Quotes About Consciousness

Quality of life depends on what happens in the space between stimulus and response.

Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil—the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life.

Being is seeing in the human dimension. And what we see is highly interrelated to what we are.

we must look at the lens through which we see the world, as well as at the world we see

Each of us has many, many maps in our head, which can be divided into two main categories: maps of the way things are, or realities, and maps of the way things should be, or values. We interpret everything we experience through these mental maps. We seldom question their accuracy; we're usually even unaware that we have them. We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be.

what we see is highly interrelated to what we are.

You can't become principle-centered without first being aware of your paradigms and understanding how to shift them and align them with principles.

Once we are self-aware, we must choose purposes and principles to live by; otherwise the vacuum will be filled, and we will lose our self-awareness and become like groveling animals who live primarily for survival and propagation.

Because we are, by nature, proactive, if our lives are a function of conditioning and conditions, it is because we have, by conscious decision or by default, chosen to empower those things to control us.

We are not our feelings. We are not our moods. We are not even our thoughts. The very fact that we can think about these things separates us from them and from the animal world.

I began to feel more and more that much of the success literature of the past 50 years was superficial. It was filled with social image consciousness, techniques and quick fixes—with social Band-Aids and aspirin that addressed acute problems and sometimes even appeared to solve them temporarily, but left the underlying chronic problems untouched to fester and resurface time and again.

The more aware we are of our basic paradigms, maps, or assumptions, and the extent to which we have been influenced by our experience, the more we can

We can see a reality that is superseded by his limited perception—a reality that is as critical for us to understand in our daily lives

The more aware we are of our basic paradigms, maps, or assumptions, and the extent to which we have been

As long as you have some idea of what's happening to you, 'real' or 'unreal' doesn't matter.

Are you alive?" "Perhaps. While I have purpose, I move and speak. My eyes behold. Is this life?

La mente es tu propio palacio y puede hacer un infierno del cielo o un cielo del infierno" – John Milton, El paraíso perdido.

To be paralyzed is to feel powerless. Feeling powerless, your life becomes overwhelmed with chaos. Chaos leads to fear . . . fear turns you into a victim. A victim is someone who allows the outside world or their inner thoughts to control their consciousness.

Pretending you aren't going to die is detrimental to your enjoyment of life. It is detrimental in the same way that it would be detrimental for a basketball player to pretend there was no end to the game he was playing. That player would reduce his intensity, adopt a lazy playing style, and, of course, end up not having any fun at all. Without an end, there is no game. Without being conscious of death, you can't be fully aware of the gift of life.

Without an end, there is no game. Without being conscious of death, you can't be fully aware of the gift of life.

Without being conscious of death, you can't be fully aware of the gift of life.

People who race out ahead of life are falling down on the dance floor. They are living in their own future, which is where fear lives. But when you slow down to master this present moment, life gets fearless.

To exclude everything that was not the fight from consciousness was where the real fight was won.

People living deeply," wrote poet and diarist Anaïs Nin, "have no fear of death.