Quotes About Consciousness

Living itself is the source of sin.

Whenever I let the slightest thing make me forget myself, I can't help but be disappointed

Falling asleep is such a strange feeling. It's like a carp or an eel is tugging on a fishing line, or something heavy like a lead weight is pulling on the line that I'm holding with my head, and as I doze off to sleep, the line slackens up a bit. When that happens, it startles me back to awareness. Then it pulls me again. I doze off to sleep. The line loosens a bit again. This goes on three or four times, and then, with the first really big tug, this time it lasts until morning.

It's a faculty absolutely unique to man—having secrets.

Ojii-san's wen has been his only confidant, and he's conscious of a certain loneliness without it.

Nunca conocí la sensación de hambre. Parece una expresión un poco rara, pero aunque tuviera hambre no me daba cuenta.

People also talk of a criminal consciousness All my life in this world of human beings I have been tortured by such a consciousness, but it has been my faithful companion, like a wife in poverty, and together, just the two of us, we have indulged in our forlorn pleasures.

Ainda que de formas diferentes, nós dois éramos pessoas perdidas e absolutamente isoladas das atividades humanas. A diferença básica entre nós é que ele agia sem consciência de sua farsa e, sobretudo, sem perceber quanto havia de trágico em sua farsa.

To have done a rather horrible thing, and think that one can be forgiven with just the phrase 'I'm sorry,'—one would have to be a selfish person with no consciousness of their own wrongdoing.

Everyone supposedly knows from this world what greatness is. However, not everybody realizes that we actually live in such a world.

The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling I have always cultivated.

Zen lives in the present. The Whole teaching is: how to be in the present; how to get out of the past which is no more and how not to get involved in the future which is not yet, and just to be rooted, centered, in that which is.

Zen says: be empty. Look without any idea. Look into the nature of things but with no idea, with no prejudice, with no presupposition.

If you can become a mirror you have become a meditator. Meditation is nothing but skill in mirroring. And now, no word moves inside you so there is no distraction.

One has to reach to the absolute state of awareness: that is Zen. You cannot do it every morning for a few minutes or for half an hour and then forget all about it. It has to become like your heartbeat. You have to sit in it, you have to walk in it. Yes, you have even to sleep in it.

Once your awareness becomes a flame, it burns up the whole slavery that the mind has created.

Don't look for God in the sky; look within your own body.

Be — don't try to become

Nobody can teach you love. Love you have to find yourself, within your being, by raising your consciousness to higher levels.

The deadliest Pharisaism today is not hypocrisy, but unconscious unreality.

We think rightly or wrongly about prayer according to the conception we have in our minds of prayer. If we think of prayer as the breath in our lungs and the blood from our hearts, we think rightly. The blood flows ceaselessly, and breathing continues ceaselessly; we are not conscious of it, but it is always going on. We are not always conscious of Jesus keeping us in perfect joint with God, but if we are obeying Him, He always is. Prayer is not an exercise, it is the life.

If you want to be of use to God, get rightly related to Jesus Christ and He will make you of use unconsciously every minute you live.

God cannot deliver me while my interest is merely in my own character. Paul was not conscious of himself. He was recklessly abandoned, totally surrendered, and separated by God for one purpose--to proclaim the gospel of God.

If you want to be of use to God, maintain the proper relationship with Jesus Christ by staying focused on Him, and He will make use of you every minute you live—yet you will be unaware, on the conscious level of your life, that you are being used of Him.