Quotes About Consciousness

Nevertheless, every failure to cope with a life situation must be laid, in the end, to a restriction of consciousness. Wars and temper tantrums are the makeshifts of ignorance; regrets are illuminations come too late.

All these different mythologies give us the same essential quest. You leave the world that you're in and go into a depth or into a distance or up to a height. There you come to what was missing in your consciousness in the world you formerly inhabited. Then comes the problem either of staying with that, and letting the world drop off, or returning with that boon and trying to hold on to it as you move back into your social world again. That's not an easy thing to do.

Only when that mortal "you" will have erased everything about itself that it cherishes and is holding to, will "you" have come to the brink of an experience of identity with that Being which is no being yet is the Being beyond the nonbeing of all things. Nor is It anything that you have ever known, ever named, or even thought about in this world:

The unpardonable sin, in Campbell's book, was the sin of inadvertence, of not being alert, not quite awake.

Schopenhauer sagely remarks in his paper on The Will in Nature, "we are sunk in the sea of riddles and inscrutables, knowing and understanding neither what is around us nor ourselves.

of that dragon power. When Siegfried has killed the dragon and tasted the blood, he hears the song of nature. He has transcended his humanity and reassociated himself with the powers of nature, which are the powers of our life, and from which our minds remove us. You see, consciousness thinks it's running the

in this wonderful human brain of ours there has dawned a realization unknown to the other primates. It is that of the individual, conscious of himself as such, and aware that he, and all that he cares for, will one day die.

Description of the Six Bodily Centers of the Unfolding Serpent Power (?a?-cakra-nir?pana), which has been

transcendent means to "transcend," to go past duality. Everything in the field of time and space is dual.

And so what then happens to the children of a society that has refused to allow any such interplay to develop, but, clinging to its inherited dream as to a fixture of absolute truth, rejects the novelties of consciousness, of reason, science, and new facts?

The body is not the Bodhi tree. The mind, no mirror bright. Since nothing is there, on what should dust alight?

MOYERS: And what does the idea of reincarnation suggest? CAMPBELL: It suggests that you are more than you think you are. There are dimensions of your being and a potential for realization and consciousness that are not included in your concept of yourself. Your life is much deeper and broader than you conceive it to be here.

God is separate from nature, and nature is condemned of God. It's right there in Genesis: we are to be the masters of the world. But if you will think of ourselves as coming out of the earth, rather than having been thrown in here from somewhere else, you see that we are the earth, we are the consciousness of the earth.

The mechanically induced mystical experience is what you have there.

It was one of the marks of sentience, the ability to distinguish reality from fantasy and still indulge in fantasy. In other words: I lied, therefore I thought.

Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness - perhaps unimaginative of me.

No humbling of reality to precept.

The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything until we can be impartial about our own organism.

If you stop painting policemen in order to paint windmills, criticism remains so overpoweringly policeman-conscious that even a windmill is seen as something with arms out, obviously directing the traffic.

The actions of m?y? are such that a powerful person, misled by the illusory, material energy, wrongly accepts himself as all in all and does not develop God consciousness.

There are no secrets.' The thing smiled, showing a row of even, childlike teeth. 'None worth keeping. Only the ones you hide from yourself, which are the most damaging and hurtful of all. Truth is truth, and lie is lie. Tell yourself one's the other and all the world turns kilter.

In being aware of the bodily experience, we must thereby be aware of aspects of the whole spatio-temporal world as mirrored within the bodily life.....my theory involves the entire abandonment of the notion that simple location is the primary way in which things are involved in space-time.

Je crois que ma tâche première est d'approuver tout ce qu'un enfant désapprouve en lui-même - c'est-à-dire de briser la conscience qui lui est imposée par l'éducation et qui n'aboutit qu'à la haine de son moi. (p. 371)

La vie nous habitue à la mort par le sommeil. La vie nous avertit qu'il existe une autre vie par le rêve.