Quotes About Consciousness

The fairest sharing to humanity is time, 24hours for every living thing. What you do with it is up to you.

You are not seeing reality. You are seeing what you are believing. Stop believing and you will see more reality.

Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.

Life is a gift. Wake up everyday and realize that.

Live in the moment. Forget the past and don't concern yourself with the future.

If you can bring your consciousness, your awareness, your intelligence to the act, if you can be spontaneous, then there is no need for any other religion, life itself will be the religion.

The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.

In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence.

The past is gone. The future is not yet here. And if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with Life.

Don't worry about the past and the future. This moment needs your attention, this is where your life exists.

I could feel every nerve in my body, every brush of air against my skin.

Soy aire y pensamiento, y nada puedo hacer.

You don't have to follow a religion if you listen to the divine voice within you, pay close attention to instincts and intuitions.

The sound-syllable Om represents the fundamental thought-form of all-pervading reality.

That consciousness is everything and that all things begin with a thought. That we are responsible for our own fate, we reap what we sow, we get what we give, we pull in what we put out. I know these things for sure.

But even when people are too weak to speak, or have lost consciousness, they can hear; hearing is the last sense to fade.

The psyche is divided into consciousness and the unconscious and the latter serves to compensate the conscious attitude. Whenever the conscious attitude is too one-sided, its unconscious opposite manifests itself autonomously (Greek: auto=self, nomos=law, a law unto itself) to rectify the imbalance. It does this internally through powerful dreams and images, or it can pathologize in disease.

Fifteen days after we are born, we begin to discriminate between colors. For the rest of our lives, barring blunted or blinded sight, we find ourselves face-to-face with all these phenomena at once, and we call the whole shimmering mess "color." You might even say that it is the business of the eye to make colored forms out of what is essentially shimmering. This is how we "get around" in the world. Some might also call it the source of our suffering.

For no one really knows what color is, where it is, even whether it is. (Can it die? Does it have a heart?) Think of a honeybee, for instance, flying into the folds of a poppy: it sees a gaping violet mouth, where we see an orange flower and assume that it's orange, that we're normal. 39.

Once we name something, you said, we can never see it the same way again. All that is unnameable falls away, gets lost, is murdered. You called this the cookie-cutter function of our minds. You said that you knew this not from shunning language but from immersion in it, on the screen, in conversation, onstage, on the page.

You might even say that it is the business of the eye to make colored forms out of what is essentially shimmering. This is how we "get around" in the wirld. Some might also call it the source of our suffering.

As we think, we might remember that it matters not only with whom and what we choose to think; it also matters what spirit we choose to think with.

This is a simple story, but it spooks me, insofar as it reminds me that the eye is simply a recorder, with or without our will. Perhaps the same could be said of the heart. But whether there is a violence at work here remains undecided.

How clearly I have seen my condition, yet how childishly I have acted