Quotes About Consciousness

You only ever have a moment to live, this moment, and yet we all tend to live in the past or in the future.

once you see the difference that paying full attention can make to the small things in life, you start to get an inkling of the cost of inattention.

Everyday life offers endless opportunities for you to stop, to focus, to remind yourself to be fully awake and present to what is happening right now

thinking. And we don't need language to stand as an intermediary between us and the world; we can also experience it directly through our senses. We are capable of directly sensing things like the sounds of birds, the scent of beautiful flowers and the sight of a loved one's smile. And we know with the heart as well as the head. Thinking is not all there is to conscious experience. The mind is bigger and more encompassing than thought alone.

Mindfulness teaches us that thoughts are just thoughts; they are events in the mind. They are often valuable but they are not 'you' or 'reality'.

A typical meditation consists of focusing your full attention on your breath as it flows in and out of your body (see "A one-minute meditation" on the opposite page). Focusing on each breath in this way allows you to observe your thoughts as they arise in your mind and, little by little, to let go of struggling with them

You come to realize that thoughts come and go of their own accord; that you are not your thoughts.

The mind seems to have a mind of its own.

There is a hole in your mind.

I would urge the principle of self-limitation in regard to wealth," and he made this "plea to the wealthy": The first step to take, it they would set themselves right, is to live in the midst of superfluous wealth as if they were not the possessors of it; that is, to take for their own use only what they require for the essentials of a civilized life, and to regard the rest as a deposit for the general good, of which they themselves are not to be the beneficiaries.

To escape from the world means that one's mind is not concerned with the opinions of the world.

Each moment is all being, each moment is the entire world. Reflect now whether any being or any world is left out of the present moment.

The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.

Only human beings have the ability to seek growth and self-improvement. We have the capacity to consciously change the direction of our lives, to enrich and deepen our lives instead of just allowing them to flow on aimlessly.

Surely the world we live in is but the world that lives in us.

How amazing that you can think you are experiencing a profound happening, almost like a miracle--and then you realize that you just made it that way in you mind

Although it is difficult to pinpoint the physical base or location of awareness, it is perhaps the most precious thing concealed within our brains. And it is something that the individual alone can feel and experience. Each of us cherishes it highly, yet it is private

From the viewpoint of absolute truth, what we feel and experience in our ordinary daily life is all delusion. Of all the various delusions, the sense of discrimination between oneself and others is the worst form, as it creates nothing but unpleasant.

Our thoughts make us what we are.

death does not. Once death exists, I will not. Why should I fear something I will never experience?

In die laaste paar dekades van die negentiende eeu het Henry James begin met die skep van 'n soort sentrale intelligensie, dit wil sê, die verhaal word aangebied uit die bewussyn

Death is sleep without knowledge of the pleasure of life.

My eyes were closed, they're open now

Interesting how the self can be split into segments, orgasm and observation at the same time, the eye that watches the I. Neither is me, but both might be.