Quotes About Consciousness

În acea clip?, Egor se deÈ™tept? brusc. ÎÈ™i amintea cu o extraordinar? precizie fiecare am?nunt al visului. Nu mai era însp?imântat. Toat? fiinÈ›a lui era r?v??it? ca dup? un mare efort.

Consciousness of a real and meaningful world is intimately connected with the discovery of the sacred.

Symbolic thinking is not the exclusive privilege of the child, of the poet or of the unbalanced mind: it is consubstantial with human existence, it comes before language and discursive reason. The symbol reveals certain aspects of reality – the deepest aspects – which defy any other means of knowledge. Images, symbols and myths are not irresponsible creations of the psyche; they respond to a need and fulfil a function, that of bringing to light the hidden modalities of being.

The more a consciousness is awakened, the more it transcends its own historicity...

For the historian of religions, every manifestation of the sacred is important: every rite, every myth, every belief or divine figure reflects the experience of the sacred and hence implies the notions of being, of meaning, and of truth ... In short, the sacred is an element in the structure of consciousness and not a stage in the history of consciousness.

Consciousness of a real and meaningful world is intimately linked with the discovery of the sacred.

Then with his first step he goes to (the hell of) evil thoughts, with his second to (the hell of) evil words, and with his third to (the hell of) evil deeds.

Tr?ie?te el, ca om, ca fiin?? total? - ?i nu se las? tr?it de ?esuturile lui, de glandele lui, de automatismele lui, ca noi to?i, ce?tilal?i...

To remain "awake," to be fully conscious, means: to be present to the world of the spirit.

The guy's name was Colt. Colt, said Thebes. Like a baby, male horse? I guess, said the guy, or a gun. Well, which do you prefer? she said. What do you mean? he asked. Like, how do you prefer to think of yourself? As a baby, male horse? No, he said, he didn't really like to think of himself that way. Well, then, as a gun? she said. No, not really, he said. He preferred basically not to think of himself at all.

Les dones del paller m'havien ensenyat que la consciència era resistència, que la fe era l'acció, que el temps s'esgota.

We are aware of many things, instinctively, says Ona quietly, but to have them articulated in a certain narrative way is pleasing and fun.

La Mariche explica que a la Mejal li ha vingut l'atac arran del pensament que les dones podrien fer el seu propi mapa. No es tracta d'un temor conscient d'això de fer un mapa, precisa, sinó del que implica la qüestió: que som mestresses del nostre propi destí. Que ens n'anirem cap a un espai desconegut.

But that's what thinking is, says Ona. And thinking is one of the things we want to be free to do. The things we know to exist or to be true don't require us to dwell on them.

Matrix passò il Rubicone in uno stato di trance psicologica, incapace di percepire le acque che gli mulinavano intorno. Era un ragazzino e stava scivolando in maniera lenta e inesorabile nella delinquenza. In qualche recesso della sua mente era consapevole che forse qualcosa non andava, ma nel cyberspazio le linee di demarcazione sono molto confuse, sempre che siano visibili.

Most of us all walk around as if we're sleepwalking. We really don't experience the world fully, because we're half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do.

Yet all around you, timekeeping is ignored. Birds are not late. A dog does not check its watch. Deer do not fret over passing birthdays. Man alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creatures endures. A fear of time running out.

We really don't experience the world fully, because we're half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do." And facing death changes that? Oh, yes. You strip away all that stuff and you focus on the essentials.

How do people choose their final words? Do they realize their gravity? Are they fated to be wise?

I lived, Dor said, but I was not alive.

Inside all humans is the entirety of your memories, the ones you can access and the ones you cannot.

Everything in this world is music if you can hear it.

But everyone knows someone who has died, I said. Why is it so hard to think about dying? "Because," Morrie continued, "most of us all walk around as if we're sleepwalking. We really don't experience the world fully, because we're half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do.

So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even