Quotes About Consciousness

Even a cricket knows the difference between a man and an angel; For a man looks not at the ground whereon he walks, he crushes many a life; While the passing of an angel leaves all the world a-thrill.

Is recycling to do with global warming? Need you ask? Well, I only ask because we've been recycling for twenty years or so, and no one was talking about global warming back then.

You have thoughts, but you are not your thoughts—and they definitely don't have to run the show. You

Principle I: We Are Either Now Here or Nowhere

I have no patience for anyone who enjoys meat but moans about slaughterhouses, who wears cheap clothes but deplores sweatshops, who weeps about climate change from behind the wheel of an SUV or from the window seat of an airplane.

When we make a conscious effort to be our best selves and to set aside our differences, we encourage our loved ones to do the same. The reward is lasting, loving relationships.

Loneliness is one of the bugbears of mankind. With some people, it is a constant source of unhappiness. They make plans, sometimes exceedingly complex, to keep it at bay. They think that it lies outside. It really lies within their own consciousness.

No culture has yet solved the dilemma each has faced with the growth of a conscious mind: how to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in all life, when one finds darkness not only in one's own culture but within oneself.

That last voice in his head. It hadn't been Billy's. It was his own.

I usually tug my helmet's brim once, then push it back up into position, but I'm not wearing a helmet. I'm embarrassed to find myself miming the action through sheer muscle memory.

Jazz opened his eyes. Conner opened her eyes. Howie opened his eyes.

When I'm with other people, I usually don't think about it. Sometimes, it catches me off-guard, but I usually don't. When I'm alone, it's all I can think about.

to a person zoning out- "your display is on screen saver

The death of God left the angels in a strange position. They were overtaken suddenly by a fundamental question. One can attempt to imagine the moment. How did they look at the instant the question invaded them, flooding the angelic consciousness, taking hold with terrifying force? The question was, "What are angels?" New to questioning, unaccustomed to terror, unskilled in aloneness, the angels (we assume) fell into despair.

In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.

We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.

The less the mind understands and the more things it perceives, the greater its power of feigning is; and the more things it understands, the more that power is diminished.

We feel and know that we are eternal.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

The idea, which constitutes the actual being of the human mind, is not simple, but compounded of a great number of ideas.

El alma humana, cuantas veces percibe las cosas según el orden común de la naturaleza, no tiene conocimiento adecuado ni de sí misma, ni de su cuerpo, ni de los cuerpos exteriores, sino tan solo un conocimiento confuso y mutilado

Do not rely on the outer world as your measuring stick for your own spiritual growth. Rely on your response to the outer world to determine how much you have grown.

If you are capable of perceiving it, you are capable of living it.

Physical reality is only a mirror. And whatever you define it to be; whatever you believe is most true, is what you get. So it's very important to pay attention to those beliefs and those definitions, for it is those and only those that create your physical reality experience.