Quotes About Consciousness

How the flowers were fired and colored into the design. Perhaps this sort of gesture will be lost, perhaps it is a function of consciousness that we don't need in order to survive. Perhaps this piece of evolution makes no sense—our hunger for everyday sorts of visual pleasure—but I don't think so. I think we have survived because we love beauty and because we find each other beautiful. I think it may be our strongest quality.

I relax into a black unconsciousness. I dive in, submerse, and breathe oblivion, my favorite element.

For what is a man, what are we all, but bits of time caught for a moment in a tangle of blood, bones, skin, and brain? She was time. Mauser was time. I am a sorry bit of time myself. We are time's containers. Time pours into us and then pours out again. In between the two pourings we live our destiny.

how does this outer life, apocalypse reported, penetrate my dreams

Si hubiera sido consciente, te habría querido no más, pero mejor.

Cómo había podido ser tan descuidada para vivir sin darse cuenta de que vivía, para extraviar con miserable desidia tantos años.

A veces me embarga la intuición de la profundidad, de que somos más que el mero momento que vivimos y que la carne efímera.

Ignoro de qué sustancia extraordinaria está confeccionada la identidad, pero es un tejido discontinuo que zurcimos a fuerza de voluntad y de memoria.

tengo la creciente sensación de que hay una continuidad en la mente humana; de que, en efecto, existe un inconsciente colectivo que nos entreteje, como si fuéramos cardúmenes de apretados peces que danzan al unísono sin saberlo.

Qué pena que olvidé que podías morirte, que podía perderte. Si hubiera sido consciente, te habría querido no más, pero mejor.

de nosotros mismos hay muchísimo cuento: nos mentimos, nos imaginamos, nos engañamos.

Carson McCullers llamaba iluminaciones a esos espasmos premonitorios de aquello que aún no sabes, pero que ya se agolpa en los bordes de tu conciencia.

John Lennon: la vida es eso que sucede mientras nosotros nos ocupamos de otra cosa.

The emphasis on empathy accomplishes several significant goals in view of a posthuman theory of subjectivity. Firstly, it reappraises communication as an evolutionary tool. Secondly, it identifies in emotions, rather than in reason, the key to consciousness.

dozed off with my consciousness slightly ajar.

In the light of this clarification of the finite/infinite distinction, we can see that 'revelatory' action, including whatever events allow us a closer conscious share in infinite agency (in the love of the Trinity, to use the conventional theological phrasing), will be, not an interruption of the finite sequence, but a particular configuration of finite agency such that it communicates more than its own immanent content.

He who is unwilling to trust to the power of thinking cannot, in fact, enlighten himself regarding higher spiritual facts.

These fourteen phases from full moon to new also have their result, and for the Egyptian consciousness this result was achieved through Isis. These fourteen phases are ruled by Isis.

These two thoughts are, first, that behind the visible world there is another, the world invisible, which is hidden from the senses and also from thought that is fettered by these senses; and secondly, that it is possible for man to penetrate into that unseen world by developing certain faculties dormant within him.

But all those who had made themselves comfortable in the physical world experienced this fading away of consciousness in the spiritual world. It was no fairy tale but plain truth, that the initiates in the Eleusinian

The divinity dwelling in man speaks when the soul recognizes itself as an ego." Just as the sentient and intellectual souls live in the outer world, so a third soul-principle is immersed in the divine when the soul becomes conscious of its own nature.

Duchovní vÄ›da v?bec neÃ…â"¢íká: ?lovÄ›k má svou organizací dané meze poznání, nýbrž praví: pro ?lovÄ›ka existují ty svÄ›ty, pro n?ž má orgány vnímání. HovoÃ…â"¢í jen o prostÃ…â"¢edcích, jak do?asné hranice rozÅ¡íÃ…â"¢it.

It is easy to decide what men ought to be; but the student works in the depths, not on the surface.

The more conscious I become that I am born out of the universe, the more deeply I feel the responsibility to develop in myself the forces given to me by a whole universe, the better human being I can become.