Quotes About Consciousness

How could the people around me not see that I'd been spending my day in nineteenth-century Kansas, or in the pit of a giant peach? It was like I was the only one living in the real world, and they were skating blindly over an opaque surface above me.

Marion Woodman—the great Jungian analyst and author—says that we come to the mythic Crossroads during "moments in our lives where the unconscious crosses consciousness; where the eternal crosses the transitory; where a higher will demands the surrender of our egos.

Rumi speaks of the Open Secret. He says that each one of us is trying to hide a secret—not a big bad secret, but a more subtle and pervasive one.

The Persian poet Rumi says, The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep. You must ask for what you really want. Don't go back to sleep. People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch. The door is round and open. Don't go back to sleep. I

where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves.

What ensued will go down in the record of my heart as one of those rare times in life when you finally rest—when you put down the burden of striving and a sense of well-being spreads like honey into every corner of your consciousness. There was nowhere else to go, nothing to do, no one to be—just now, just this precious day, these shared breaths with a friend.

When we practice dying, we are learning to identify less with Ego and more with Soul. —RAM DASS

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep. You must ask for what you really want. Don't go back to sleep. People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch. The door is round and open. Don't go back to sleep.

No problem can be solved from the same consciousness that created it. —ALBERT EINSTEIN

Thus every quarter-hour it puts the taste of death in my mouth, and shows me, but not gently, how I go whoring after oblivion.

Qué va a ocurrir ahora? Nada. Pues todo ha ocurrido ya. El tiempo entero es ahora, y el tiempo no puede ofrecer nada mejor. Nada puede ser más ahora que ahora, y antes de ahora nada era. No hay hechos menores en la vida, sólo existe un hecho, éste, único y colosal.

I see." I didn't see, though. How do we ever see something about our own self?

People mostly did not know enough when they were living life that they were living it.

we kind of know who we are, without knowing it.

If you can't figure out something... don't watch what you think, watch what you do.

Whenever I don't know what to do, I watch what I am doing.

love was not to be tossed away carelessly, as if it were a tart on a platter with others that got passed around again. No, if love was available, one chose it, or didn't choose it. And if her platter had been full with the goodness of Henry and she had found it burdensome, had flicked it off crumbs at a time, it was because she had not known what one should know: that day after day was unconsciously squandered.

We are all in lockdown, all the time. We just don't know it, that's all.

We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature.

Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.

Sometimes," he sighed, "I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see.

Like the boy from the expensive prep school who becomes a drug dealer, or the evangelist preacher who steals from his congregation, Augustine had discovered that simply knowing right from wrong was not enough. What's needed is a deeper emotional commitment to rightness and truth. Augustine saw it coming not from our reason or from our conscious will, which bears the stain of Adam, but from our faith.

Ik weet niets van alchemie, maar ik zeg dit: zij zijn op de verkeerde weg. Het tastbare laat zich alleen door het ontastbare vormen. De werkelijkheid laat zich door niets veranderen dan door de geest. Om de dingen anders te maken hoef je ze niet aan te raken, je moet ze alleen anders zien.

Nothing is worse in prison than the consciousness of one's innocenc; it prevents acclimatizatin and undermines one's morale...