Quotes About Consciousness

The more we become civilized, the more we simultaneously understand our need to be virtuous and our need to understand our experiences on a subconscious level.

If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form; could our minds be made visible we should find them tailed.

Surely one of the most visible lessons taught by the twentieth century has been the existence, not so much of a number of different realities, but of a number of different lenses with which to see the same reality.

Look at another person while living; the soul is not visible, only the body which it animates. Therefore, merely because after death the soul is not visible is no demonstration that it does not still live.

The vision of the human being is confined today to the physical body. One regards this as a reality; one cannot raise oneself to what is spiritual. The souls who now look upon their own physical bodies with their eyes, and are unable to rise to what is spiritual, were incarnated among earlier peoples as Greeks, as Romans, and as ancient Egyptians.

Frankl's quote pops into my mind again. He's making space between stimulus and response in order to choose his freedom.

Once we know what we're feeling, we can make choices about where we want to go with them.

Reacting vs. responding = reflexive vs. chosen. We can choose our response, Frankl was saying, even under the specter of death.

It turns out that most of us aren't aware of how we actually spend our time or what we really do all day until we break it down hour by hour and say it out loud.

quote from Einstein: "No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

symbolically or literally)—all of them evoke memories, conscious or not. Often they inform how you relate to yourself and others. Sometimes you have conversations with them in your head; sometimes they speak to you in your sleep.

When you stop tossing junk into the void—words, words, and more words—something important rises to the surface.

do with the time he gains except kill it." Fromm was right;

I hum some secret place into being, thinking of this other me, the one that only I can see, a girl called She, who is not We, a girl who I will never be.

My father used to say there are two kinds of people: the noticers and the noticed

Pay attention to your breathing," she chided. "Not my butt.

The writing in this book gives us a vocabulary and a way of seeing. But ultimately, with these words resonating in our consciousness, we must turn to the book of nature itself. It matters how we think about and touch this place during our brief and precious time in the world…it can come to reside in us as surely as we reside in it.

Büyük kuramlar geli?tiriyoruz, ruhen uyumlu olmak istiyoruz, her ?eyi k?l? k?rk yararcas?na s?namak istiyoruz, ama sonunda ba?ka hiçbir i?arete bakmadan an?n bah?ettikleriyle seçiyoruz birbirimizi.

Bilinçle kavrad???m?z ve yapt???m?z ?eylerin, bireysel geli?imimizle hiçbir ilgisi olmayan gizli kalm?? duyusal izlenimlere k?yasla hayat?m?z üzerindeki etkisi ne kadar az.

Bilinçle kavrad???m?z ve yapt???m?z ?eylerin, bireysel geli?imimizle hiçbir ilgisi olmayan gizli kalm?? duyusal izlenimlere k?yasla hayat?m?z üzerindek? etkisi ne kadar az.

Showing a photograph of a brain lit-up in a certain way, and claiming that this "explains" samadhi, is like showing a picture of a tree lit-up in a certain way, and claiming that this "explains" Christmas.

Lord, help me control my tongue. Help me be careful about what I say. —PSALM 141:3 ICB

It is indeed a peculiarity of ideology that it imposes (without appearing to do so, since these are 'obviousnesses') obviousness and obviousness, which we cannot fail to recognize and before which we have the inevitable and natural reaction of crying out (aloud or in the 'still small voice of conscience'): 'That's obvious! That's right! That's true!

For it is characteristic of ideology to impose self-evident facts as self-evident facts (without in the least seeming to, since they are 'self­-evident') which we cannot not recognize and before which we have the inevitable and eminently natural reaction of exclaiming (aloud or in 'the silence of consciousness'): 'That's obvious! That's right! That's true!