Quotes About Consciousness

If a person kills a tree before its time, it is like having murdered a soul.-Rabbi Nachman

True beings are lived in the present, the life of objects is lived in the past.

We can be redeemed only to the extent to which we see ourselves.

What killed expert swimmers practicing underwater laps in pools was not a strangling on water but the soft oblivion of oxygen deprivation. At the end they no more than gently stirred, even if in the last lit cell in their brain they were still stroking powerfully ahead.

It is part of the pholosophic dullness of our time that there are millions of rational monsters walking about on their hind legs, observing the world through pairs of flexible little lenses, periodically supplying themselves with energy by pushing organic substances through holes in their faces, who see nothing fabulous whatever about themselves.

We cannot tell that we are constantly splitting into duplicate selves because our consciousness rides smoothly along only one path in the endlessly forking chains

Sin is commitable in thought, word or deed; so is virtue.

We use our brains too little, and when we do, it is only to make excuses for our reflexes and our instincts.

The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.

Thus "phenomenology" means ???????????? ?? ????????? -- to let that which shows itself be seen from itself in the very way in which it shows itself from itself.

We're not aware of the "big picture," any more than a plankton whose universe was a liter of water would be aware of the world's topography and biosphere.

Union with God is not something that needs to be acquired but realized.

most of us are rarely inside the present moment. We spend a disproportionate amount of time plotting the future or revisiting past events. But when we swim, or shower, or take a bath, we have little choice but to position ourselves in the present, giving our thoughts room to float and wander

Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.

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Eu cred c? s? fii inteligent este mai r?u decât s? fii prost, pentru c? un prost nu-ÅŸi d? seama ce-i cu el, pe când cineva inteligent, chiar dac?-i umil ÅŸi modest tot o ÅŸtie.

But don't you see," I exclaimed. "Everything is synchronicity. Nothing happens by chance." As I said these words in my dream, a tremendous energy flooded my brain and shocked me awake, forcing me to consider this intuitive answer. What if it were true? What if, moment by moment, we create our own realities through our consciousness?

The fact that commercial culture always panders to the lowest common denominator of awareness and taste should not stop us in our personal revolution to become real human beings.

The business of stories is not enchantment. The business of stories is not escape. The business of stories is waking up.

Only in very special individuals is there a sense of a past continuous self.

Always remember that it's the ego that wants to know and identify everything that is taking place and that this desire is an unnecessary distraction from the real work.

The problem that is being addressed in this therapy is that the ego is mistaken for the self, when it is not

it is more properly understood as a masking of the self that is a constructed identity, a character. When the ego is too dominant, it prevents people from knowing their true identity and, as a result, interferes with an individual's ability to make informed and clear distinctions between authentic reality and contrived reality, and to act accordingly.

you'll start to see that how you think about yourself, others, and objects, and the world in general, will start to shift to fit with your new patterns of expression.