Quotes About Consciousness

Our sins are as a ghastly night, And seal with slumbers deep our sight.

At that time of ecstasy there is no thought of others; there is NO THOUGHT. Thither I go and none may lead.

AGAPE of the Christos had spent its force. It laid upon the land as a shroud when once it had been a bright and shining spell of liberation. Under this pall the scorpion bred consciousness in the charnel house of putrefaction. Monsters arose and walked the earth in the guise of living men and women.These are the hypocrites to whom the sermon was delivered.

There is no illusion but consciousness! This consciousness is ever the smiling monument commemorating "Whether you ever really enjoyed Life"!

The human being is a wounded consciousness of truth.

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. You cannot escape the results of your thoughts.

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If the words "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't

If the words "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on. —Terence McKenna

Unconnected consciousness is destruction's keenest tool against the soul.

Of unconnected consciousness is there more to say beyond the clear recognition this is destruction's keenest tool against the soul?

He is free to evade reality, he is free to unfocus his mind and stumble blindly down any road he pleases, but not free to avoid the abyss he refuses to see.

And suddenly I realised that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind of instinct, only I was in a different dimension.

And suddenly I realized that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind of instinct, only I was in a different dimension.

When the eye sees, it simply registers color and shape. All the rest takes place in the mind.

Life keeps on happening and doesn't need us to think about it. It's constantly arising and ceasing every single moment.

The Buddha has no intention of answering the question about higher states of consciousness yet. He first advocates practicing moral conduct as a foundation for spiritual development.

When we bring the past to mind, it is then the present. When we bring the future to mind, that also becomes the present. So what we are doing is not only putting boundaries around three separate selves, but we are also putting boundaries around time and splitting it into three parts as well.

There is no future, there is no past. Everything is now, and we are completely transparent; we have no solidity. We only look as if we had.

It is not that we kill or annihilate something that actually exists; rather, we get rid of a deluded mind-state.

Not unconsciousness, but a ceasing of perception and feeling is experienced.

To be in the present is actually to be in eternity.

Your body lives in the past, your mind in the future. They come together in the present when you practise Yoga.

In Buddhism, consciousness is central because all phenomena are realized to be mere appearances to consciousness that have no independent existence.