Quotes About Consciousness

The more of us that feel the universe, the better off we will be in this world.

In modern times, if the sole measure of what's out there flows from your five senses then a precarious life awaits you.

Or what if everything we know and love were just a computer simulation rendered for entertainment by a superintelligent alien species?

We do not simply live in this universe. The universe lives within us. That

Dare we admit that our thoughts and behaviors spring from a belief that the world revolves around us?

You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the Moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, "Look at that, you son of a bitch." —Edgar D. Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut

Are Robots "Them" or "Us"?

You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice. If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill. I will choose a path thats clear. I will choose Freewill.

You can't get wise with sleep still in your eyes no matter what your dream might be.

The best thing we can do for our relationships with others . . . is to render our relationship to ourselves more conscious. This is not a narcissistic activity. In fact, it will prove to be the most loving thing we can do for the Other. The greatest gift to others is our own best selves. Thus, paradoxically, if we are to serve relationship well, we are obliged to affirm our individual journey. —JAMES HOLLIS The Eden Project

Proverbs 23:7 says, "As he thinks within himself, so he is.

Once again she had the disorientating feeling that her past was still happening, unfolding in a parallel stream right alongside her present.

Did that woman, could that woman, somehow know that here before her very eyes on the roof of the Drayton sat a Negro? Absurd!

willful ignorance.

There are some things about oneself that it's not very nice to wake up to.

For life makes no mistakes and always gives man that which man first gives himself.

Man moves in a world that is nothing more or less than his consciousness objectified.–Neville Goddard

With your desire defined, quietly go within and shut the door behind you. Lose yourself in your desire; feel yourself to be one with it; remain in this fixation until you have absorbed the life and name by claiming and feeling yourself to be and to have that which you desired. When you emerge from the hour of prayer you must do so conscious of being and possessing that which you heretofore desired.

To be conscious of being poor while praying for riches is to be rewarded with that which you are conscious of being, namely, poverty. Prayers to be successful must be claimed and appropriated. Assume the positive consciousness of the thing desired.

To desire a state is to have it.

Because of your belief in external things you think power into them by transferring the power that you are to the external thing. Realize you yourself are the power you have mistakenly given to outer conditions.

When you drop your desire in consciousness as a seed, confident that it shall appear in its full-blown potential, you have done all that is expected of you. To be worried or concerned about the manner of their unfoldment is to hold these fertile seeds in a mental grasp and, therefore, to prevent them from really maturing to full harvest.

Being is one thing; becoming aware of it is a point of arrival by an awakened consciousness and this involves a journey.

to learn that the line I called the horizon does not exist and sky and water, so long apart, are the same state of being….