Quotes About Consciousness

You're bound by the frame. You've become so engrossed in the movie of your life that you have forgotten that you're sitting there watching.

Life is a series of dreams, a series of interlocking awarenesses.

It is the mind that weaves the dream of life, it convinces us that what we see is what is apparent and what is real, and that there's nothing else outside of our perception.

The dream of life is really an illusion, and everybody lives in the reality he or she creates - a virtual reality that is only true for the one who creates it.

All that is required is to know this. For you are the creator of your reality, and life can show up no other way for you than that way in which you think it will.

Life is not a journey you want to make on autopilot.

Usually the threat of death makes people a lot more aware of their lives.

Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.

Drop the fear. Fear was taken up by you in your childhood, unconsciously. Now consciously drop it and be mature. Then the life can be a light which goes on deepening as you go on growing.

You live your life at the time you live it -- you don't have much of an overview when what's happening to you is still happening.

This must be what it means to be a ghost, being certain that life exists, because your four senses say so, and yet unable to see it.

The experience of Eternity right here and now, is the function of life.

Today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.

To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life.

Look at the problems in your life. Ask yourself, 'What kind of thoughts am I having that create this?'

When I talk about doing affirmations, I mean consciously choosing words that will either help eliminate something from your life or help create something new in your life.

Consciousness in the individual is that area where the totality of life is located.

The future cannot be determined. It can only be experienced as it occurring. Life doesn't know what it will be until it notices what it has become.

When we keep choosing between right and wrong. We spend our energy sorting life rather than living it.

If you are not present, you are unable to have an effect on that unique, fleeting moment called now that truly determines what happens next. Now is the only creative moment we have. Fear was causing me to project my past into my future, never allowing me to engage in the now. Worry and fear are thieves that rob us of our ability to change.

How did our thoughts affect our reality and interact with the world on a quantum level?

The Stetson passage is an allusion to Frazer theory in The Golden Bough that religion originated as agricultural engineering. Through a grotesque process of literalization, all of the dying gods and heroes in The Golden Bough, along with Christ and the Fisher King, are transferred from mythic to modern consciousness ( Frazer himself was an unabashed positivist) to be made explicable in scientific terms as fertilizer.

Grant, Lord, that we might overcome our enemies by transforming them into friends. Make them and make us conscious of those deep inward reaches whereby every heart is rooted in our world's deep common life.

And yet he had loved her. A Bookish girl heedless of her beauty, unconscious of her effect. She'd been prepared to live her life alone but from the moment he'd known her he'd needed her.