Quotes About Consciousness

Car notre passé, qu'est-il d'autre qu'une suite de rêves ? Quelle différence y a-t-il entre se rappeler les rêves et se rappeler le passé ? Et c'est la fonction que remplit le livre.

Evolution is gaining the psychic zones of the world... life, being and ascent of consciousness, could not continue to advance indefinitely along its line without transforming itself in depth. The being who is the object of his own reflection, in consequence, of that very doubling back upon himself becomes in a flash able to raise himself to a new sphere.

There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendship between those engaged in furthering the evolution of consciousness has a quality impossible to describe.

Matter is spirit moving slowly enough to be seen.

We are not physical beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a physical experience.

Remain true to yourself, but move ever upward toward greater consciousness and greater love! At the summit you will find yourselves united with all those who, from every direction, have made the same ascent. For everything that rises must converge.

Una humanidad, global o parcial, q no tuviera ninguna conciencia de su pasado sería tan anormal como un individuo amnésico (…) en la medida en q el pasado humano es mal conocido, malinterpretado, los hombres y los grupos de hombres, tiene una visión incorrecta de su presente, ?y de su futuro

Man is the one creature on Earth who knows he will die, and that is an appalling intellectual burden.

Knowing what Thou knowest not Is in a sense Omniscience.

Every thought we have is a form of energy that continues to exist forever.

The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have penetrated the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of a violet. What philosophy can calculate the vibrations of the heart before it can distinguish the colours of love?

Either death is a state of nothingness and utter unconsciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another… Now if death be of such a nature, I say that to die is to gain; for eternity is then only a single night.

A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognize that the same thing happens to the soul.

We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.

Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls. Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. [...] Then it was as if One voice sounded. One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing; now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.

All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.

And he used to say that sleep and sexual intercourse, more than any thing else, made him conscious that he was mortal, implying that both weariness and pleasure arise from one and the same natural weakness.

All men, while they are awake, are in one common world; but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.

But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy.

Sanskrit describes five layers of self, or mind: Physical, feeling, perception, intention, and consciousness.

People who had been through a lot reported that they changed their life, or got clarity, when they became conscious of what kind of person a certain job/industry/lifestyle was turning them into.

The richness of our lives depends on what we are willing to notice and what we are willing to believe.

In our normal, everyday forms of consciousness, we suffer form what [William] James calls a 'lifelong habit of inferiority to our full self.' Insofar as the self that encases the seed of a wider consciousness like a husk is seen as 'conventionally healthy,' cracking it open to uncover the higher part leaves the individual exposed to neurosis; but then, as James reminds us and as Jung himself knew, this may well be the chief condition for receptivity to these higher realms.

W]hat would be more reliable than the East and the West? Perhaps a concept of the world, the universe, or the cosmos. Our age can be characterized by the growing consciousness of the world as a whole. Our historical era is in essence cosmological.