Quotes About Consciousness

Who are we really? What are all the various pieces that form us? Which parts of ourselves do we embrace or dismiss, and what does that mean or not mean? Most of us are comfortable with expressing certain aspects of ourselves, while other sides might get left in the shade by default. For me, the latter was apparently happening on an unconscious level.

The path to self-discovery is not a straight line. It's a zigzag. We move in and out of awareness: one step forward, three steps to the left, a baby step back, another leap forward. A lightbulb moment might shine brightly one day, but then flicker the next. It takes work to hold tightly to a certain consciousness, to live in its wisdom. Every day, I have to intentionally maintain an awareness of my value.

Los granos de maíz que están en las mazorcas, las estrellas que nos miran desde el cielo, las pepas que están en los taxos, los pétalos que aparecen en las flores, todo lo que es posible imaginar, hasta las piedras, están vivas, tan vivas como tú y yo.

Only half-aware of the movements of his body, she turned her head to one side and stared up at the ceiling, where she noticed a spider's web.

In an instant between sleep and wakefulness, an instant outside the bounds of time, that gave the sensation of being eternal, the sounds of night, like slippery fishes passing through the mesh of a net, registered themselves on Zennouba's hearing, filtering gradually into her awakening consciousness:

Transpiro... Me toco. Siento que mis manos ya no son mis manos... Mi piel ya no es mi piel... Me encuentro en un estado rarísimo.. como si rozara la realidad, pero no pudiendo permanecer dentro de ella. Como si mi persona no estuviese allí, en ese lugar.

It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!

From an evolutionary perspective, parenting isn't a good model for parents and children. Caring for children, nurturing them and investing in them, is absolutely critical for human thriving. Teaching children implicitly and explicitly is certainly important. But, from the point of view of evolution, trying to consciously shape how your children will turn out is both futile and self-defeating.

There is another possibly apocryphal story about the philosopher Jerry Fodor (he's the Yogi Berra of philosophy). Someone asked what his stream of consciousness was like as he wrote philosophy. His reply was that it mostly said, "Come on, Jerry, you can do it, Jerry, keep going, Jerry.

People sup together, play together, travel together, but they do not think together.

Descartes concludes that the only certain basis for knowledge is the principle, cogito ergo sum, and he treats the existence and nature of a mind-independent world as an inference from a prior awareness of his own consciousness and its contents. Moreover, he holds that our most certain ideas are abstract and innate, whereas ideas based on perception are subject to doubt and uncertainty.

While meditating we are simply seeing what the mind has been doing all along.

We were celebrating transcendental consciousness, the beauty of the universe, the beauty of being.

The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.

To gain your own voice, forget about having it heard. Become a saint of your own province and your own consciousness.

People believe what they want to believe. They see no evil because they don't want to. But evil is out there.

The thing is, I've been thinking a lot about before . The time before the first thing I remember. Before didn't hurt. I don't think this will hurt, either. My ending, I mean. I'll just 'not be' again, I suppose.

Sometimes the biggest lies we tell are to ourselves.

Here's the thing about lying: a part of you has to mean it—even if it is a tiny, sinister, shred that only lives in the blackest, darkest parts of your mind. You have to want it to be true.

Antes de dormirme del todo, me di cuenta de que me estaba tapando con una colcha. Después se fue con el cenicero en la mano y me besó en la sien. De lo que sí me arrepiento fue de haberme puesto de lado, fíjate, porque pensé que, si hubiera estado boca arriba, me habría besado en los labios

sabía que no era exactamente así, aquello no era verdad, pero la verdad también desaparecía, y yo seguía pensando lo mismo, y era agradable, me sentía alguien, segura, en momentos como ése, era curioso...

Un buen obrero es, por definición, un hombre inteligente, y nueve de cada diez obreros son trabajadores con conciencia política

Lo que diferencia al hombre del animal es que el hombre es un heredero y no un mero descendiente. José Ortega y Gasset

One can only see what one observes, one observes only things which are already in the mind.