creating new economic eras.

Get very clear about the kind of world we would like and then start living that way.

With every choice you make, be conscious of what need it serves.

Conscious communication is called Turiya-when you are totally effective, totally understood and totally truthful.