Quotes About Consciousness

Mere suffering exists, but no sufferer is found; The deed are, but no doer is found.

There is no unmoving mover behind the movement. It is only movement. It is not correct to say that life is moving, but life is movement itself. Life and movement are not two different things. In other words, there is no thinker behind the thought. Thought itself is the thinker. If you remove the thought, there is no thinker to be found. Here we cannot fail to notice how this Buddhist view is diametrically opposed to the Cartesian cogito ergo sum: 'I think, therefore I am.

What we call life … is the combination of the Five Aggregates … These are constantly changing; they do not remain the same for two consecutive moments. … If we can understand that in this life we can continue without a permanent, unchanging substance like Self or Soul, why can't we understand that these forces themselves can continue without a Self or Soul behind them after the non-functioning of the body?

It is the vague feeling 'I AM' that creates the idea of self which has no corresponding reality, and to see this truth is to realize Nirvana[.]

I lie and am lied to, but the result of my lie is mental leaps, memory, knowledge.

You and I are not what we eat; we are what we think.

There are so many poetic styles and ways to write a poem. I can hardly say that I've consciously chosen a particular style, but more that I've just found myself writing and then started accumulating reasons why I was writing the way I was.

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

Jeremiah is frequently misunderstood as a doomsday spokesman or a pitiful man who had a grudge and sat around crying; but his public and personal grief was for another reason and served another purpose. Jeremiah embodies the alternative consciousness of Moses in the face of the denying king.9 He grieves the grief of Judah because he knows what the king refuses to know.

The task of prophetic ministry is to nurture, nourish, and evoke a consciousness and perception alternative to the consciousness and perception of the dominant culture around us.2

The task of prophetic ministry is to nurture, nourish, and evoke a consciousness and perception alternative to the consciousness and perception of the dominant culture around us.

Christians are sensitive. We want to be liked and accepted. It is pleasant to be agreeable and peaceful. As God's grace quickens in us a love for men, a sense of courtesy is heightened, a longing for gentleness and peace is increased. But with all of this our Lord's honor is at issue in the discussion. You must consciously choose words that pain your own social consciousness and love of peace. Self has to be crucified. Two hearts are broken, not merely one.

One man had been completely submerged in the boiling liquid which inundated the cabin, and in his removal to the deck, the skin had separated from the entire surface of his body. The unfortunate wretch was literally boiled alive, yet although his flesh parted from his bones, and his agonies were most intense, he survived and retained all his consciousness for several hours.

Terror skittered around the fringes of his consciousness on fast rodent feet.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought.

All of us have so much more time than we use well. How many hours in a life are spent in a way of which one might be proud, looking back?

Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.

Only the consciousness of a purpose that is greater than any man can seed and fortify the souls of men

In some measure, stimuli from the outside, especially when they are printed or spoken words, evoke some part of a system of stereotypes, so that the actual sensation and the preconception occupy consciousness at the same time. The two are blended, much as if we looked at red through blue glasses and saw green.

Why not ask yourself whether your other dreams are real? You go on trips and undergo the strangest experiences every night. How do you know they only take place in your mind?

Es kommt nicht darauf an, was auf der Bühne geschieht. Sondern darauf, was das Unsichtbare Theater in deinem Kopf veranstaltet.

A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.

insistirá una y otra vez en que su sabiduría no es otra cosa que la conciencia de sus propios límites.

Un pensamiento sin conciencia de sus limitaciones es un pensamiento incompleto. Mantener una actitud crítica saludable significa no aceptar ideas o doctrinas sin haberlas sometido antes a un análisis cuidadoso donde se pueda evaluar su verdad, su falsedad o las dudas que de ellas surgen. Las personas que no le temen a la crítica son inconformistas y poseen la dosis de incredulidad necesaria para acceder a todo tipo de información sin escandalizarse ni ofenderse.