Quotes About Consciousness

It is your you that bosses you around all day, raises important as well as inane questions, beats you up emotionally on occasion,

MEDITATION - Nothing Without Consciousness?

Mindfullness is an invention by the modern world.

The spirit is smothered, as it were, by ignorance, but so soon as ignorance is destroyed, spirit shine forth, like the sun when released from clouds.

The moment you realize yourself as the dreamer and the world as your own dream, you will attain salvation.

The person who does not see, hear or know anything other than the True Self is all-pervading. As long as you perceive things other than your Self, and consider those entities to be real, you will remain limited and finite, not infinite and eternal.

Jíj bent je leven. Dus je leven is waar je bent.

Vivo sin vivir en mí... muero porque no muero. (I live without really being alive... I die because I am not dying.)

Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.

Uno necesita un presente, para no tener que pensar en el pasado.

We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking.

Feminist consciousness can be thought of as consciousness of the violence and power concealed under the languages of civility, happiness, and love, rather than simply or only consciousness of gender as a site of restriction of possibility. You can venture into the secret places of pain by recalling something. You can cause unhappiness by noticing something. And if you can cause unhappiness by noticing something, you realize that the world you are in is not the world you thought you were in.

Consider the possibility,'" I said, quoting Silette, "'that what we perceive as the future has already happened, and intuition is only a very good memory.

Books exist for me not as physical entities with pages and binding, but in the province of my mind.

I lived too much in my head instead of the real world.

writes Madeleine L'Engle, "in kairos we are completely un-self-conscious and yet paradoxically far more real than we can ever be when we are constantly checking our watches for chronological time."10

The best thing you can do for your fellow, next to rousing his conscience, is—not to give him things to think about, but to wake things up that are in him; or say, to make him think things for himself.

Sand was dribbling out of the bag of her attention, faster and faster.

Important moments like this are time to reflect. To remind us, sometimes, that it's not only important what you wear, but it's also important to be aware.

Our universe is not a 'was' or a 'will be' system. It is an 'is' system vibrating within the 'now' measurement of time.

When we're identified with Awareness, we're no longer living in a world of polarities. Everything is present at the same time.

For me, time is the greatest mystery of all. The fact is that we're dreaming all the time. That's what really gets me. We have a fathomless lake of unconsciousness just beneath our skulls.

I enjoy spending time with other awakened people and feeling the shared vibration of that, whereas just fun for its own sake might no longer be quite so enticing as it used to be.

I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot.