Quotes About Consciousness

the animals on Jacob's Ladder are likely to be sensitive

Ganesh held up one hand. "There's more, and it suggests that tens of thousands of people, focused on the same expectation, can unwittingly affect reality and make that expectation come to pass.

meaningful coincidences reveal that our collective consciousness creates reality at least to some degree.

In one of his psychology classes, he'd been taught that, as a person lay dying

Sometimes there is no darker place than our own thoughts: the moonless midnight of our mind

the brain produced

Singularity

All matter, when seen at its root, arises out of a base web that has all the characteristics of thought waves.

Maybe it's just that before anything came the word, and words are the roots of everything that our senses perceive. Nothing can be imagined, nothing can be visualized in our minds, until we have a word for it. Therefore, when I give myself to the free flow of any words that trip off my tongue without predetermination, I am tapping into the primal creative power at the heart of the cosmos.

I wonder sometimes why those who theorize about the human mind can so easily believe in the existence of things they cannot see or measure, or in any meaningful way confirm as real—such as the id, the ego, the unconscious I—but nevertheless dismiss as superstitious those who believe the body has a soul.

Libby has always thought animals live in the moment, their past dismissed as irrelevant

Don't use your mind to try and figure things out. What is it that watches your mind? Be there—now.

Just to have ordinary, garden-variety human consciousness is unspeakably extraordinary. We are the luckiest of mud. No need to consider further: we'd be perfectly justified to stop right here with tears of wonder and gratitude pouring down our cheeks.

We are where we are because of repeated unconscious or unhealthy choices that we've made day after day after day that add up to the reality we find ourselves in.

God will gracefully respond. When divine consciousness enters, the shift occurs and you will be engulfed by what will feel like the greatest love imaginable—a love in which your soul realigns with your spirit and they meet together as one.

There was a certain comfort in denial. This fragile peace with her consciousness had to be maintained at all costs. Ignored and buried.

All I need to do is open my eyes.

Joy begins with thankfulness. Quite often our attitudes hang in the balance; by making a conscious choice, we can tip our souls into dark moods of complaining, or into thankfulness and praise. It is amazing how much your mouth controls your soul. You

What does one say to somebody who says: 'Whatever the sum total of the elements I am composed of I am still one entity. Now one cause has only one effect. I have always been one single cause and I have therefore only ever had one effect to produce. My existence in time is therefore nothing more than a series of necessary effects'?

We live in the post-trash, man. It'll be a real short eon. Down in the ectoplasmic circuitry where humanity's leaders are all linked up unconsciously with each other and with the masses, man, there's been this unanimous worldwide decision to trash the planet and get on to a new one.

The abyss is full of reality, the abyss experiences itself, the abyss is alive.

War is ninety percent myth anyway, isn't it? In order to prosecute our own wars we raise them to the level of human sacrifice, don't we, and we constantly invoke our God. It's got to be about something bigger than dying, or we'd all turn deserter. I think we need to be much more conscious of that. I think we need to be invoking the other fellow's gods too.

All night the dreamer travels in this region and doesn't realize he's asleep. The differences between the logic of that world and the logic of this waking one are vast. But they feel the same. And isn't that how we recognize logic, by the way it feels?

What I don't think has been talked about is the fact that in order to be Hell, the people in Hell could never be sure they were really there.