Quotes About Consciousness

Thou has a thousand eyes and yet not one eye; Thou host a thousand forms and yet not one form.

Vivir no exige tanto el trabajo de la conciencia cuanto la capacidad de hablar, primero, y de soportar siempre.

Unless you're shopping in a store, "new" does not come with a label attached, nor with a price tag.

What some folks might call, "Feeling relaxed and mellow" is NOT Spiritual Enlightenment.

SOPHISTICATED about consciousness and energy? If you're seeking Enlightenment now, protect yourself by developing a more sophisticated kind of discernment about that.

The answers to my questions lie within. There is nothing I can ask that I do not, somewhere within the deep recesses of my soul, know the answer to.

Afterward, Sara didn't really remember falling asleep, still wearing her robe although she meant to get dressed and had had Serafina lay out a pair of jeans and a blouse for her. In any case, she had slept. And there had been dreams -- of the unsettling kind she didn't want to recall.

temporary death experience" (or TDE,

Let her be with her memories. Better that than be aware of this reality.

I have no sense of nationalism, only a cosmic consciousness of belonging to the human family.

To encounter anything fully is to touch its absence… from "Letterbox

Look not back in anger, nor forward in fear But around you in awareness.

If you are late, you are wasting precious moments of another person's life. Moments they can never get back!

To think of myself as a body, to be conscious of myself as a body, is to be conscious of other people's consciousness.

to be conscious of myself is to be aware of myself as a node point in a web of information exchange, which corporately constructs the idea of objects, selves, persons.

We're talking about a reality in which people enter into the experience, the aspiration, the sense of self, of others. And

It is on the inward condition that the outer reality depends.

The truth is, the human condition does not become spiritual; when conditions are ideal, our spiritual nature awakens and blossoms, allowing us to clearly apprehend that we are but using mind and body while the reality of us, our spiritual nature, remains ever what it is. At the innermost core of our being we are individualized (though not independent) units of the omnipresent consciousness of God.

The more spiritually aware we are, the more harmonious and fulfilling are our lives.

Charles Darwin wrote in The Descent of Man, "The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts." The

Self-awareness is a most peculiar trait among animals. Dogs will bark angrily at a mirror because they don't realize they're looking at themselves, and most other animals are similarly clueless when they're subjected to a formal procedure called the mirror test.

I believe that what we call intuition is simply stored and forgotten experiences that the conscious mind somehow can instantaneously retrieve, combine, and process in a way that, superficially at least, seems miraculous or preternatural.

Revolutionary consciousness is collective. Individuals can come to revolutionary conclusions, but it is only when they start to talk to each other about those conclusions and attempt to draw out larger more general truths by looking at all of their experiences and drawing on all of their knowledge that we can talk meaningfully of revolutionary consciousness.

La obra que, deleitando, consiga dar a luz a la mente y palpitaciones al corazón helado, si aviva la conciencia, si mueve a las acciones nobles y generosas, si enciende el entusiasmo por lo bueno, lo bello y lo verdadero, si se indigna contra las deformidades del vicio y las injusticias sociales y hace que nos interesemos por todos los que sufren, decid que es obra elocuente y eminentemente poética.