Quotes About Consciousness

I was deeply impressed by the fact that my life could lose three days without my having any awareness of it. Maybe this was a preview of death: continuous visions and dreams and vague glimpses of reality. Only with death you never wake up: you keep having the weird images forever.

Some people wake up fast. Some people wake up slow. I wake up dead.

mind. Your feelings might be coming

There is a common language, a mode of consciousness, almost a secret sign which can be read and recognized by all who are similarly engaged. Such realizations help fend off the feeling of isolation which can dog the steps of those who seek the Grail.

Used as rocket fuel, sex energy can lift our consciousness to the stars to experience a state of being where love exists in and for itself and has no opposite. On a soul level, this is our natural state.

We are aware of yoga only as a technique to gain physical strength, flexibility, or increased health. And indeed these are potent side effects of the practice. But that is what they are: side effects. To focus on these largely insignificant manifestations is to miss the point entirely.

You cannot become what you already are.

only then did I wake out of the book.

WE DO NOT SEE with our eyes. We see with our brains.

And yet, the second time had blocked out the first time, and I didn't like to think that it hadn't been the first time.

She was conscious of being alive and being present: a clear night, a golden beach, good food.

I like my hand, my blipping brain decides. It's a beautiful hand.

It's decidedly bizzare, when the Worst Thing hppens and you find yourself still conscious, still breathing.

We discover that every state of consciousness arises—and can only arise—within ourselves. One and the same event can provoke one person to laughter, another to tears, while a third remains completely indifferent; all because each is merely projecting outwardly his own inward attitude, and it is only this inward attitude which provokes our response, not the external events themselves.

whatever happens on earth is only a transitory dream picture projected in time and space by ourselves. We only need to take it seriously in so far as it adds to our experience.

They make a king out of the servant and separate themselves from their true being. They force their higher self into exile, into the unconscious. The intellect causes this separation, and by means of concentration exercises and a purposeful effort to become conscious and aware, the intellect can be an instrument by which we get out of this separation and back to our true self.

As if they didn't really know that earthly life is only a journey between being born into the body and leaving it at death, whereas the self is the same in every living creature. Only the body can have a 'lineage'. The level on which a person stands is determined only by the level of his own intelligence.

True existence is only defined by rationality.

Ist das Göttliche vielleicht gar nicht irgendeine abstrakte unbegreifliche "Kraft" namens Gott, sondern unsere einmalige menschliche Fähigkeit, diese Kraft wahrzunehmen?

Don't fool yourself that they don't know. You might not admit that the sun exists, but it exists anyway.

Yes, Miss Ashburn, when at night you had retired from me, I beheld only solitude and imprisonment; and I have waited hours in that forlorn gallery, that I might catch the whisper of your breathings, that the consciousness of being near a friend might restore me to hope, to hilarity, to confidence.

Finding ways to handle the negative feelings requires conscious thought on your part.

I remember you saying how much people knew that they didn't know they knew.

Angelo," he said, and felt the bed rock as Angelo shuddered, caught halfway between REM atonia - the inhibition of movement caused by the shutdown of monoamines in the brain - and waking.