Quotes About Consciousness

We have become automatons who live under the illusion of being self-willing individuals.

El amor es una actividad; si amo, estoy en un constante estado de preocupación activa por la persona amada, pero no sólo por ella. Porque seré incapaz de relacionarme activamente con la persona amada si soy perezoso, si no estoy en un constante estado de conciencia, alerta y actividad.

The act of disobedience set Adam and Eve free and opened their eyes. They recognized each other as strangers and the world outside them as strange and even hostile. Their act of disobedience broke the primary bond with nature and made them individuals. "Original sin," far from corrupting man, set him free; it was the beginning of history. Man had to leave the Garden of Eden in order to learn to rely on his own powers and to become fully human.

Ä°nsanoÄŸlunun bilinçlilik için ödediÄŸi bedel, güvensizliktir. Bu güvensizliÄŸi kald?rabilmek için, insansal koÅŸulun fark?nda olmak ve onu kabullenmek, baÅŸar?ya ulaÅŸaca?? garantisinden yoksun olmas?na kar??n, baÅŸar?s?zl??a ulaÅŸmayaca??n? ummak durumundad?r. Kesinlikten yoksundur, emin deÄŸildir; bir tek kesin öngörüde bulunabilir: ÖleceÄŸim.

Si uno está concentrado, poco importa qué está haciendo; las cosas importantes, tanto como las insignificantes, toman una nueva dimensión de la realidad, porque están llenas de la propia atención.

Das 'falsche Bewusstsein', das heißt ein entstelltes Bild der Wirklichkeit, schwächt den Menschen. Mit der Wirklichkeit in Kontakt zu kommen, sich ein richtiges Bild von ihr zu machen, stärkt ihn.

Bewussteren war der wichtigste Faktor in Freuds Therapie. Wenn es - das war die Ansicht Freuds - dem Patienten gelingt, den fiktiven Charakter seiner bewussten Ideen einzusehen, wen er die Realität hinter diesen Ideen zu erfassen vermag, wenn er sich das Unbewusste bewusst machen kann, dann wird er auch die Kraft gewinnen, sich von den Irrationalität zu befreien und sich selbst zu wandeln.

Wer das Phänomen des Unbewussten nicht kennt, ist überzeugt, die Wahrheit zu sagen, wenn er das sagt, was er weiß.

A person even if he is subjectively sincere, may frequently be driven unconsciously by a motive that is different from the one he believes himself to be driven by

Nothing is the mirror in which you see the world.

Little by little things began to assume a new aspect. The sense of insecurity vanished, words came of themselves, I was no longer so painfully conscious of everything I said. I drank on and felt the great soft wave approach and embrace me; the dark hour began to fill with pictures and stealthily the noiseless procession of dreams appeared again superimposed on the dreary, grey landscape of existence.

Night is nature's protest against the leprosy of civilization, Gottfried. No decent man can withstand it for long. He begins to notice that he has been turned out of the silent company of the trees, the animals, the stars, and unconscious life.

he begins to notice that he has been turned out of the silent company of the trees, the animals, the stars, and the unconscious life.

ÄŒlovÄ›k nedÄ›lá vždycky, co je správné, synu, Ã…â"¢ekl. Dokonce ani když to ví. V tom nÄ›kdy bývá kouzlo života. ChápeÅ¡?

the invisible storehouse in nothingness, called memory.

TÉ™kcÉ™ onu görürdü vÉ™ bilirdi ki, onu belÉ™ sirli-soraql? elÉ™yÉ™n özünün vurÄŸun könlüdür. Bilirdi ki, bundan da q???ng,bundan da a??ll?, bundan da saf üzlÉ™r var. Ancaq onu da bilirdi ki, baÅŸqa üz yox,mÉ™hz bu üz onun qÉ™lbinÉ™ hakim kÉ™silib. Bu hakimliyi dÉ™ ona özü vermiÅŸdi!

Life was something too great, and death also had something too great about it; they were not to be played with. Having courage was a different thing from having no fear; courage was consciousness of danger, fearlessness mere ignorance.

Dažbr?d cilv?ks pavisam aizmirst, ka vi?š dz?vo. - Es gan to arvien apzinos. Tikai nezinu l?g?, ko ar to ies?kt.

The average ego, the average individual, remains fixed in the group, although in the course of development he is compelled to give up the original security of the unconscious, to evolve a conscious system, and to take upon himself all the complications and sufferings which such development entails.

Again, just as the digestive system decomposes food into its basic elements, so consciousness breaks up the great archetype into archetypal groups and symbols which can later be assimilated as split-off attributes and qualities by the perceptive and organizing powers of the conscious mind.

in Gnosticism, the way of salvation lies in heightening consciousness and returning to the transcendent spirit, with loss of the unconscious side; whereas uroboric salvation through the Great Mother demands the abandonment of the conscious principle and a homecoming to the unconscious.

The hero is an ego hero; that is, he represents the struggles of consciousness and the ego against the unconscious. The masculinization and strengthening of the ego, apparent in the hero's martial deeds, enable him to overcome his fear of the dragon and give him courage to face the Terrible Mother—Isis—and her henchman Set.

Uroboric, because it is dominated by the symbol of the circular snake, standing for total nondifferentiation, everything issuing from everything and again entering into everything, depending on everything, and connecting with everything; pleromatic, because the ego germ still dwells in the pleroma, in the "fullness" of the unformed God, and, as consciousness unborn, slumbers in the primordial egg, in the bliss of paradise.

Among primitives, and wherever the conditions are primitive, the conflict between individual consciousness and the collective tendencies of the unconscious is resolved in favor of the collective and at the cost of the individual.