Quotes About Consciousness

Our life is what our thoughts make it. —Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

The more we realize that most of our views of ourselves, of others, and of presumed limits regarding our talents, our health, and our happiness were mindlessly accepted by us at an earlier time in our lives, the more we open up to the realization that these too can change. And all we need do to begin the process is to be mindful.

Second-order mindfulness recognizes that there is no right answer. Decision making is independent of data gathering.

Instead I invite you to consider why you laughed at a joke the last time you did. If the punch line made you realize that the story could be understood in a way other than how you first heard it, you have experienced a moment of mindfulness.

When we notice new things, we become mindful, and mindfulness begets more mindfulness. The more mindful we become, the more we see ourselves as white shirts and the easier it is to find the red spot and remove it. Attending

The way we first take in information (that is, mindfully or mindlessly) determines how we will use it later.

Each of us possesses five fundamental, enthralling maps to the natural world: sight, touch, taste, hearing, smell. As we unravel the threads that bind us to nature, as denizens of data and artifice, amid crowds and clutter, we become miserly with these loyal and exquisite guides, we numb our sensory intelligence. This failure of attention will make orphans of us all.

I was a lowly puddle of plasma, trading "I am alive" for a vague "I tend to exist" and weeping for joy over the sheer revelation.

And ceilings - ceilings! - that had been invisible, up there, of no account, suddenly insisting upon their supreme and deadly importance.

Of course I knew. It was the reason I was no longer comatose after an entire life of sleepwalking.

Quality … has to do with intention.

Il cuore nelle sue gare contro la coscienza, è estroso, avveduto e fantastico quanto un maestro.

No vivir es no sufrir y no saber

There was some rhythm, some ecstasy in this dance of flight that expressed the fact that happiness which touches depths and rises beyond physical confines is as old as consciousness, yet ever renewed, and is like the glorying flight of the birds

We have two abilities that make up our life, one called will and the other understanding. They are distinguishable, but they are created to be one. When they are one, they are called the mind; so they are the human mind and it is there that all the life within us is truly to be found.

El Señor no envía a nadie al infierno, es el mismo espíritu el que se arroja a él.

This I can declare: things that are in heaven are more real than things that are in the world.

Man, before he is being regenerated, does not even know that any internal man exists, much less is he acquainted with its nature and quality.

People are unaware that spirits even exist, let alone that angels are present with them.

Never get depressed when things go wrong. And never be over confident when everything goes fine. Always be at the equilibruim position or state. Do remember, nothing is permanent. In other words, nothing lasts forever. Oh! yes, everything under this planet earth can change or vanish within a twinkle of an eye. Thus, you've got to be conscious of that at all times. Emeasoba George

If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't.

The more we try to wrest ourselves from our ego, the deeper we sink into it.

In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.

Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me.