Quotes About Consciousness

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

People don't have ideas. Ideas have people.

I have always been impressed by the fact that there are a surprising number of individuals who never use their minds if they can avoid it, and an equal number who do use their minds, but in an amazingly stupid way.

One who looks outside, dreams. One who looks inside, awakens.

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

Nature has no use for the plea that one 'did not know'.

What we do not make conscious emerges later as fate.

What is not brought to consciousness, comes to us as fate.

When you succeed in awakening the Kundalini, so that it starts to move out of its mere potentiality, you necessarily start a world which is totally different from our world. It is the world of eternity.

I simply believe that some part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to the laws of space and time.

Not the criticism of individual contemporaries will decide the truth or falsity of these discoveries, but future generations. There are things that are not yet true today, perhaps we dare not find them true, but tomorrow they may be. So every man whose fate it is to go his individual way must proceed with hopefulness and watchfulness, ever conscious of his loneliness and its dangers.

I do not forget that my voice is but one voice, my experience a mere drop in the sea, my knowledge no greater than the visual field in a microscope.

We are so captivated by and entangled in our subjective consciousness that we have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions.

But again and again I note that the individuation process is confused with the coming of the ego into consciousness and that the ego is in consequence identified with the self, which naturally produces a hopeless conceptual muddle.

Whoever looks from inside knows that everything is new.

The shadow is a living part of the personality and therefore wants to live with it in some form. It cannot be argued out of existence or rationalized into harmlessness. This problem is exceedingly difficult, because it not only challenges the whole man, but reminds him at the same time of his helplessness and ineffectuality.

There is no difference in principle between organic and psychic growth. As a plant produces its flower, so the psyche creates its symbols.

My thesis, then, is as follows: In addition to our immediate consciousness, which is of a thoroughly personal nature and which we believe to be the only empirical psyche (even if we tack on the personal unconscious as an appendix), there exists a second psychic system of a collective, universal, and impersonal nature which is identical in all individuals.

Only the "complete" person knows how unbearable man is to himself.

Until you allow the unconscious to become conscious, it will rise up to you as your life and you will call it your fate

Ethical decision is possible only when one is conscious of the conflict in all its aspects.

Tvoja ?e vizija postati jasna tek kada se zagledaš u svoje srce. Onaj tko gleda prema van, sanja. Onaj koji gleda prema unutra, budi se'.

Unfortunately there is no doubt about the fact that man is, as a whole, less good than he imagines himself or wants to be. Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is.