Quotes About Consciousness

When it comes to animals, we suffer from moral schizophrenia.

The notion that animals are not self-aware is based on nothing more than a stipulation that the only way to be self-aware is to have the self-awareness of a normal adult human. That is certainly one way to be self-aware. It's not the only way.

Sentience is a means to the end of continued existence. Sentient beings, by virtue of their being sentient, have an interest in remaining alive; that is, they prefer, want, or desire to remain alive.

Baz? hayvanlar? sevip onlara ailemizin birer üyesi gibi muamele ederken, onlara hissetme yetilerinden, duygusal kapasitelerinden, kendilerinin fark?nda olan birer ki?i olduklar?ndan asla ?üphe duymazken, onlardan hiç de farkl? olmayan ba?ka hayvanlar?n ölü bedenlerine çatal b?çaklar?m?z? saplamam?za neden olan ahlaki ?izofrenimize son vermemiz gerekir!

We would finally have to confront our moral schizophrenia about animals, which leads us to love some animals, treat them as members of our family, and never once doubt their sentience, emotional capacity, self-awareness, or personhood, but at the same time we stick dinner forks into other animals who are indistinguishable in any relevant sense from our animal companions.

Old habits die hard, but that does not mean they are morally justified. It is precisely in situations where both moral issues and strong personal preference is coming to play that we should be most careful to think clearly. As the case of meat-eating shows, however, sometimes our brute preferences determine a moral thinking rather than the other way around. Many people have said to me "Yes I know it's morally wrong to eat meat, but I just love hamburgers.

Our motivation and our thoughts about our actions become as important as the actions themselves.

Whatever we think about others is really like sending a message about ourselves to our self. So

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One way the Holy Spirit will awaken you is to teach you that what you think is happening is not happening.

and then the incomprehensible power of your mind to make illusions as a perceiver — rather than make spirit as a creator

Hitler and everyone else in the world, including you, are equally innocent because what you are seeing

we're saying he had awakened from the dream. That's not just a minor distinction, Gary. Indeed, being more seemingly awake in the dream is what passes for enlightenment among very many, but that's not what we're teaching.

That's why everything you think about others is really a message from you, to you, about you. And that's how your unconscious mind will think of it. So you definitely don't want to think of people as illusions, or that's what you'll think you are, too.

the ego is just a thought — and thoughts can be changed.

As he puts it in the Course, you are "reviewing mentally what has gone by."16 By the way, could there be a better definition of watching a movie? It's already been filmed, and it's already over and done with. And now you're watching it. And part of what you're watching is your own body! Your body is just a part of the same projection as all those other bodies you see.

You want to think of that person as being unlimited. Instead of thinking of them as being part of it, you want to think of them as being all of it. If you do that, it will take you away from the focus of being an illusion and result in a highly positive outcome. It will work. It will save you lifetimes of effort.

The Disappearance of the Universe

God, Who is actually real, seems distant and illusory. The world, which is actually illusory, seems immediate and real. For reasons that will be described later, your split mind, which split from the house like the prodigal Son, has unconsciously assigned to God the same qualities that your seemingly separated mind itself possesses. Thus God and the messages that seem to come from Him are conflicted.

Remember, the truth is not in the dream, but it can be heard in the dream.

La religión o la espiritualidad en la que crees no determina lo espiritualmente avanzado que estés en términos de conciencia. Hay cristianos que están entre los más realizados, y hay cristianos que son unos necios charlatanes. Esto es así en todas las religiones, filosofías y vías espirituales, sin excepción.

ideas leave not their source. If this be true, how can you be apart from God? How could you walk the world alone and separate from your Source?3

Into eternity, where all is one, there crept a tiny, mad idea, at which the Son of God remembered not to laugh."8

Reading is entering into the consciousness of another human being.