Quotes About Consciousness

Being a clown would be all right, but I did not want to be a clown unaware that he was one.

just as, in the dark, one sees only darkness whether one keeps his eyes open or shut, looks right or left.

I must be continually alert to the mask, as one is to handling complicated machinery.

none of the tests performed thus far had revealed the true reason Akane had lost consciousness

There was no way to actually confirm that his body existed as a body. His cognitive abilities may have convinced him that it did, but there was always the possibility that reality was empty.

La consciencia de mis capacidades literarias es, a última hora del día y por la mañana, inabarcable.

the real world was only a dream, only an echo, and in silent moments throughtout the day it would hit me: i am not at home here.

The constant reprimands made me hyperconscious of my own performance, and so instead of getting rid of self, I had become embedded in the egoism I was supposed to transcend. Now I was beginning to understand that a silence that is not clamorous with vexation and worried self-regard can become part of the texture of your mind, can seep into you, moment by moment, and gradually change you.

As soon as I stopped trying to exploit my literary skills to advance my career or enhance my reputation, I found that I was opening myself to the text, could lose myself to the beauty of the words and in the wisdom of the writer. It was a kind of ekstasis, an ecstasy that was not an exotic, tranced state of consciousness but, in the literal sense of the word, a going beyond self.

The unity of God could be glimpsed in the truly integrated self.

Like any skill, religion requires perseverance, hard work, and discipline. Some people will be better at it than others, some appallingly inept, and some will miss the point entirely. But those who do not apply themselves will get nowhere at all. Religious people find it hard to explain how their rituals and practices work, just as a skater may not be fully conscious of the physical laws that enable her to glide over the ice on a thin blade.

Like any Platonist, he experienced knowledge as remembrance, as known to him already at some profound level of his being.

Finally Muhammad quoted the words that God had spoken to the whole of humanity: Behold, we have created you all out of a male or a female, and have made you into nations and tribes, so that you may come to know one another. Verily, the noblest of you in the sight of God is the one who is most deeply conscious of him. Behold God is all-knowing, all-aware.40

The aim of this step is threefold: (1) to recognize and appreciate the unknown and unknowable, (2) to become sensitive to overconfident assertions of certainty in ourselves and other people, and (3) to make ourselves aware of the numinous mystery of each human being we encounter during the day. First

What do you think Socrates meant when he said, "The unexamined life is not worth living"? Third

In your mindfulness practice, notice how often, without thinking, you try to manipulate, control, or exploit others—sometimes in tiny and apparently unimportant ways.

man of the Axial Age, Confucius wanted people to become fully conscious of what they were doing. Performance of the li was

Enmity shapes our consciousness and identity.

It is when one begins to lose the consciousness of freedom, and when the idea of necessity enters the world at all, when there is any hurry or strain anywhere, a letter to be written or a train to catch, when you have got to work, to make the horses of the dream gallop, or to make the rifles go off, that the dream is declining, and turning into the nightmare, which belongs to the poorest and most vulgar class of dreams.

I general brzo isprazni ?ašu. Jer kamo razuman ?ovjek može pobje?i kad ne može vjerovati u svoj razum? Bolje biti pijan nego lud.

Women never dress without thought.

For the analyst it is a source of never-ending astonishment how comparatively well a person can function with the core of himself not participating.

He referred to the human brain as a clown car parked between our ears. Open the doors and the clowns pile out.

Maybe anosognosia, the inability to see your own disability, is the human condition and I'm the only one who doesn't suffer from it.