Quotes About Consciousness

If we were to excavate the deepest recesses of our consciousness, we would discover many beliefs about ourselves that are simply not true and that may never have been true...We may have defined ourselves in a limiting way based on our history and the opinion of others...and we stay stuck there because we fail to recognize there is a door right in front of us providing another opportunity to redefine who we are today.

Now I'm not pro-drug. They obviously cause a lot of damage. But I am pro-logic, and you're never going to stop the human need for release through altered consciousness. The government could take away all the drugs in the world and people would spin around on their lawn until they fell down and saw God.

Once in a while there was a volcanic outburst into the consciousness, when some new idea, the solution to a problem, burbled up flecked with the detritus of its birth - pride, rage, ambition, prejudice, all the freight of human creativity.

These portals of consciousness, and one of them is called me.

Rara vez vemos el mundo tal como es; pero a menudo vemos el mundo tal como somos.

Right Now" is the only moment of truth, for the past gives us an identity while the future holds only the promises, but both "Past" and "Future" are nothing but illusions. So enjoy the present, and especially this moment "Right Now" fully and totally to create better "Past" and wonderful "Future.

Sie sehen immer die Welt, wie Sie sind. Wenn Sie etwas nicht gefällt, ist es wahrscheinlich, weil es den Teil von dir, dass Ihnen am wenigsten repräsentiert. Das ist genau das, warum die Welt zu verstehen, müssen Sie zuerst von ihr weg, und dann suchen Sie tiefer in, tief in sich selbst.

To be in sync with the real world, we must grow inside out, and our only true guide during our growth is our own mind guiding us on the path to enlightenment.

We seldom see the world as it is; but we often see the world as we are.

You always see the world as you are. If you don't like something, it's probably because it represents the part of you that you dislike most. If you want to understand the world, you must first turn away from her, and then look deep inside within your Self - to be in sync with the world, and to be in perfect harmony with life.

When educators lack critical consciousness about race/racism, have not adequately dealt with their own racial hang-ups, and are uncomfortable and unprepared to deal with difficult dialogues on race, they become part of the race talk problem (Bell, 2003; Pollock, 2004).

Several important conclusions can be drawn from these studies. First, we have made considerable progress in combating conscious forms of bias and stereotyping.

seems to be that at some level of consciousness, Whites realize that they have lived lies of self-deception and that they do hold responsibility for the current oppression of people of color in the United States, whether through action or inaction (Helms, 1992; Spanierman, Poteat, Beer & Armstrong, 2006; Tatum, 1992).

one of the greatest barriers to race talk for many White Americans: the invisibility of their Whiteness (Bell, 2003; Helms, 1992; Spanierman, Poteat, Beer, & Armstrong, 2006; Tatum, 1992; Todd & Abrams, 2011).

The issue is not whether one is unbiased, but how aware, honest, and open their White counterparts are to their prejudices and stereotypes, and whether these biases will interfere with the White person's ability to relate to persons of color.

I wonder, skeleton, would you still be alive? Would you be conscious if you were dice, or keys on a piano?" "Always wanted a life in music," Skulduggery mumbled.

So I've been in a coma for... how long?" "A year and a half." Melancholia's eyes widened. "What? A year and a half? What the hell?

Good and evil are so close as to be chained together in the soul." Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1941)

Fulfillment is structured in achievement, Achievement is structured in action, Action is structured in thinking, Thinking is structured in knowledge, Knowledge is structured in consciousness

I can feel this heart inside me and I conclude it exists. I can touch this world and I also conclude that it exists. All my knowledge ends at this point. The rest is hypothesis.

When you are ignorant about something, to know that you are ignorant about it - that is knowledge.

Let us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.

Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.

An image of the earth, its landscapes, directly affects people. The beauty of the earth creates enormous emotion, and through that emotion, you can transmit knowledge and raise consciousness