Quotes About Consciousness

the information we allow into consciousness becomes extremely important; it in, in fact, what determines the content and quality of life.

When a person's psychic energy coalesces into a life theme, consciousness achieves harmony.

Whenever information disrupts consciousness by threatening its goals we have a condition of inner disorder, or psychic entropy, a disorganization of the self that impairs its effectiveness. Prolonged experiences of this kind can weaken the self to the point that it is no longer able to invest attention and pursue its goals.

Narcissistic individuals, who are mainly concerned with protecting their self, fall apart when the external conditions turn threatening. The ensuing panic prevents them from doing what they must do; their attention turns inward in an effort to restore order in consciousness, and not enough remains to negotiate outside reality.

This fact brings us to the second condition that affects whether an optimal experience will occur or not: an individual's ability to restructure consciousness so as to make flow possible.

When a person is able to organize his or her consciousness so as to experience flow as often as possible, the quality of life is inevitably going to improve, because, as in the case of Rico and Pam, even the usually boring routines of work become purposeful and enjoyable. In flow we are in control of our psychic energy, and everything we do adds order to consciousness.

competition as their main feature, such as most sports and athletic events; alea is the class that includes all games of chance, from dice to bingo; ilinx, or vertigo, is the name he gives to activities that alter consciousness by scrambling ordinary perception, such as riding a merry-go-round or skydiving; and mimicry is the group of activities in which alternative realities are created, such as dance, theater, and the arts in general.

Even the approach of death itself can serve to create harmony in consciousness, rather than despair.

It is a circuitous path that begins with achieving control over the contents of our consciousness.

You can drive a car all your life without knowing how the engine works, because the goal of driving is to get from one place to the next, regardless how it's done. But to live without understanding how we think, why we feel the way we feel, what directs our actions is to miss what is most important in life, which is the experience itself.

Most events in consciousness are built from culturally defined contents as well as from personal meanings developed throughout an individual's life. Thus, two persons can never be expected to have the same experience, and the farther apart in time and place they are, the more the details of the two experiences will differ.

When attention is focused, minor aches and pains have no chance to register in consciousness.

Control of consciousness determines the quality of life.

the self expands through acts of self forgetfulness.

Anxiety is a deep conscious breath away from dissolving.

Dot 1: Time and space (and therefore matter) are illusionary.

ask yourself before any meal, "Are the meat options before me necessary for my survival or just more convenient than other foods?

Heaven is everywhere, always, at once. Hell is not knowing it.

The thinking you, as you have sensed, is not a product of your brain; it is channeled by your brain.

You have inner senses: intellect, intuition, and feelings.

Actually, no one knows much of anything at all, except: Everything is God, Thoughts become things, and Love is all.

Even as you peer at the world through your eyes, not from your eyes, your essence transcends the illusions.

Your thoughts will then "become" the things, circumstances, and events of your life. As pointed out earlier, they don't do this spontaneously—that would completely shatter and nullify the physical laws that otherwise keep things working orderly—but gradually. Slowly. Progressively. Mostly in concert with the physical laws.

As a man thinketh, so he behaveth,