Quotes About Consciousness

we tend to think of our behavior as largely conscious and willed. To imagine that we are not always in control of what we do is a frightening thought, but in fact it is the reality.

The dragon is a more enduring animal than the pterodactyl. I have never yet met anyone who really believed in a pterodactyl; but every honest person believes in dragons -- down in the back kitchen of his consciousness.

I've come to believe in some kind of afterlife. A return to our true selves, a spirit self. We're

There is funny ha-ha, and there is funny peculiar, and beneath a trapdoor in Kevin's mind is a place where the two blur together, the place of jokes, churning so furiously frequently, when it kicks up a line, he has no idea what it will turn out to be.

Most people seemed to think that you fell asleep and then started dreaming, but as far as Minny could tell, the process was exactly the reverse — you started dreaming and that enabled you to fall asleep.

Cayce told one individual, "Know that thoughts are things, and as their currents run they may become crimes or miracles." (2419-1)

attunement, and spiritual healing, the Cayce readings suggest that as individuals attune themselves to higher states of consciousness, they literally raise their personal vibrations in the process. Not only does this raising of vibrations facilitate personal healing, but it enables the individual to become a catalyst of healing for others. The material provided to the Glad Helpers Prayer Group states that

Know that life is a river or a stream which is constant and each appearance is as a pool that may refresh, in which others may be refreshed . . . make the world a better place because ye have lived in it. Ye can only do that by the hour, by the moment, by the day ye live. For ye are not promised more than one day in the physical consciousness at a time. Use it—don't abuse it! 5392

The only thing holding us back from soul development is self.

Awake. And alone with demons of my own.

tuve la sensación de que estaba viendo dos caras al mismo tiempo, la que conocía, la que era mi primer recuerdo, y otra, una segunda que estaba escondida bajo la superficie

Nothing came out. Suddenly I was hovering, looking down on myself from above.

Seseorang yang tidak memiliki kesadaran, tidak memiliki kebaikan, tidak akan pernah menderita.

Consciousness of the bad is an essential prerequisite to the promotion of the good.

I wonder...if a life lived only in the mind is any less intense? If all the senses are engaged what is lost, but fact?

Gustavo Solivellas dice: Nuestra vida siempre expresa el resultado de nuestros pensamientos dominantes (Søren Kierkegaard)

The gentle sound of her words became the shushing of my blood in my head, and I listened, hovering on the edge of consciousness, bathed in the oblivion of whatever drug they had given me.

Man is a social being with independence, creativity and consciousness.

So that human beings were miraculous indeed - conscious creators, walking this new world like fresh young gods, wielding immense alchemical powers. So that anyone Michel met on Mars he regarded curiously, wondering as he looked at their often innocuous exteriors what kind of new Paracelsus or Isaac of Holland stood before him, and whether they would turn lead to gold, or cause rocks to blossom.

Consciousness is the hard problem.

if you program a purpose into a computer program, does that constitute its will? Does it have free will, if a programmer programmed its purpose?

Most ignorance is by choice, you know, and so ignorance is very telling about what really matters to people.

We think now that love is a kind of giving of attention. It is usually attention given to some other consciousness, but not always; the attention can be to something unconscious, even inanimate. But the attention seems often to be called out by a fellow consciousness. Something about it compels attention, and rewards attention. That attention is what we call love.

It was so hard to imagine that a mind could be gone. All those thoughts that you never tell anyone, all those dreams, all that entire pocket universe: gone. A character unlike any other character, a consciousness. It didn't seem possible.