Quotes About Consciousness

When you sleep, your dream world is as real to you as life, isn't it?

The man who enters Cosmic Consciousness is really a new creature, and all his surroundings "become new" - take on a new face and meaning.

Richard Middleton knew that there was a puzzle; in other words, that the universe is a great mystery; and this consciousness of his is the source of the charm of "The Ghost Ship." I

when our minds are unconsciously in the future, the present disappears; it is simply not available to us. We substitute heading toward our lives for actually living.

The Now is not an ultimate state to be realized but rather a continuum to be lived.

That is, you can't get outside the present to make it an object of thought.

It is for this reason that your ego cannot let you become fully present, for the moment you are, it recedes and there is only awareness, only being. And this scares your ego to death, because it hasn't yet understood its relationship to awareness.

Anxiety develops a hair trigger, ready to go off at stimuli that we don't even notice. Not understanding what made us anxious, the conscious mind searches for an explanation, and often enough creates its own.

But people have no idea what time is. They think it's a line, spinning out from three seconds behind them, then vanishing just as fast into the three seconds of fog just ahead. They can't see that time is one spreading ring wrapped around another, outward and outward until the thinnest skin of Now depends for its being on the enormous mass of everything that has already died.

There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.

Sometimes when you've pulled and pushed at a problem without getting an answer, or tried to grab a too-slippery memory, if you completely dismiss the matter from consciousness, often — when it's least expected — the answer will pop up like toast from the depths of your unconscious toaster. I do it all the time. In fact, that may be why some people call me Shell Scott, the Unconscious Detective.

Nineteenth-century nationalism established what we might call the modern ground-rule for having an identity. You have the strongest identity when you aren't aware you 'have' it; you just are it. That is, you are most yourself when you are least aware of it

I mean here to propound a paradox, that people can actively enter into their own passivity.

What is a ghost? Something dead that seems to be alive. Something dead that doesn't know it's dead.

This dream going on with all of us in it.

I have often lamented that we cannot close our ears with as much ease as we can our eyes.

I have often lamented that we cannot close our ears with as much ease as which we close our eyes.

While the physical scientists of the seventeenth and eighteenth century asked, "Where are we?" in the universe; and the social scientists of the nineteenth century inquired, "Who are we?" in our relationship to nature and the unconscious; we're now at a time of history when the question is "How are we?" in our interconnectedness and interdependence with life. I

Are there any poets that write directly about this? Oneness is typing this, Oneness is reading this. People mention Hafiz and Rumi. Non-Duality Press publishes books of poems by Nicholas Czernin, 'Wasteland Words', and by John Astin, 'This Is Always Enough'.

We really are like fish discussing how to get more in touch with the sea.

Live here, live now, live in this moment.

Then the tempest cleared away, and the blue sky appeared once more. Giauna had regained consciousness, and when she saw Kung lying dead beside her she said amid sobs: "He died for my sake! Why should I continue to live?" A-Sung also came out, and together they carried him into the cave. Giauna told A-Sung to hold his head while her brother opened his mouth. She herself took hold of his chin, and brought out her little red pellet. She pressed it against his lips with

being conscious of the fuel-burning activities that you engage in every day is good for you.

He knew that the moment he allowed what his life meant to enter fully into his consciousness, he would either kill himself or someone else. So he denied himself and acted tough.