Quotes About Consciousness

I'm a pretty sad example of what one should do with eternal life. I've never reached any higher level of consciousness, I don't have access to any great truths, and I've never borne witness to the divine or transcendent. Some of this is just bad luck. Like working in the fishing industry in Galilee and never once running into Jesus.

I never thought of it as God. I didn't know what to call it. I don't believe in devils, but demons I do because everyone at one time or another has some kind of a demon, even if you call it by another name, that drives them.

You seem to think that the only genuine existence evil can have is conscious existence - that no one is evil unless he admits it to himself. I disagree.

Awareness is learning to keep yourself company

As a man thinks so it becomes.

The weight of earth was a terrible pressure bearing down on her, making her conscious of how tiny and short-lived a thing she was, and the light seemed very far away.

I was being a friend of the earth. You know: recycling the coffee.

We can only grow as big as our thoughts, we are defined by our thoughts, and we are the result of what we think about all day long.

Ful wys is he that can himselven knowe (Very wise is he that can know himself.)

Ful wys is he that kan himselve knowe.

Turning an experience about to observe it, results in a lessening of the experience directly proportional to the amount of observation. To think about it is, to some degree, to stop the pleasure, to stop the experience, to step outside it.

An imagined pleasure is never really the pleasure, but an imagined pain, in a very real sense, is the pain, because so much of pain is the consciousness of it. It makes itself objective. Whereas to think about pleasure is to step outside of it; to think about a presently felt pain is to step inside it. And in a very real sense, we've already got them in Hell.

Press them continually with memory and dream and have them waste their Present there.

Also, always encourage 'being good' over 'doing good.' Acts of goodness are the difficulty for us and should, of course, be avoided. 'Being good' is far less problematic, largely because it lacks definition and can be solely a state of mind completely unattached to reality.

Zu viel! Zu viel! Mein ganzes Sein ist in dem einen Augenblick. Jetzt stirb. Mehr ist unmöglich.

What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our eyes.

Vorstellungen sind auch ein Leben und eine Welt

La escritura es excelente para despertar el sistema que dormita en cada hombre; cualquiera que haya escrito habrá notado que al escribir siempre se despierta algo que hasta entonces conocíamos de un modo impreciso y que sin embargo yacía en nosotros.

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.

The state of man's mind, or the elementary phase of mind which he so far possesses, conforms precisely to the state of the world as he so far views it

George Anderson, We Don't Die.

When this sad war is over we will all return to our homes, and feel that we can ask no higher honor than the proud consciousness that we belonged to the Army of the Potomac.

Indeed, it is very far from accurate to say that we see with our eyes. The eye is blind but for the idea behind the eye.

That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.