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Quotes About Consciousness

Because agreement and disagreement have to do with words and concepts and theories. They don't have anything to do with truth. Truth is never expressed in words. Truth is sighted suddenly, as a result of a certain attitude.
~ Anthony de Mello
The content of your awareness is less important than the quality of the awareness
~ Anthony de Mello
Your attitude should be: "I want to be aware, I want to be in touch with whatever is and let whatever happens happen; if I'm awake, fine, and if I'm asleep, fine.
~ Anthony de Mello
Who decides what will finally make its way to your conscious mind from all the material that is pouring in from the world? Three decisive filters: first your attachments, second your beliefs and third your fears.
~ Anthony de Mello
The fact is that you're surrounded by God and you don't see God, because you "know" about God. The final barrier to the vision of God is your God concept.
~ Anthony de Mello
It is enough for you to be watchful and awake. For in this state your eyes will see the Savior.
~ Anthony de Mello
Most people don't live aware lives. They live mechanical lives, mechanical thoughts—generally somebody else's—mechanical emotions, mechanical actions, mechanical reactions. As you begin to understand this, you stop making demands on yourself, you stop having expectations of yourself, you stop pushing yourself, and you begin to understand yourself.
~ Anthony de Mello
If you aren't consciously aware, you're vulnerable to either being brainwashed or being influenced by forces within you that you have no awareness of at all.
~ Anthony de Mello
Look at it this way: You see persons and things not as they are but as you are. If you wish to see them as they are you must attend to your attachments and the fears that your attachments generate.
~ Anthony de Mello
Ng??i ta mu?n bi?t má»™t ng??i th?c t?nh s? như th? nào, nhưng b?n ch? bi?t Ä'i?u Ä'ó má»™t khi b?n th?c t?nh.
~ Anthony de Mello
Ng??i ta Ä'ã nuôi mình s?ng b?ng nh?ng ngôn t? rá»—ng tu?ch Ä'úng hÆ¡n là s?ng vá»›i thá»±c t?i.
~ Anthony de Mello
Bi?t bao ng??i Ä'ã b? c? ??i không ph?i ?? ?n thá»±c ph?m mà là ?n thá»±c Ä'Æ¡n! Má»™t thá»±c Ä'Æ¡n ch? là sá»± ch? d?n v? má»™t cái gì Ä'ang có s?n. B?n hãy ?n cho ???c món bít t?t, ??ng ?n má»› danh t?.
~ Anthony de Mello
Cómo liberarse de un apego? Muchos suelen intentarlo por medio de la renuncia. Pero renunciar a unos cuantos compases de la sinfonía, hacerlos desaparecer de la conciencia, origina precisamente la misma clase de violencia, conflicto e insensibilidad que el aferrarse a ellos. Lo único que se consigue, una vez más, es endurecerse.
~ Anthony de Mello
Lo que necesitas no es renunciar, sino comprender, tomar conciencia. Si tus apegos te han ocasionado sufrimiento y aflicción, ésa es una buena ayuda para comprender. Si
~ Anthony de Mello
You know, a good is never so good as when you have no awareness that you're doing good. You are never so good as when you have no consciousness that you're good.
~ Anthony de Mello
No one can sin in the light of awareness. Sin occurs, not, as we mistakenly think, in malice, but in ignorance. "Father, forgive them for they do not know what they are doing." To see this is to acquire the indiscriminate quality one so admires in the rose, the lamp and the tree.
~ Anthony de Mello
The unaware life is not worth living.
~ Anthony de Mello
To shut your eyes is to guess nothing of blindness. Beneath your world of skies and faces and buildings exists a rawer and older world, a place where surface planes disintegrate and sounds ribbon in shoals through the air.
~ Anthony Doerr
Abrid los ojos y observad todo lo que podáis antes de cerrarlos para siempre»
~ Anthony Doerr
Open your eyes, concludes the man, and see what you can with them before they close forever
~ Anthony Doerr
She takes no notice of him; she seems to know nothing but the morning.
~ Anthony Doerr
DeschideÈ›i ochii È™i vedeÈ›i cu ei tot ce puteÈ›i înainte s? se închid? pe vecie .
~ Anthony Doerr
had felt time settle over itself, imbricate and fix into place the vertigo of future aligning with the present.
~ Anthony Doerr
Every small, concurrent event had slowed down and assumed an excruciating clarity.
~ Anthony Doerr