Quotes About Consciousness

A perception, sudden as blinking, that subject and object are one, will lead to a deeply mysterious understanding; and by this understanding you will awaken to the truth.

The truth about who we really are, beyond all appearances, is knowledge worth seeking.

Just as good and virtue, sin and evil can only be given in vigil. Who sleeps, sleeps; for the asleep there is no sin, just as there is no good, nor virtue. There is only sleep.

To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.

All there really is to do now, is to be in the present Moment.

Outside and above the mind there is the play of a consciousness which is lighted by the higher Truth, but man is not conscious of it and of that he has to be conscious.

We are hidden in ourselves, like a truth hidden in isolated facts. When we know that this One in us is One in all, then our truth is revealed.

The past is gone. The future never arrives. In truth, there is no life outside of this moment!

I teetered between a dazed existence and hyper-awareness. At times, I walked around in a state of confusion, unable to focus on anything, as if I weren't fully alive.

It's not what your reproductive organs do that counts, it's what your mind intends before that moment.

If you have never said "Excuse me" to a parking meter or bashed your shins on a fireplug, you are probably wasting too much valuable reading time.

In other words, woman's consciousness- her membership, as it were, in culture - is evidence in part by the very fact that she accepts her own devaluation and takes culture's point of view.

Woman is not "in reality" any closer to (or further from) nature than man - both have consciousness, both are mortal.

Dreams are not real; but when you are inside a dream, it is real to you.

Online life is about premeditation.

Zane, six, knows that AIBO doesn't have a "real brain and heart," but they are "real enough." AIBO is "kind of alive" because it can function "as if it had a brain and heart.

You can't think about thinking without thinking about something

I notice things.

Solitude does not necessarily mean being alone. It is a state of conscious retreat, a gathering of the self. The capacity for solitude makes relationships with others more authentic. Because you know who you are, you can see others for who they are, not for who you need them to be. So solitude enables richer conversation.

Today the law defines death, with appropriate blurriness, as the cessation of brain function. Though the heart may still throb and the unknowing bone marrow create new cells, no man's history can outlive his brain.

bioengineers but by those who know who we are.

when the human spirit departs, it takes with it the vital stuffing of life. Then, only the inanimate corpus remains, which is the least of all the things that make us human.

Carl Jung said that if you find the psychic wound in an individual or a people, there you also find their path to consciousness. For it is in the healing of our psychic wounds that we come to know ourselves. . . . In the evolution of consciousness, our greatest problem is always our richest opportunity. ROBERT JOHNSON We: Understanding the Psychology of Romantic Love

To deceive oneself is worse than to deceive others." These harsh words pierced me to the core.