Quotes About Consciousness

The Yogin realizes that all the Buddhas, Bodhisattvas and Devatas with which he has filled the heavens are Maya illusion just as the world itself is Maya. All this plurality is illusion.

Hasta que no hagas consciente lo que llevas en tu inconsciente, este último dirigirá tu vida y tú le llamarás destino

Os sentidos do homem limitam a percepção que este tem do mundo à sua volta.

In other words, it is quite within the bounds of possibility for a man to recognize the relative evil of his nature, but it is a rare and shattering experience for him to gaze into the face of absolute evil.

This peculiar psychotic material cannot be derived from the conscious mind, because the latter lacks the premises which would help to explain the strangeness of the ideas. Neurotic contents can be integrated without appreciable injury to the ego, but psychotic ideas cannot. They remain inaccessible, and ego-consciousness is more or less swamped by them. They even show a distinct tendency to draw the ego into their "system.

When a man can say of his states and actions, 'As I am, so I act,' he can be at one with himself, even though it be difficult, and he can accept responsibility for himself even though he struggle against it.

Nothing brings the relentless flight of time and the cruel perishability of all blossoms more painfully to our consciousness than an inactive and empty life.

Bilincin olmad??? yerde, pratik anlamda bir yaÅŸam yoktur, çünkü dünya ancak bir psiÅŸe taraf?ndan bilinçli olarak düÅŸünüldüÄŸü ve bilinçli olarak ifade edildiÄŸi sürece varolabilir. Bilinç, varolman?n önkoÅŸuludur.

For this purpose we must first make it quite clear to ourselves that all knowledge is the result of imposing some kind of order upon the reactions of the psychic system as they flow into our consciousness—an order which reflects the behaviour of a meta-psychic reality, of that which is in itself real.

Quien mira hacia fuera, sueña. Quien mira hacia adentro, despierta

sonhos: o sonho retrata a situação interna do sonhador, cuja verdade e realidade o consciente reluta em aceitar ou não aceita de todo.

In the imperishable, infinite, highest Brahman, two things are hidden: knowing and not-knowing. Not-knowing perishes, knowing is immortal; but he who controls both knowing and not-knowing is another.51

The conflict between the two dimensions of consciousness is simply an expression of the polaristic structure of the psyche, which like any other energic system is dependent on the tension of opposites.

Should we will error? You should not, but you do will that error which you take for the best truth, as men have always done.

A clear differentiation of the conscious man from his unconscious is imperative, since only by the assimilation of conscious standpoints will clarity and understanding be gained, but never by a process of reduction to the unconscious backgrounds, sidelights, quarter-tones.

In cases of neurosis and psychosis, the unconscious attempted to compensate the one-sided conscious attitude. The unbalanced individual defends himself against this, and the opposites become more polarized. The corrective impulses that present themselves in the language of the unconscious should be the beginning of a healing process, but the form in which they break through makes them unacceptable to consciousness.

These passages show that the principles into which the world-creator divides himself are themselves divided. They were at first contained in Prajapati, as is clear from the following: Prajapati desired: I wish to be many, I will multiply myself. Then he meditated silently in his Mind, and what was in his Mind became brihat (song). He bethought himself: This embryo of me is hidden in my body, through Speech I will bring it forth. Then he created Speech.

Ä°nanc?n temeli bilinç deÄŸil, bireyin inanc?n? Tanr? ile dolays?z yolla iliÅŸkilendiren, spontan dinsel deneyimdir.

But it is the same with every single human being and his reasonably ordered world. His reason has done violence to natural forces which seek their revenge and only await the moment when the partition falls to overwhelm the conscious life with destruction.

A conscious capacity for one-sidedness is a sign of the highest culture, but involuntary one-sidedness, i.e., the inability to be anything but one-sided, is a sign of barbarism.

Bilinci ne kadar geniÅŸlemiÅŸ ve farkl?laÅŸm??sa, ahlaki yap?s? o denli geri kalm??t?r. Ä°ÅŸte bugün önümüzdeki sorun budur. Ak?l tek ba??na yeterli deÄŸildir.

Consciousness did not exist from the beginning, and in every child it has to be built up anew in the first years of life. Consciousness is very weak in this formative period, and history shows us that the same is true of mankind—the unconscious easily seizes power.

When you say that the place of the soul is not, then it is not. But if you say that it is, then it is.

Thus the Mithraic killing of the bull is a sacrifice to the Terrible Mother, to the unconscious, which spontaneously attracts energy from the conscious mind because it has strayed too far from its roots