Quotes About Consciousness

It's a sorry little fact that we are often as mysterious to ourselves as we are to others.

But the worst was that as time wore on, I became more and more afraid of myself, or perhaps more conscious of the fear I have always had - a fear that within me is some danger I can't name.

Sometimes, I would put down my book and look at the two of them in the light of my reading lamp. I now think I was lucky that I wasn't young. I knew what I might not have known earlier - that my happiness had come. I even told myself to fix the image of my wife and son in my mind while I watched them sleep, and it is still there, a clear picture left by my conscious wish.

She talked as if she were observing her own sentences...

James explores the psychological implications of belief - how a climate of ideas can invade, affect, mingle with, and be used, both consciously and unconsciously, by a person in the throes of passion.

the idea of "extension" makes sense to me because art and the world can't be as easily divided as we sometimes imagine. One comes from the other, and they intermingle in the consciousness we as readers meet on the page. Art can and does make life, as James says, because when we encounter a great work of art if creates feeling, and that feeling in the reader, the viewer, or the listener is finally what the work means.

Surely love has nothing to do with the mind, it is not the product of the mind; love is entirely independent of calculation, of thought.

Love is the omnipresent force of the universe; it unifies energy and consciousness.

Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.

Be drunk with LOVE, for Love is all that exists.

Whatever you know, or don't - only Love is real.

Whether we love, or close our hearts to love, is a mental choice we make, every moment of every day.

Now the best thing is to put attention to your Spirit. If you start putting your attention to Spirit, the sweetness of the Spirit itself will make the whole thing very sweet and beautiful.

If you meditate, sooner or later you will come upon love. If you meditate deeply, sooner or later you will start feeling a tremendous love arising in you that you have never known before.

If you claim to 'love' animals but you eat animal products, you need to think critically about how you understand love.

Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.

When you do not know how to handle yourself, where is the need to produce another life.

The person who makes all cares into one care the care for simply staying present will be cared for by that presence which is creative love.

Wisdom is knowing I am nothing, Love is knowing I am everything, and between the two my life moves.

The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.

Love is a process in which ego is lost and infinity is experienced.

I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue.

You are a being composed of light, love, and intelligence.

There is One Infinite Mind which of necessity includes all that is, whether it be the intelligence in man, the life in the animal, or the invisible Presence which is God.