Quotes About Consciousness

we are nothing but images of images. Reality, including our selves, is nothing but a thin and fragile veil, beyond which . . . there is nothing.

Hollandal? felsefeci Baruch Spinoza'n?n 17. yüzy?lda müthi? bir sa?duyuyla anlad??? gibi, bu ikisi ayn? ?eydir. "Ben" ve "beynimdeki nöronlar" diye iki ayr? ?ey yoktur. Bu ikisi ayn?d?r. Bir birey, karma??k ama s?k? s?k?ya bütünle?ik bir süreçtir.

There is not an 'I' and 'the neurons in my brain'. They are the same thing. An individual is a process: complex, tightly integrated.

man is what we all know.

The world citizenship I am talking about is of a very different sort. It is based on the realization that globalization has led to the point where there is no longer a space on earth that is outside civilization and that political consciousness can no longer be restricted to one country, culture, or religion and thus needs to address the fate of humanity as a whole.

Human beings are on a journey of awareness, which has been momentarily interrupted by extraneous forces.

Forget the self and you will fear nothing, in whatever level or awareness you find yourself to be.

The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity.

O tempo é a minha matéria. O tempo presente, os homens presentes, a vida presente.

My dad's a beautiful man, but like a lot of Mexican men, or men in general, a lot of men have a problem with the balance of masculinity and femininity - intuition and compassion and tenderness - and get overboard with the macho thing. It took him a while to become more, I would say, conscious, evolved.

Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.

With mindful attention, you realize that thoughts are just thoughts - mental processes in the mind - rather than the truth.

Mindful communication is about becoming aware of the ways you send information into the world. When you are conscious of the messages you project, you understand the effect that your words and actions have on others.

It is easy to slip into autopilot mode when you are distracted or have too much to do.

Dormir era precisamente abrir los ojos, desde un paisaje inmóvil.

Dormir no es cerrar los ojos. La gente dice dormir y despertar, pero nunca sabe cuándo está dormida y cuándo no.

When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds. Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties, and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be." —Patanjali, an Indian teacher often called the Father of Yoga.

The only abyss that exists is the demonic sphere of consciousness created by the erroneous ideas and beliefs of the collective ego.

within himself, so is he" (Proverbs 23:7).

And the next time you raise your gun to needlessly take a feathered life, think of the marvelous little engine which your lead will stifle forever; lower your weapon and look into the clear bright eyes of the bird whose body equals yours in physical perfection, and whose tiny brain can generate a sympathy, a love for its mate, which in sincerity and unselfishness suffers little when compared with human affection.4

From cutting the throat of a young calf to cutting the throat of our brothers and sisters is but a step. While we are ourselves the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal conditions of the earth!" -Isadora Duncan

All that we see or seem, is but a Dream within a dream." Edgar Allan Poe

When an individual develops his heaven nature, he shines like the sun. Such a person keeps conscious of, and clings to, what is good and great within himself.

An oracle must cross the moat of logic and reach the inner poet that resides, perhaps repressed but nonetheless alive, within all of us. The I Ching helps us tune into our feeling consciousness through imagery and metaphor, and this, we find, is the path of clarity, of both strength and tolerance, of gentle humor, and of love.