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Quotes About Consciousness

No two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is -- in other words, not a thing, but a think.
~ Penelope Fitzgerald
To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is – in other words, not a thing, but a think.
~ Penelope Fitzgerald
I absolutely know that you can, under your own steam, dissolve the shell that separates you from a higher experience of Self and a much better life. You don't need gurus or to be catapulted into super-natural experiences by dramatic events — you are becoming such a high-frequency being right here in your physical body, that what used to be meta-physical, trans-personal, and para-normal is now almost ordinary." —from Frequency: The Power of Personal Vibration
~ Penney Peirce
We do not attract what we want, but what we are.
~ Penney Peirce
No matter the origin, it's you who notices an idea and gives it weight; the perception is always happening in you.
~ Penney Peirce
the frequency of energy you hold moment by moment in your body, emotions, and mind—is the most important tool you have for creating and living your ideal life.
~ Penney Peirce
The simple truth is that moving into the Intuition Age is all about what you can know and do with energy and how you can develop effective, expanded sensitivity.
~ Penney Peirce
The Way of the Peaceful Warrior, The Celestine Prophecy, The Intuitive Way, Your Life Purpose, The Field, What the Bleep Do We Know!?, The Hidden Messages in Water, The Da Vinci Code, The Law of Attraction, and The Secret.
~ Penney Peirce
Time is important to me now, I tell myself.Not that it should pass quickly or slowly, but only be time, be something I live inside and fill with physical things and activities that I can divide it up by. so that it grows distict to me and does not vanish when I am not looking.
~ Per Petterson
Time is important to me now, I tell myself. Not that it should pass quickly or slowly, but be only time, be something I live inside and fill with physical things and activities that I can divide it up by, so that it grows distinct to me and does not vanish when I am not looking.
~ Per Petterson
I lay awake for the balance of the night letting my dream shatter into indecipherable pieces the way dreams do.
~ Percival Everett
As I fell asleep, I knew I would dream, and I dreamed first that I knew why I dreamed, why humans dream. We dream, quite simply, so we know we're not dead.
~ Percival Everett
He hath awakened from the dream of life.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
In fact, the truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
All things exist as they are perceived: at least in relation to the percipient. 'The mind is its own place, and of itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.' But poetry defeats the curse which binds us to be subjected to the accident of surrounding impressions. And whether it spreads its own figured curtain or withdraws life's dark veil from before the scene of things, it equally creates for us a being within our being.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
I am the eye with which the Universe Beholds itself and knows it is divine.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
He gave man speech, and speech created thought, which is the measure of the universe.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
If there are no reasons to suppose that we have existed before that period at which our existence apparently commences, then there are no grounds for supposing that we shall continue to exist after our existence has apparently ceased.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
One after another the greatest writers, poets, and artists confirm the fact that their work comes to them from beyond the threshold of consciousness.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
I urged myself to live in a state of complete consciousness, even when that meant pain or boredom." - Pete Hamill.
~ Pete Hamill
I suppose if we forgot stuff we'll never know we forgot it, because we won't remember
~ Pete Hautman
Through such neglect the child's consciousness eventually becomes overwhelmed with the processes of drasticizing and catastrophizing. Drasticizing and catastrophizing are critic processes that lead the child to constantly rehearse fearful scenarios in a vain attempt to prepare himself for the worst. This is the process by which Cptsd with its overdeveloped stress and toxic shame programs sets in and becomes triggerable by a plethora of normally innocuous stimuli.
~ Unknown
The collapse response is an extreme abandonment of consciousness. It appears to be an out-of-body experience that is the ultimate dissociation.
~ Unknown