Quotes About Consciousness

Don't talk too fast, you will trip on your words.

To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.

With meditation I found a ledge above the waterfall of my thoughts.

Se le ocurrió que nadie sino él miraría nunca desde sus ojos, que de entre todas las vidas en que podía haber vivido, más numerosas que lo imaginable, esta era la suya, clavada en este único punto del infinito; el resto siempre sería ajeno, él sería yo.

With a poignancy he had never felt during the half-stupefying agony on the beach, he was beset by a terrible consciousness of the world's ever-renewed, ever-varied, never-dying pain: children and animals without hope in the present moment's eternity; the prisoners of cruel men, the cruel terribly imprisoned in themselves...

The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized.

We must encourage energy conservation and sustainable development. Young people are the ones who are most environmentally conscious in Ireland, so that to some extent they are educating their parents. They are tackling issues of waste disposal and so on. The schools help, because they put a lot of stress on environmental awareness.

I live in a kind of controlled awareness. I wouldn't call it fear, but it's an awareness. I know I have a responsibility to behave in a certain way. I'm able to do that.

I have never been normal about my body. It has always seemed to me a strange and foreign entity. I don't know that there was ever a time when I was not conscious of it. As far back as I can think, I was aware of my own corporeality, my physical imposition on space.

The spiritual realm is not the ethereal beyond our lived experience. It is our experience, lived fully and well.

They are solid, real. I am an object, useful but hollow. The absence of thought fills me up.

That's the nice thing about dreams, the way you wake up before you fall.

Isn't it strange, Dez, that we never see certain parts of ourselves? Our backs, our lungs, our hearts. We never know what it really is to sit across from ourselves.

An insight is a fleeting glimpse of the brain's huge store58 of unknown knowledge. The cortex is sharing one of its secrets. —Jonah Lehrer

And maybe you are starting to notice my quote on the page "Look without, and you will be fulfilled within without a doubt." I really mean that look without, without of yourself not within.

There is no alarm clock like embarrassment,

When one existentially awakens from within, the relation of birth-and-death is not seen as a sequential change from the former to the latter. Rather, living as it is, is no more than dying, and at the same time there is no living separate from dying. This means that life itself is death and death itself is life. That is, we do not shift sequentially from birth to death, but undergo living-dying in each and every moment.

Emptiness is not a mere emptiness, but rather fullness in which the distinctiveness of everything is throughly realized.

When life is lived as a living-and-dying in the primordial, nonsubstantial nothingness, one realizes that life is bottomlessly life and death is bottomlessly death. Life does not change into death, and death does not take away life.

To realize life as absolute is to be existentially amancipated from life itself in that very realization, which understands that life is not life. The same applies to death.

The mystery existing between an open moment and a person's preparedness reveals the truth.

Consciousness is our only reprieve from Time.

The Light is always there. How much light comes to you depends on you.

Spirituality is a way of life. it is not just doing meditation.