Quotes About Consciousness

Presence is experienced in a participative way, outside the mind.

It has been said that 90 percent of people seem to live 90 percent of their lives on cruise control, which is to be unconscious.

The biblical symbol of the Universal and Eternal Christ standing at both ends of cosmic time was intended to assure us that the clear and full trajectory of the world we know is an unfolding of consciousness with "all creation groaning in this one great act of giving birth" (Romans 8:22).

The self-same moment that we find God in ourselves, we also find ourselves inside God

The end is already planted in us at the beginning, and it gnaws away at us until we get there freely and consciously.

This needed work is indeed "spiritual warfare," as the desert monks called it, since it takes conscious and sustained struggle to be aware of the shadow self—which only takes ever more subtle disguises the "holier" you get.

Such utterly free and gratuitous love is the only love that validates, transforms, and changes us at the deepest levels of consciousness. It is what we all desire and what we were created for. Once you allow it for yourself, you will almost naturally become a conduit of the same for others.

We have to accept that human culture is in a mass hypnotic trance. We're sleepwalkers.

This realization that Someone is living in us and through us is exactly how we plug into a much larger mind and heart beyond our own.

To keep the mind space open, you need some form of meditative practice—something much more than saying prayers. In fact, if recitation of prayers does not lead to a change in consciousness, it is actually counterproductive.

It seems we are not that free to be honest, or even aware, because most of our garbage is buried in the unconscious. So, it is absolutely essential that we find a spirituality that reaches to that hidden level. If not, nothing really changes.

Only presence can know presence. And our real presence can know Real Presence.

It was a scary thought. A man could be surrounded by poetry reading and not know it.

Is good fiction more likely to be about the air we breathe or the nose we breathe it through?

As always, to Sully, the deepest of life's mysteries were the mysteries of his own behavior.

A man could be surrounded by poetry readings and not know it.

Weakness with watchfulness will stand, when strength with too much confidence fails. Weakness, with acknowledgement of it, is the fittest seat and subject for God to perfect his strength in; for consciousness of our infirmities drives us out of ourselves to him in whom our strength lies.

only God's Spirit can raise the conscience with comfort above guilt, because he only is greater than the conscience.

Cognition begins with sensation.

La mente umana segue il sentiero archetipico numinoso che parte dal suo interno.

A man will seek to express his relation to the stars; but when a man's consciousness has been riveted upon obtaining a loaf of bread, that loaf of bread is as important as the stars.

Even though Mr. Dalton gave millions of dollars for Negro education, he would rent houses to Negroes only in this prescribed area, this corner of the city tumbling down from rot. In a sullen way Bigger was conscious of this. Yes; he would send the kidnap note. He would jar them out of their senses. When

What was this sense of guilt so seemingly innate, so easy to come by, to think, to feel, so verily physical? It seemed that when one felt this guilt one was but retracing in one's living a faint pattern designed long before; it seemed that one was trying to remember a gigantic shock that had left an impression upon one's body which one could not forget, but which had been almost forgotten by the conscious mind, creating in one a state of external anxiety.

Yet he saw and felt but one life, and that one life was more than a sleep, a dream; life was all he had