Quotes About Consciousness

You have to dream intentionally. Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally.

Intentions count in your actions.

Are black people conscious of how excruciatingly self-conscious white people have become in their every interaction with black people? Is this self-consciousness an improvement? Maybe not, because I'm thinking of people in categories rather than as people, which is a famously dangerous thing to do.

I'm very interested in the human mind, what's going on in there.

The interesting thing about something in the back of your mind is that it can travel pretty far back in your mind.

There are many different aspects to a formal meditation practice. But the real meditation practice is how you interface with life from moment-to-moment, no matter what's happening. Especially when you are awake, which is pretty much most of the time except for deep sleep.

How much self-awareness does a life of privilege and entitlement afford the entitled? If you are birthed into a particular paradigm that serves you, what would compel you to look outside?

Nos unimos para mostrar que estamos determinadas a criar uma nova consciência, na qual a violência será combatida até se tornar impensável. Nos unimos para imaginar e criar um novo mundo.

The greatest illusion we have is that denial protects us. It's actually the biggest distortion and lie. In fact, staying asleep is what's killing us.

Non c'è dolore inflitto coscientemente a qualcuno che non ci torni indietro decuplicato

esse não era só um monólogo, só uma peça, mas também um poderoso catalisador de conscientização e justiça.

If you don't love it, don't eat it, and if you love it, savor it.

Honestly, unless you killed the chef or the farmer, there should be no guilt about your eating choices.

Keep your body biologically fed with adequate energy and carbohydrates. Otherwise you can trigger a primal drive to overeat. Once you reach the moment of excessive hunger, all intentions of moderate, conscious eating are fleeting and irrelevant. Learning to honor this first biological signal sets the stage for rebuilding trust with yourself and food.

the night of thought is the light of perception.

To "purify" the senses is to release them, so far as human beings may, from the tyranny of egocentric judgments; to make of them the organs of direct perception. This means that we must crush our deep-seated passion for classification and correspondences; ignore the instinctive, selfish question, "What does it mean to me?" learn to dip ourselves in the universe at our gates, and know it, not from without by comprehension, but from within by self-mergence.

Man is left a conscious Something in the midst, so far as he knows, of Nothing: with no resources save the exploring of his own consciousness.

transcendental consciousness of humanity.

That dreadful consciousness of a narrow and limiting I-hood which dogs our search for freedom and full life, is done away. For a moment, at least, the independent spiritual life is achieved. The contemplative is merged in it "like a bird in the air, like a fish in the sea": loses to find and dies to live.

More and more, as we study and collate all the available evidence, this fact--this law--is borne in on us: that the general movement of human consciousness, when it obeys its innate tendency to transcendence, is always the same. There is only one road from Appearance to Reality. "Men pass on, but the States are permanent for ever.

Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.

Experiencing, rather than trying to have special experiences, is where real freedom lies.

To "know thyself" has been a pivotal part of most spiritual traditions; here we will be considering it in depth in order to free ourselves from the self-centered drama of "me.

The second phase—the phase of Being Awareness—intensifies as we become less involved with "me" and more concerned with cultivating a larger sense of what life is.