Quotes About Consciousness

Ono Å¡to ne znamo, to nas i ne brine. A ono Å¡to ne vidimo to i ne postoji?

Strogo uzevši, oko je samo produžena alatka našeg istinskog vizualnog osjetilnog organa - mozga, koji nikada ne dopušta da promatramo stvarnost, nego samo njezinu interpretaciju.

Despite the imminence of her death and even though she had no idea how it would happen, she no longer felt afraid. This must be what Catholics understand by the purifying power of confession. Deep down inside her, in the shadowy world of her consciousness, she'd always sensed that her life would come to a terrible end. It must do, if an entity existed that ensured justice was done

We can't talk about our own health without understanding our place in our environment, because in order to fulfill our potential we have to live in the context of our surroundings. We have to know our place in the ecosystem of which we are a part, and this means living 'consciously': being aware of nature and how it affects us and how we, in turn, affect nature.

You do not see anything when you experience pure consciousness; you become everything.

God is not simply other than our knowledge of Him. It is through God and God alone that we know God. Descartes elaborates this in this way: We know God because he left a mark of Himself in us; this mark is nothing other than our self-consciousness. Knowing God through this mark of His, we know God in every act of reason.

Consciousness of a manifold of subjects lies deeper than any empirical content judged. It is inside the logical concept of judgment, inside the concept of being and truth. As you contradict me, you figure in my consciousness not as an object with determinations. You figure in my consciousness as judgment. Anything I think of you is subordinated to and informed by this conception.

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

Live among men as if God beheld you speak to God as if men were listening.

Live with men as if God saw you converse with God as if men heard you.

And I would rather be alive, be real, be increasingly conscious of all that I am, than move around this planet all mechanical and unconscious.

The work of a lifetime, the process of individuation, is widening of that spotlight so much that everything is illuminated and you are conscious of and can see your All.

You have the power in the present moment to change limiting beliefs and consciously plant the seeds for the future of your choosing.As you change your mind, you change your experience.

It is almost a cliche to speak of the professed atheist who cries out for help to God when he is in mortal danger. The profession of atheism is done by the conscious mind, but the subconscious still believes in God.

We are our own gods and our own demons

This business of 'kidding yourself' worries me. I don't even know how much self-deception I'm involved in. It's hard to get down to the truth about yourself. Any time I feel like I'm finally being honest with myself I wonder if there's some deeper truth I'm shying away from. It amazes me how I can know something and avoid it at the same time.

You make your own reality.

All energy contains consciousness. That one sentence is basically scientific heresy, and in many circles it is religious heresy as well. A recognition of that simple statement would indeed change your world.

I don't want to struggle to describe things anymore. I want to let experience happen without the filter of intellect.

The gnostic is Muslim in that his whole being is surrendered to God; he has no separate individual existence of his own. He is like the birds and the flowers in his yielding to the Creator; like them, like all the elements of the cosmos, he reflects the Divine to his own degree. He reflects it actively, however, they passively; his participation is a conscious one.

Even in the physical world, all that cannot be caught in the modern science is collectively neglected, and its nonexistence "objectively" avowed. It is as if an audience of deaf people at a concert testified together that they did not hear any music and considered the unanimity of their opinion as a proof of its objectivity.

Even in the physical world, all that cannot be caught in the net of modern science is collectively neglected, and its nonexistence "objectively" avowed. It is as if an audience of deaf people at a concert testified together that they did not hear any music and considered the unanimity of their opinion as a proof of its objectivity.

Taking the time to consciously convince yourself to do the right thing has not only saved you time, it has done something else which is far more important to you in another way: it has created a minor success in the development of your personal credibility—a small but important gold star on your report card of self-esteem.

Unless, of course, you stop, really think about it, consciously intervene, override your past programs, and choose the outcome of the vote for yourself.