Quotes About Consciousness

To wit, can authenticity be aware of itself as such and still be authentic? I

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changing the course of history or, in a great many more cases, the course of their own lives. "No doubt" is the key. I can think of a couple of ways to account for such a phenomenon, neither entirely satisfying. The most straightforward and yet hardest to accept explanation is that it's simply true: the altered state of consciousness has opened the person up to a truth that the rest of us, imprisoned in ordinary waking consciousness, simply cannot see.

once described a spiritually "realized being" as simply a person with "an acute sense of the astonishing mystery of everything.

Plants and mushrooms have intelligence, and they want us to take care of the environment, and so they communicate that to us in a way we can understand." Why us? "We humans are the most populous bipedal organisms walking around, so some plants and fungi are especially interested in enlisting our support. I think they have a consciousness and are constantly trying to direct our evolution by speaking out to us biochemically. We just need to be better listeners.

Michael Pollan

Altered States of Consciousness, that made a tremendous impression on Paul. Edited by Charles T. Tart

imagine for a moment if we once again knew, strictly as a matter of course, these few unremarkable things: What it is we're eating. Where it came from. How it found its way to our table. And what, in a true accounting, it really cost. We could then talk about some other things at dinner. For we would no longer need any reminding that however we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of nature, not industry, and what we're eating is never anything more or less than the body of the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson crossing a wintry New England commons in "Nature": Standing on the bare ground,—my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space,—all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball. I am nothing. I see all. The currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.

Surrealism also refuses the representation of reality: reality can only be; its existence proves its reality. Fiction thereby becomes impossible or is, by definition, false.

awareness changes the situation; any action carried out with awareness is transformed through awareness itself.

When communication between the hemispheres is lost, each is unaware of the other's knowledge and each functions independently based on the information it receives. Both sides of the brain try to complete the task independently, resulting in the tug-of-war. By this simple task, the illusion of a unified consciousness is exposed. Clearly, if consciousness arose from a single location, then a split-brain patient would be unable to have two simultaneous experiences!

The world is not disturbing you, you are disturbing yourself about the world.

You think the solution to your inner problems is in the outside world, you think if you change things outside you'll be happy, but nobody has ever truly become better by changing things outside, there's always the next problem. The only real solution is to take the seat of witness consciousness and completely change your frame of reference. To attain true inner freedom, you must be able to objectively watch your problems instead of being lost in them.

My experiment with surrender had taught me to always be present in the current moment and do my best to not allow my personal preferences to make decisions for me.

He was proud of her, he admired her, and at that moment he was conscious of life as something good and he fell in love with her all over again. This consciousness of love took the form of a deep patience inhabiting him, rather than a feeling of cheer or even hope

We all have a variety of ways of avoiding our 'darkness' (wherein lies all our wounds/hurts/betrayals/ grief/loss etc.), ways of practicing a type of conscious forgetfulness in order to not to have to look at that place within us. However, there are times and occasions when we either choose to look into our 'pit' or we fall in, and we can become afraid, sad, or angry.

Life itself is neither a good nor an evil: life is where good or evil find a place, depending on how you make it for them.

Wie overal is, is nergens.

Gjør vi ikke oss selv til dyr når vi kaller den handling som skaper oss dyrisk?

It's higher consciousness that causes all our griefs and tortures, don't you think?

We demand that sex speak the truth [...] and we demand that it tell us our truth, or rather, the deeply buried truth of that truth about ourselves wich we think we possess in our immediate consciousness.

There has been so much action in the past," said D.H. Lawrence, "especially sexual action, a wearying repetition over and over, without a corresponding thought, a corresponding realization. Now our business is to realize sex. Today the full conscious realization of sex is even more important than the act itself.

méthode, selon lequel tout donné a un droit originelm » ; la psychologie phénoménologique sera élucidation de ce droit originel tel qu'il concerne le donné dans le flux immanent de la conscience : elle constituera une éidétique de la conscience tout comme les mathématiques constituent une éidétique de la nature.