Quotes About Consciousness

Be not heedless of the Lord for even the blink of an eye, Lest He direct His attention toward you, and find you unaware.

I lied, therefore I thought.

Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?

When are you going to let yourself descend from your lofty preoccupations, and simply land where you are?

in the world but not of it"...

If you are conscious to yourself that you possess more knowledge upon some subjects than others of your standing, reflect that you have had greater opportunites of seeing the world, and obtaining a knowledge of Mankind than any of your cotemporarys, that you have never wanted a Book, but it has been supplied you, that your whole time has been spent in the company of Men of Literature and Science. How unpardonable would it have been in you, to have been a Blockhead.

The surest way to suppress our ability to understand the meaning of God and the importance of worship is to take things for granted...Indifference to the sublime wonder of living is the root of sin.

The most incomprehensible fact is that we comprehend at all.

is not a thing that lends significance to a moment; it is the moment that lends significance to things.

Freedom does not mean the right to live as we please. It means the power to live spiritually, to rise to a higher level of existence.

How this is possible is, first, by being, literally, several in a single body. "We are twelve in my body. We are packed like sardines." In other words, the being that I am exists each time in several modes—or, let us say, several beings, which, although sometimes mutually exclusive, are nevertheless inside one another.

All the media of modern consciousness—from the printing press to radio and the movies—were used just as readily by authoritarian reactionaries, and then by modern totalitarians, to reduce liberty and enforce conformity as they ever were by libertarians to expand it.

This moving story of a small group of people, driven by a passionate belief in the strict purity of their devotion to the word of God and an equally passionate rejection of worldly authority in favour of a divinely sanctioned life, scarcely registered on the consciousness of England.

When we wants to do something but cannot, that is when we think. When our consciousness awakes up and stretches its arms. That is when we imagine, and plan, and dream about the undone thing.

What the two men shared was the knowledge that they were individuals.

Any day that is not crowned with the Christian being consciously and conspicuously filled with the Holy Spirit is a wasted day. It will be lost for all eternity. At the judgment seat of Christ it will, at best, be counted as wood, hay, and stubble (1 Corinthians 3:12). What golden opportunities we let slip through our fingers because the Spirit is not in control. There has never been a greater day or age to witness for Christ than ours. There is such a need and such a hunger everywhere.

He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.

As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.

It is these empty spaces you have to watch out for, as they flood up with feeling before you even realize what's happened.

I will never die, thought the cake to itself, in even simpler terms, as cakes did not have sophisticated use of language.

When she came back inside, she was gripping a yogurt cup someone had thrown near our side strip of garden. "Plastic doesn't cycle." She shrugged off her coat. "Right? We recycle it, but it can't do anything on its own, and all it can ever do is be itself again. It is the worst kind of reincarnation. Lame! That is so lame! And it's everywhere!" she cried, going to the bathroom to splash water on her face.

Mindfulness is life. Whenever we don't have mindfulness, when we are heedless, it's as if we are dead.

Someone commented: I can observe desire and aversion in my mind, but it's hard to observe delusion. Ajahn Chah replied: You're riding on a horse and asking where the horse is?

The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren't there. The answers are there in the morning.