Quotes About Consciousness

are you really alive if you don't feel like you are stan

The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive

A spiritual organization with a hierarchical structure can convey only the consciousness of estrangement, regardless of what teachings or deep inspirations are at its root.The structure itself reinforces the idea that some people are inherently more worthy than others.

Language shapes consciousness, And the use of language to shape consciousness Is an important branch of magic.

I hover over myself Watching. Mind and body separated, Each in control As though there are two puppeteers Working the strings of my marionette self.

Kuulata saab vaid see, kes unustab vahel kella vaadata.

her bir ayr?nt?y? s?? bellekten deÄŸil de, sadece yürekten gelebilecek bir berrakl?kla görebiliyorum.

Ben yaÅŸam? daha önce hiç bu denli arzuyla yaÅŸamam??t?m ve ÅŸimdi biliyorum ki, kendiyle ilgili durumlarda kay?ts?zlaÅŸan herkes bir suç iÅŸleyecektir.

Kay?ts?z kalan için baÅŸkalar?n?n uyar?lm??l??? en hoÅŸ izlencedir.

Immer sind die Instinkte wissender als unsere wachen Gedanken.

Ama ne kadar soyut görünürlerse görünsünler, düÅŸünceler de bir dayanak noktas?na gereksinim duyarlar, yoksa kendi çevrelerinde anlams?zca dönmeye baÅŸlarlar; onlar da hiçliÄŸe katlanamaz.

Nici o vin? nu este uitat?, cât timp conÅŸtiinÅ£a ÅŸtie de ea"(Suflete zbuciumate)

ya desde el principio se cumple la ley de su vida: recibirlo todo del destino demasiado pronto, y sin la alegría de ser consciente de ello.

Electricity moves at a speed greater than thought, a speed too great for thought to grasp. These twelve words, which have landed like a white, soundless thunderbolt in the airless humidity of the Austrian post office, were written only minutes before and three countries away, in the cold blue shadow of glaciers, under the clear violet Engadine sky, and the ink was not even dry on the telegraph form when the message, the summons, burst upon a bewildered consciousness.

Çünkü kay?ts?z kalan için baÅŸkalar?n?n uyar?lm??l??? en hoÅŸ izlencedir.

Recognizing isn't at all like seeing; the two often don't even agree.

Gnosticism is a system of thought based on interior, psychospiritual experience. This being the case, it is not surprising that Gnosticism emphasizes states of mind and regards actions as secondary in nature and importance. Gnostics have always held that consciousness, rather than external action, is the true indicator of moral worth.

long as a person will not raise his or her consciousness beyond the physical world to higher, spiritual realities, the soul's enslavement in darkness—whether darkness in the outer, physical world or in

Gnostics (and Buddhists) have often been labeled pessimists and world haters because of their willingness to look the dark face of the world in the eye. Yet, both of these traditions affirm that there is a way out of suffering and ignorance, and that this way out involves an essential, salvific change in consciousness.

Gnosticism has always been difficult to define, largely because it is a system of thought based upon and frequently amended by experiences of nonordinary states of consciousness, and thus it is resistant to theological rigidity.

implications of gnosis: What makes us free is the gnosis of who we were of what we have become of where we were of wherein we have been cast of whereto we are hastening of what we are being freed of what birth really is of what rebirth really is. (Excerpta de Theodoto)

The created world, including a major portion of the human mind, is seen as evil by the Gnostic primarily because it distracts consciousness away from knowledge of the Divine.

The practitioner empowers his food and drink into nectar with the three syllables OM AH HUM , and he eats it as if it were an offering to the deity whom he vividly visualizes himself to be; he empowers his clothing and seat also into "ornaments of self-luminous knowledge" with the three syllables, and thus he enjoys them.

Resist the temptation to be someone once again. Allow yourself to be no one; allow your mind to be empty of thought, unfurnished, until the identities gradually filter back in. Notice the space between your identities and the awareness of them. Notice if a similar gap appears at other times during the day, an empty space that you may have ignored before but can now lean into and prolong. Continue to open to the openness.