Quotes About Consciousness

Never complain about what you allow.

Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.

Life consists of what a man is thinking about all day." –RALPH WALDO EMERSON

We can't choose whether we will get any more time, but we can choose what we do with it.

All lasting growth requires awareness.

Was his memory failing or had he so disciplined it in the repression of unpleasant facts that he had damaged his sense of the truth?

The greatest killer of creativity is interruption. It pulls your mind away from what you want to be thinking about. Research has shown that, after an interruption, it can take eight minutes for you to return to your previous state of consciousness, and up to twenty minutes to get back into a state of deep focus.

Frames of Mind

What is not perceived as such is not perceived at all.

If there is some monstrous consciousness behind all life,' he thought angrily, 'it's responsible for all the horrors! Come

And he recalled what Jason Otter had said about pity: how if you had pity and there was one miserable consciousness left in the universe, you had no right to be happy.

It is women's fatal susceptibility to passionate touch that hypnotises them into by far the greater number of their disasters; for under this touch-hypnosis the present transforms itself into the eternal, and their grand sex-defence, their consciousness of continuity, their awareness of the future as an integral portion of the present, is shattered and broken up.

Today things are different. The darkness in the outside world has vanished, but the darkness in our hearts remains, virtually unchanged. Just like an iceberg, what we label the ego or consciousness is, for the most part, sunk in darkness. And that estrangement sometimes creates a deep contradiction or confusion within us.

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

The art of living is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.

Let go, and move closer to existence in silence and peace, in meditation.

Do not fret about the coming hour. Do not worry about the pasted hour. Only focus on this hour.

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

Breathe in the wonder of every moment broadcasting gratitude to our higher consciousness.

Meditation is a death - death of all that you are now. Of course there will be a resurrection, but that will be a totally new, fresh original being which you are not even aware is hidden in you.

Death is unbearable unless you can get beyond the I.

Where I am death is not, where death is I am not.

Death is a withdrawal of consciousness. It's like taking attention from here and putting it there.