Quotes About Consciousness

If death turned out to be a lack of being rather than a lack of consciousness, well, then, that sucked.

We must always think about death, because death always thinks about us!

...eating animals involves an intentional decision to participate in the suffering and death of nonhumans where there is no plausible moral justification.

If it is finally accepted that the personality in whole or part survives death - and I believe that it will be - then such a belief will be considered as modern as a belief in spaceships and rockets.

I think death is just a transition to another state of consciousness.

When I am dying, I should like my life taken out under general anaesthetic, exactly as if it were a diseased appendix.

Elsewhere is wherever you are;

Il coula sans venir voir le coup, sans jamais pressentir l'issue, avide au contraire de s'assouvir encore, mais il ne se réveilla pas. Arrêt cardiaque. Il n'était plus. Affranchi de l'être, entré dans le nulle part, sans même en avoir conscience. Comme il le craignait depuis le début.

in truth nothing lives in me life my life.

in truth nothing lives in me like my life.

The test of observance of Christ's teachings is our consciousness of our failure to attain an ideal perfection. The degree to which we draw near this perfection cannot be seen; all we can see is the extent of our deviation. LEO TOLSTOY The

never live as though God does not exist." Or, stated positively, "Always live in awareness of God's existence.

Dr. Paul Tournier expresses this pattern in the language of psychiatry: "God blots out conscious guilt, but He brings to consciousness repressed guilt.

Nous passons notre temps à oublier, à oublier que nous vivons sur un planète limitée à laquelle nous appliquons un principe illimité, ce qui accélère le processus d'épuisement des ressources et d'accroissement des inégalités structurelles, source de mécontentements, de frustrations et de conflits.

The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

I am not a human being enjoying a spiritual life, I am a spiritual being enjoying a human life.

There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others that have a larger vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendships between those engaged in furthering the evolution of consciousness has a quality almost impossible to describe.

There was something more: around this sentient protoplasmic layer, an ultimate envelope was beginning to become apparent to me, taking on its own individuality and gradually detaching itself like a luminous aura. This envelope was not only conscious but thinking, and from the time when I first became aware of it, it was always there that I found concentrated, in an ever more dazzling and consistent form, the essence or rather the very Soul of the Earth.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.

You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are are spiritual beings immersed in a spiritual experience

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognise that the same thing happens to the soul.

Reality is created by the mind. We can change our reality by changing our mind.

There's no chance of their having a conscious glimpse of the truth as long as they refuse to disturb the things they take for granted and remain incapable of explaining them. For if your starting-point is unknown, and your end-point and intermediate stages are woven together out of unknown material, there may be coherence, but knowledge is completely out of the question.