Quotes About Consciousness

El yo soñado que dormía no notaba la presencia de Halum, pero el yo soñado que observaba la percibía, y yo, el verdadero soñador, los percibía a los dos, y también percibía que todo lo que estaba viendo me llegaba en una visión.

Choosing what we think rather than reaction to our emotions.

It's what is in your head that determines what is in your hands.

what we think rather than reacting to our emotions.

what you think is real becomes your reality.

Whatever we think is real becomes reality, in most cases.

Their reality blinds them to other realities.

people really do shape their lives through their thoughts.

We knew the journey had little to do with the world outside of us, and everything to do with the realities inside of us.

Padre rico continuó explicando que la vida humana era una batalla entre la ignorancia y la iluminación.

Fear is the original sin," suddenly said a still, small voice away back—back—back of Valancy's consciousness. "Almost all the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something." Valancy stood up. She was still in the clutches of fear, but her soul was her own again. She would not be false to that inner voice.

It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it?

She had a genius for friendship; girl friends she had in plenty; but she had a vague consciousness that masculine friendship might also be a good thing to round out one's conceptions of companionship and furnish broader standpoints of judgement and comparison.

One would not drink of the cup of forgetfulness if one could.

É fácil demais ser mau sem se dar conta disso, não é?

No, Diana, I am not killed, but I think I am rendered unconscious. Where? sobbed Carrie Sloane. Oh, where, Anne?

A penis has never been something that you pick up and put down and put away idly without consideration.

have precious little free will, he was saying. We're too intelligent not to see the right answers.

The way to get from point A to point B is really to be at A.

You may also notice the stillness of the pause between breaths.

It is also sometimes shocking to see what the mind is taken up with, the way it spends its day, perhaps in sharp contrast to what you're actually doing, or to your sense of who you are.

But finally, you're not studying Buddhism. You're studying you.

This process—of appropriating everything as me or mine—is constantly going on and has as its whole basis the existence of a self.

Mindfulness is often likened to a mirror; it simply reflects what is there. It is not a process of thinking; it is preconceptual, before thought. One can be mindful of thought. There is all the difference in the world between thinking and knowing that thought is happening, as thoughts chase each other through the mind and the process is mirrored back to us.