Quotes About Consciousness

It is what I do now: not go, not see or touch.

And it entered my strictured heart, this morning, slightly, shyly as if warily, untamed, a greater sense of the sweetness and plenty of his ongoing life, unknown to me, unseen by me, unheard by me, untouched by me, but known by others, seen by others, heard, touched.

I had not remembered how deep he held himself inside himself

in a sky whose darkness is fading, that first dream, from which I am now waking.

Each decision we make, each action we take, is born out of an intention.

We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.

The mind thinks thoughts that we don't plan. It's not as if we say, 'At 9:10 I'm going to be filled with self-hatred.

Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what's happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what's happening, stories that get in the way of direct experience. Often such stories treat a fleeting state of mind as if it were our entire and permanent self.

Mindfulness, also called wise attention, helps us see what we're adding to our experiences, not only during meditation sessions but also elsewhere.

If now in some ways I drink too much, it's not that I lack a reverence for the world.

She had not understood that the spirit that animated the body of her father animated the body of everything. Trees and the sky were not a backdrop to life, but they were equally life. She thought, I am the daughter of everything.

Ask only whether you are living your values, not whether the boxes are ticked.

For far too many, pregnancy and birth is still something that happens to them rather than something they set out consciously and joyfully to do themselves.

One can't long stay a secret to the self" -H.W. Marsworth

The Voice There is a voice inside of you That whispers all day long, "I feel this is right for me, I know that this is wrong." No teacher, preacher, parent, friend Or wise man can decide What's right for you--just listen to The voice that speaks inside.

White racism had made my race the limit of my individuality. But now the new black consciousness I was learning from people like Gregory wanted me to voluntarily, even proudly, do the same thing that racism had done: make my race more important than my individuality

We're living in a certain time, and we're aware of it. And that's part of what we're aware of, along with our own personal aches and pains.

In zen, it is a cardinal sin to waste time. To waste time is to squander the here and now, which, if you think about it, is all that we have.

We preach to men as if they were conscious they were dying sinners, they are not; they are having a good time.

that which is eternal within the moment only becomes shallow if spread out in time.

Next time when anger comes just watch it. Don't say, I am angry. Say, Anger is there and I am watching it. And see the difference!

When you are no more, only then for the first time will you be.

From birth to death man is a long sleep, sometimes dreaming with eyes closed, sometimes dreaming with eyes open, but dreaming all the same, all the time.

Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face, until the hour arrives when the mind is ripened; then we behold them, and the time when we saw them not is like a dream.