Quotes About Consciousness

Yo siento que, en lo más hondo de la conciencia colectiva, se está fraguando un tercer movimiento que va cobrando ímpetu. Puede que se convierta en "el movimiento de las mujeres por la paz" esta tercera vez; su meta: detener la violencia mediante la participación de las mujeres en su prevención, en la resolución de conflictos y en la restauración de la paz. La

but until a feminist consciousness emerges, it is easy to be blind to misogyny and its far-reaching implications

To be a choicemaker in the third phase means that what you choose to do or be must correspond with what is true for you at a soul level.

If thoughts arise, observe them, but do not get hooked into stories about them; then let them "float away," the way bubbles float up and away when a diver exhales under water.

When your mind is stable, move into shikantaza by just sitting. Allow whatever comes up to come up, whether it is a sound or a thought or a physical sensation. Observe it until it drops away. Just let whatever is present be present. Continue this way until the end of your sitting period.

Thank everyone who calls out your faults, your anger, your impatience, your egotism; do this consciously, voluntarily.

We do not posses imagination enough to sense what we are missing.

Happy, Muriel? No, not happy. Your aim is wrong. There is no such thing as happiness. Life bends joy and pain, beauty and ugliness, in such a way that no one may isolate them. No one should want to. Perfect joy, or perfect pain, with no contrasting element to define them, would mean a monotony of consciousness, would mean death.

You could never be sure, at any given moment, whether she was inhabiting her own private fantasy land—which she seemed to do most of the time—or whether she was on one of her flying visits to what passed for reality.

The word "paracleta" means "the one who answers the cry." It is not possible to receive the Spirit unless we cry out, and unless that cry surges up from the consciousness of our own wound, our pain, and our brokenness.

Tout le monde veut sauver la planète, mais personne ne veut descendre les poubelles

Petite taille mais corps solide, c'était un travailleur manuel de l'esprit, un prolo de la conscience thétique.

He considered each and every second as if he'd never encountered one before, as if the time it kept was a permanent surprise.

Om niet terecht te komen in de valkuilen die onze zintuigen, ons dagelijkse denken en de vastgelopen logica ons voorspiegelen.

I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.

What matters in learning is not to be taught, but to wake up.

The mind is an activity, not a repository.

Surrealism is born of a consciousness of the derisory condition allotted to the individual and his thought, and a refusal to accommodate oneself to it.

La pensée est le réveil du sens.

Intr-o faimoasa previziune, A. Huxley a ironizat spiritele prefabricate: de la nasterea sa, copilul este conditionat prin difuzoare care ating subconstientul sau, apoi de scoala si societate care il orienteaza infailibil spre sertarul care ii este destinat. El a propovaduit educatia contra propagandei: formarea spiritelor inzestrate cu putere de alegere, a oamenilor constienti si responsabili.

I wanted to tell you this, too: consciousness is a bad thing. Consciousness is a dead thing. Free yourselves from consciousness! It is high time. All that is needed is to strip off this garment: nothing very difficult about that. Tear the skin from your body, for it is not a true skin, it is a cellophane tissue that blocks the pores, that asphyxiates. Peel the tissue off, peel it off.

Mais l'amour ce n'est pas cela, c'est une foudre à combustion lente, un éclair qui se déploie au ralenti dans le ciel plombé de la solitude et qui met des semaines, parfois des années à répandre sa lumière sur la conscience, laquelle devra attendre encore longtemps avant d'être secouée par les roulements terribles du tonnerre.

The main thing to do is pay attention. Pay close attention to everything, notice what no one else notices. Then you'll know what no one else knows, and that's always useful.

The main thing is to pay attention. Pay close attention to everything, notice what no one else notices. Then you'll know what no one else knows, and that's always useful.