Quotes About Consciousness

Don't you go and dump reality on us like a garbage truck.

Bir düÅŸün. DüÅŸte herkes duvar?n öte yan?na geçiyor çünkü varoluÅŸlar?n? ciddiye alm?yorlar. Ama sen, kafan sürekli kendinle meÅŸgul olduÄŸu için duvar? aÅŸam?yorsun. Bu düÅŸ dosyas? çoktan kapanm??t?r. EÄŸitimsel neredeyse, bana sorarsan.

You can remember without seeing it.

My relationship to reality has been so utterly skewed for so long that I don't even notice it any more. It's just my reality.

Pay attention: what you need to know is usually in front of you. There are no secrets, just things people choose not to notice.

one of the greatest lessons that comes from meditation is that a relaxed curiosity about life and sleepwalking through it are two radically different choices

Whenever an emotion arises in the space of our awareness, it creates a powerful wind that can be either harnessed as wisdom or fixated upon and treated neurotically and destructively.

We only have one wireless connection with the real Internet, and that's our mind. There isn't a single moment in our lives when our mind is not functioning as the basis of all our interactions—not even one. So it makes sense to train ourselves in the skilful operation of this basic interface. This is what meditation is for.

in order to fully awaken, we have to dissolve the false dichotomy between secular and spiritual truths, and start to view ourselves, each other, and the world we share as sacred, 24/7/365.

The study of our habitual conditioning and how habit leads us to react is the study of karma. On

Inhabiting a human nervous system is kind of like living in a house where the doorbell and the burglar alarm make exactly the same sound. Because

The inner world is as real as the outer world. One ought to be conscious of that… These two worlds are fed by each other, you must not neglect one at the expense of the other, must not deem one more important than the other.

Quando pensi che l'altro non ti consideri abbastanza, significa che gli sei legato e per via di questo legame non sei indipendente. Quanto meno ti aspetti, tanto più ricevi. Ciò che attendiamo da un altro, dunque dall'esterno, lo abbiamo inconsciamente dentro di noi. Anziché attenderlo dall'esterno, dobbiamo svilupparlo dentro di noi, acquistandone consapevolezza. L'anima non ha legami temporali, è eterna.

Oh, Lord, let me feel at one with myself. Let me perform a thousand daily tasks with love, but let every one spring from a greater central core of devotion and love.

The Holy Spirit's instruments have no consciousness of His purpose; if they imagine they have, it is a pretty sure token that they are NOT His instruments. Nathaniel Hawthorne

The temptations that use the raw material of good for evil can continue unrecognized for a long time without awareness.

Such insinuated insecurities need to be confronted directly and plainly. It is not possible to drift unconsciously from faith to perdition.

Somehow, though he moves right in front of me, I don't see him; quietly but surely he's active, and I miss it.

Before my illness, I had considered commitment king among virtues. After I was diagnosed, I came to consider consciousness king among virtues. I began to feel that everyone's first responsibility was to be as conscious as possible all the time, especially later in life, especially toward the very end. For one thing, it could help others to understand the end better. That's a responsibility we owe to each other, certainly to the generation to follow.

Consciousness, not commitment, was a better, more accurate, less time-entangled word to

Even though there is something out there that is not the world-for-us, and even though we can name it the world-in-itself, this latter constitutes a horizon for thought, always receding just beyond the bounds of intelligibility.

What Kant refers to as depression is simply this stark realization: that thought is only incidentally human. It would take a later generation of philosophers to derive the conclusion of this: that thought thinks us, not the reverse. Legend

Is there yet another meaning of "black" beyond this? There is, but it is a difficult thought to think, and nearly impossible to know, though it does exist (actually it doesn't exist, though the thought of its not-existing does).

Consciousness is nothing more, he writes, than "a flash of lightning between two eternities of darkness.