Quotes About Consciousness

What provokes readers to experience their own profound sense of self?

Magick is the science and art of causing change (in consciousness) to occur in conformity with will, using means not currently understood by traditional Western science . . ." In this case "will" is understood not in terms of the individual's petty wants and desires, but rather as an intention that is in harmony with the fundamental essence of the individual's Higher Self, and also in full accord with natural or cosmic law.

For the practice of yoga to be nourishing and creative, there must be a dialogue between the active, or intentional, mind and the reflective, or receptive, mind. If you are ruled by the active mind, your practice becomes forced and mechanical because you never listen to your body: you treat it like a machine. If you are ruled by the reflective mind, your practice becomes formless and inert, and loses its sense of purpose.

it is often more difficult to remember to be mindful than to be mindful itself. (p. 47)

Only the ignorant would believe that things exist in the way that they appear.

WHEN IT COMES TO SPIRITUALITY, YOU DO WHAT' YOU DO BECAUSE you believe what you believe. Regardless of the importance you consciously place upon it, theology drives and determines your spirituality.

James MacGregor Burns wrote that "the Leader's fundamental act is to induce people to be aware or conscious of what they feel – to feel their true needs so strongly, to define their values so meaningfully, that they can be moved to purposeful action.

As Marion Montgomery, summarizing Etienne Gilson, puts it, "We know, and know that we know, that life and meaning have real existence, though science cannot substantiate that reality because the reality at issue lies in a dimension of immateriality."4

Keep uppermost in your mind that the illusion that you experience is an illusion, that it is surrounding you for the purpose of teaching you. It can only teach you if you become aware of its teachings.

Language] can serve as a medium through which we create new understandings and new realities as we begin to talk about them. In fact, we don't talk about what we see; we see only what we can talk about.

He fainted. Then he came to and remembered what happened and fainted again.

When we're not busy being somewhere else, more often than not what we participate with is our past or future version of ourselves and our life. Instead of seeing how things actually are, we continue to see them as they once were or as we imagine they will be.

Rather, we can regularly ask ourselves these questions: Who am I becoming through this practice? Am I becoming the world in which I wish to live?

Yoga is a technology for arriving in this present moment. It is a means of waking up from our spiritual amnesia, so that we can remember all that we already know. It is a way of remembering our true nature, which is essentially joyful and peaceful.

Our brains construct a world that no one else can see, touch, or hear. Or, as Buddhist teachers sometimes say, "The truth is a pathless land.

We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.

An it harm none, do what ye will.

The higher spiritual planes vibrate the fastest, and the lower material planes vibrate the slowest (which is why matter appears dense and solid).

Life reflects our painful past over and over until we learn another way and consciously heal.

The Abundance Book, by John Randolph Price; The Trick to Money Is Having Some, by Stuart Wilde; and The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity, by Catherine Ponder. These three books are excellent tools for developing a prosperity consciousness so that you can be free of money worries forever.

Remember that when your life doesn't look the way you want it to, you have the power to change that. You have the ability to shape and create your reality, because what you do causes a ripple effect of change across the Universe. Whether or not you realize it, the Universe is reacting to every single step you take. It's viewed as a very deliberate and conscious action on your part. Ask

We always know more than we think we do. The problem is we don't always know what we know.

Writing and reading are the only ways to find your voice. It won't magically burst forth in your poems the next time you sit down to write, or the next; but little by little, as you become aware of more choices and begin to make them -- consciously and unconsciously -- your style will develop.

Killing an animal to make a coat is sin. It wasn't meant to be, and we have no right to do it. A woman gains status when she refuses to see anything killed to be put on her back. Then she's truly beautiful.