Quotes About Consciousness

There are some things we may not understand, but we can sense them perfectly well.

Those of us who think God addresses us by means of external events are wrong, as naive as children. For he whispers directly into our innermost souls.

Are you asleep?' he asked. 'Are you religious?' I had to put the question. 'Yes,' he replied proudly. 'I'm an atheist.

The prison is not outside, but inside each of us.

Reject everything, do not look, shut your eyes and change your gaze, awaken another one that almost everyone has, but that few use.

Cz?owiek, którego widzisz, nie dlatego istnieje, ?e go widzisz, ale dlatego, ?e to on na ciebie patrzy.

Mert minél tisztább, minél élesebb a tudat, annál több benne a rettegés. (...) Ha nem tudunk róla, hogy létezünk, megszabadulunk az id?t?l és a haláltól.

Marta háza olyan, mint ? – hozzá hasonlóan nem ismer semmit, sem Istent, sem a teremtményeit, s?t saját magát sem, semmit sem akar tudni a világról. Egyetlen pillanat van benne, csak a "most", az viszont óriási, minden irányban elnyúlik, agyonnyom, nem embernek való.

estamos hechos de materia y al mismo tiempo somos ajenos a ella, que estamos separados de ella.

Nie mo?emy traktowa? czynu kobiety jako w pe?ni ?wiadomego - odezwa? si? znowu Frommer. - Psychologia kobieca udowodni?a, ?e kobieta jest jednocze?nie i podmiotem, i przedmiotem, wi?c jej wybory mog? by? tylko w pewnej cz??ci ?wiadome... (...) Kobiety ze swej natury s? delikatniejsze i bardziej wra?liwe, dlatego tak ?atwo sk?aniaj? si? do czynów nieprzemy?lanych.

the vastness of these contents cannot be traversed from word to word- you have to step in between the words, into the unfathomable abysses between ideas. With every step we'll slip and fall.

Mensen denken dat ze intenser leven dan dieren, dan planten en zeker dan dingen. Dieren vermoeden dat ze intenser leven dan planten en dingen. Planten dromen dat ze intenser leven dan dingen. En dingen duren voort en in dat voortduren zit meer leven dan in al het andere.

When you live in a place and a time in which certain laws are in effect, then you must observe those laws, but never forgetting that they are only partial systems, never absolute. For the truth is something else, and if a person is not prepared to come to know it, then it may seem frightening and terrible, and that person may curse the day he learned of it. But I do believe that everyone can tell what kind of person he truly is. It is just that deep down, he doesn't want to find out.

that no emotion can continue long in intensity, in the consciousness of a human being. It runs a course, like a disease. Mercifully. Recuperation begins its gentle work, once facts are comprehended and accepted.

On the path to truth, at every step, you set your foot down on your own heart.

Human kind cannot bear very much reality'.

The summons to wakefulness is therefore a summons to attend to my agency.

We have five senses in which we glory and which we recognize and celebrate, senses that constitute the sensible world for us. But there are other senses — secret senses, sixth senses, if you will — equally vital, but unrecognized, and unlauded.

Si hubiera sospechado lo que se oye después de muerto, no me suicido.

Y sacaréme la niebla el turbio zumo oscuro del traspienso la pulpa la soborra de mente toda su gris resaca me sacaré hasta el meollo antes de que se asiente la áspera espera arena que taté teté yo y lamí y tragué yo en la sed a trago tardo largo lo hueco lo plenamente hueco y que no es más que hueco pero crece

by trying to become "no-thought and no-thinking," we create the idea of "no-thought and no-thinking." This is one example of the wrong direction of zazen.

those who are inclined to tranquil meditation are apt to think that they have sat long enough as soon as disturbing thoughts within them subside during meditation. But thinking that they have sat long enough in itself is dualistic. As long as they are captured by such a thought, they cannot be liberated from dualism however long they may wait.

think that the essential point of Zen lies in "proof," which is variously called "right awareness of no-self," "seeing one's original self-nature," and so on.

the mind of nondiscriminating discrimination which Master Bankei calls the Unborn Buddha Mind. He writes, "To see and hear things without any preparation to see and hear them is called Unborn Mind.