Quotes About Consciousness

To be mindful means to be back in touch with your senses, so you can see, hear, touch, smell and taste things

The breath breathes itself. If it was up to us to remember to breathe, we'd have forgotten long ago. So tuning into the breath can be an important antidote to the natural tendency toward believing that we have to be in control.

Maybe I'm afraid that if I could do otherwise I would gradually cease to be a human being, and would soon be creeping about, dirty and stinking, emitting incomprehensible noises. Not that I'm afraid of becoming an animal. That wouldn't be too bad, but a human being can never become just an animal; he plunges beyond, into the abyss.

Immer müssen die Denkenden darauf verzichten zu leben, und die Lebenden haben es nicht nötig zu denken. Die erlösende Tat wird nie getan werden, denn der die Kraft hätte, sie zu tun, weiß nicht, dass er sie tun muss, und der Wissende ist unfähig zu handeln.

Solo sabemos de verdad una cosa cuando el conocimiento de ella se extiende lentamente por todo el cuerpo.

Ce n'est que lorsque la connaissance d'une chose se répand dans le corps qu'on la sait vraiment. C'est ainsi que je n'ignore pas, comme tout un chacun, que je vais mourir, mais mes pieds, mes mains, mes entrailles l'ignorent encore et c'est pourquoi la mort me semble irréelle.

Isolation of catastrophic experiences. Dissociation may function to seal off overwhelming trauma into a compartmentalized area of conscious until the person is better able to integrate it into mainstream consciousness. The function of dissociation is particularly common in survivors of combat, political torture, or natural or transportation disasters.

Hypnosis can return an adult to more primitive levels of consciousness and may be related to reported memories of experiences in infancy.

people just don't know a nightmare when they right in the middle of one.

In successful Karezza the sex-organs become quiet, satisfied, demagnetized, as perfectly as by the orgasm, while the rest of the body of each partner glows with a wonderful vigor and conscious joy

With every choice you make, be conscious of what need it serves.

allows our natural compassion to flourish. It guides us to reframe the way we express ourselves and listen to others by focusing our consciousness on four areas: what we are observing, feeling, and needing, and what we are requesting to enrich our lives. NVC fosters deep listening, respect, and empathy and engenders a mutual desire to give from the heart.

The payoff for Ahimsa isn't that you upgrade the illusion, which is what the ego is always striving to do with more money, possessions, and power. The payoff is that you get to be who you really are. Higher

When our consciousness is focused on what we need, we are naturally stimulated toward creative possibilities for how to get that need met. In contrast, the moralistic judgements we use when blaming ourselves tend to obscure such possibilities and perpetuate a state of self-punishment.

Somos peligrosos cuando no somos conscientes de nuestra responsabilidad hacia cómo nos comportamos, pensamos y sentimos.

It's not what you do that counts, it's the quality of your attention.

Instead of habitual, automatic reactions, our words become conscious responses based firmly on awareness of what we are perceiving, feeling, and wanting.

And I want him to know the subtle, sneaky, important reason why he was born a human being and not a chair.

What is the life that is going on in me at this moment?

When we address a group without being clear what we are wanting back, unproductive discussions will often follow. However, if even one member of a group is conscious of the importance of clearly requesting the response that is desired, he or she can extend this consciousness to the group.

After having acknowledged that you choose to do a particular activity, get in touch with the intention behind your choice by completing the statement, I choose to … because I want ….

observing without evaluating is the highest form of human intelligence.

We are dangerous when we are not conscious of our responsibility for how we behave, think, and feel.

Let's shine the light of consciousness on places where we can hope to find what we are seeking.