Quotes About Consciousness

Imagination is the ability to bring to mind things that are not immediately present to our senses.

Increasing consciousness = increasing complexity.

Both the old and new physics were dealing with shadow-symbols, but the new physics was forced to be aware of that fact - forced to be aware that it was dealing with shadows and illusions, not reality.

This present moment, since it knows neither past nor future, is itself timeless, and that which is timeless is Eternal. Thus "the eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

The adventure of awakening is among the most universal of human dramas.

Between life's stimuli and our habitual responses exists choice.

If the soul wants to know God, it cannot do so in time. For so long as the soul is conscious of time or space or any other [object], it cannot know God.

Eternity is not ever-lasting time but the real, unfading, indestructible, and timeless Present, for, as Schroedinger said, the present is the only thing that has no end.

Few of us have lost our minds, but most of us have long ago lost our bodies.

There is more to the human mind than its evolutionary heritage.

I could not focus on any one subject for long because my mind was cotton candy, wisps and swirls and strands, without substance.

Our combat with the devil always should be with the consciousness that we have authority always should be with the consciousness that we have authority over him because he is a defeated foe – the Lord Jesus Christ defeated him for us.

No fue sino hasta que sucumbimos ante la tentación que pudimos tomar conciencia de la insensatez de nuestros deseos

Now, more than ever before, it is evident that man must find his centre, his 'soul', or perish as a self-conscious entity.

If the truth is inside, And the form is outside, What is the truth of sleep?

without thought, for you are not ready for thought

You know, one thought I've had quite a few times… is that the near death experience I had – I wonder if I created this… I think that certain people are able to create their own "shock treatments," and I almost have a feeling that this clinical death experience is your own form of shock therapy to make you aware.

Intellectually, we all know that we cannot avoid death. But for most people, there is usually a wide discrepancy between between intellectual reality and psychological reality. Psychologically, we tend to deny death. [...] Recognizing the reality of death psychologically and not just intellectually is an important part of spiritual awakening.

The thing that becomes true about you is the thing you think the most often.

bed and watch distant flashes of lightning illuminate the inside of giant, looming thunderheads six or seven miles high. The earth itself had ceased to be the prime element in my consciousness. This was a land of the sky, and every turn, every action, lifted the eye upward.

The study of thinking machines teaches us more about the brain than we can learn by introspective methods. Western man is externalizing himself in the form of gadgets.

Where ever men go, in heaven, or earth, or hell they find themselves, and that is all they find.

You make yourself go to sleep. You just tell yourself it's a dream.

The United States is in sore need today of an aristocracy of intellect and service. Because such an aristocracy does not exist in the popular consciousness, we are bending the knee to the golden calf of money. The form of monarchy and its pomp offer a valuable foil to the worship of money for its own sake. A democracy must provide itself with a foil of its own and none is better or more effective than an aristocracy of intellect and service.