Quotes About Consciousness

The mind work sometimes in life as it does in a dream. It makes substitutions...

En fait, nous créons nos propres prisons. Celles-ci sont toujours à l´exacte dimension du regard que nous posons sur les situations auxquelles nous sommes confrontés.

O importante não é saber como aconteceu, mas, sim, sentir que o que aconteceu foi um evento importante. Esse evento se chama consciência. Tomar consciência foi a grande revolução que Rairu proporcionou às pessoas que estavam no mundo de baixo. Elas não sabiam que havia outra maneira de viver. Quando desejaram partir em busca desse novo mundo, puseram-se a caminho, e muitos conseguiram chegar até em cima, porém, outros não quiseram...

It is only in the philosophy of the seminar room that serious doubts are raised as to weather or not dogs and cats and other animals have consciousness. We all know how aware they are of their surroundings... and of us... they leave no doubt when they are in pain...

it is no longer a question of cutting off the senses, desires, and passions; on the contrary, it is a question of mounting these high-spirited, steedlike messengers in full consciousness so that they may carry us rapidly to a continuous presence to the world.

a single instant of total presence was worth the reading of all the texts, all the poets, all the philosophers.

There is neither transcendence nor purification.

What would be the worth of a body whose marvelous functionings were not operating? How would consciousness spherically unfold itself within a frozen form not tending toward natural fluidity?

This is the battle of impulsiveness against spontaneity. Impulsiveness is brutal and destructive, because it is unconscious of the other and of the world. Spontaneity is full of grace, for it is granted immediately through consciousness to the reality of the environment.

when our desire occupies all of space the absence of one object goes totally unnoticed, because the flow of our awareness remains free to come into contact with thousands of others.

In short, to empty the mind means 'to polish the mirror', thereby permitting clear reflections of external phenomena and spontaneous insights into the true nature of reality.

Que des livres puissent à ce point bouleverser notre conscience et laisser le monde aller au pire, voilà de quoi rester muet.

Parfois, c'est l'humilité qui commande notre silence. Pas la glorieuse humilité des analystes professionnels, mais la conscience intime, solitaire, presque douloureuse, que cette lecture-ci, que cet auteur-là, viennent, comme on dit, de « changer ma vie » !

Que unos libros puedan alterar hasta tal punto nuestra conciencia y dejar que el mundo siga de mal en peor, es algo que deja sin palabras.

I realized that most thoughts are impersonal happenings, like self-assembling machines. Unless we train ourselves, the thoughts passing through our mind have little involvement with our will. It is strange to realize that even our own thoughts pass by like scenery out the window of a bus, a bus we took by accident while trying to get somewhere else.

The origin of human consciousness as well as the mystical experience may have been linked to humanity's use of visionary plants. In the Rig Veda, one of the earliest collections of Vedic Sanskrit hymns from India, there is frequent mention of a plant called soma, which, when drunk, produced marvellous seemingly entheogenic effects.

Being prepared to receive what thought is not prepared to think is what deserves the name of thinking.

Carl Jung wrote: "People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls.

Once one has experienced emptiness, he is not likely to fall back to egoic thinking, unless he has an impulse to ignorance.

He saw thinking as a form of intoxication.

the modern world, the artist took over the role of the shaman. To enforce one particular mode of consciousness, modern humanity forfeited all direct contact with its nonhuman shadows.

Once you learn to discern the voice of Mother Culture humming in the background, telling her story over and over again to the people of your culture, you'll never stop being conscious of it. Wherever you go for the rest of your life, you'll be tempted to say to the people around you, "how can you listen to this stuff and not recognize it for what it is?

No two people have exactly the same view of the world. Therefore, the most important science of all is the science of perception and consciousness, which holds the key to all other sciences and which has always been of paramount importance in the traditions of the Orient.

Spiritual masters claim that the insights obtained from the 'original mind' in deep meditation cannot be conveyed in terms of rational thought and language, which are products of an entirely different, much narrower mode of consciousness. Only through persistent personal practice may one come to experience the awareness of 'original mind' and tap the vast trove of primordial wisdom and spiritual insight it holds.