Quotes About Consciousness

We see the results—our thoughts, moods, and actions—but have little conscious access to what actually moves our emotions and compels us to behave in certain ways.

In the end, think of this philosophy in the following terms: Since the beginning of human consciousness, our awareness of death has terrified us. This terror has shaped our beliefs, our religions, our institutions, and so much of our behavior in ways we cannot see or understand. We humans have become the slaves to our fears and our evasions.

You become what you think, your daily thoughts your reality. You create the rich or arid landscape of your brain. If you constrict your thoughts to the same obsessions, to the tiny realm of your smartphone, that is the world that you create for yourself.

So much of our obsessive, internal thought process tends to disconnect us from the world.

The third phase is referred to as the autonomous phase. During this phase, the teacher can perform the strategy with little conscious thought and can, therefore, attend to other issues while performing the strategy.

No somos conscientes de nuestra divinidad; de que somos parte del gran principio de causalidad del universo. No sabemos cuál es nuestra fuerza y sin saberlo no podemos usarla.

In sum, doubling is the psychological means by which one invokes the evil potential of the self. That evil is neither inherent in the self nor foreign to it. To live out the doubling and call forth the evil is a moral choice for which one is responsible, whatever the level of consciousness involved.

Sometimes, pain is all that lets you know you're alive.

Life is a dream from which we all must wake before we can dream again.

Life is a dream, and everyone wakes eventually.

What they did not see, they could ignore; what they did not see was not really there.

Hopper sent to him, but you are here too strongly, and too long from your body.

What is real is not real. What is not real is real. Flesh is a dream, and dreams have flesh.

Todo está… relacionado, Rand —continuó hablando el Ogier, como si no lo hubiera escuchado—. Se trate de seres vivos o no, con capacidad de pensar o sin ella, todo lo que existe está vinculado a una totalidad. El árbol no piensa, pero forma parte de un conjunto, el cual posee… un sentimiento.

If we let ourselves get lost in the shuffle of daily life, as we hurry along we end up knowing more about our shoes from looking down than about the stars—or life's unseen possibilities—from pausing for a few moments here and there to gaze upward and beyond … and adjust our course accordingly. My

You must be present to win. The more you attend to the moments in your life with consciousness, the more aware you will be of the opportunities to move toward what you want, and the more able you will be to direct your actions toward surpassing the best and reaching what's possible.

No somos seres humanos teniendo una experiencia espiritual. Somos seres espirituales teniendo una experiencia humana. –Pierre Tielhard de Chardin, filósofo francés

There's this primary America of freeways and jet flights and TV and movie spectaculars, and people caught up in this primary America seem to go through huge portions of their lives without much consciousness of what immediately surrounds them. The media have convinced them that what's right around them is unimportant. And that's why they're lonely.

Familiarity can blind you

The past cannot remember the past. The future can't generate the future. The cutting edge of this instant right here and now is always nothing less than the totality of everything there is.

Now the stream of our common consciousness seems to be obliterating its own banks, losing its central direction and purpose, flooding the lowlands, disconnecting and isolating the highlands and to no particular purpose other than the wasteful fulfillment of its own internal momentum

The cutting edge of this instant right here and now is always nothing less than the totality of everything there is.

I spit on my glove tips, touch it and can see the sizzle. Not good.

preintellectual awareness. The subliminal self, Poincaré said, looks at a large number of solutions to a problem, but only the interesting ones break into the domain of consciousness.