Quotes About Consciousness

Beliefs are potent shapers of reality. It is wise to be aware of this and to become more conscious of what you believe and whether those beliefs are contributing to your happiness and well-being or detracting from that.

Thinking and experiencing are two very different experiences, different states of consciousness, really. One is a mental experience and one is an actual experience of reality.

Thoughts are conditioning, so when you believe your thoughts, you become the conditioned self and lose touch with your real self. As a result of the distance from thoughts developed by meditation, the real self comes back into the picture. The real you is what is aware of thoughts and of everything else. The ego can't be aware of thoughts because the ego is, in essence, itself a thought. The ego belongs to the conditioned self and has no awareness of its own.

As soon as you see you are ego identified, you are outside of it and you have some choice—to either reidentify with the ego or not.

your attention to what is here, not to what isn't.

really involved in whatever you are doing. Experience it fully with all of your senses. Be in the experience of the present moment and not lost in your thoughts.

The spiritual heart has been guiding you all along, but it is often overshadowed by beliefs. When beliefs stop running your life and the heart takes over, your life will change because you will no longer be caught in your personal illusory reality. You will see all the beliefs and stories that created your illusory reality for what they are, and then you will know reality.

In his head he felt the confused whirling of images seeking a name. Words, sounds, surged up inside him, clean and clear, and settled on everything around him. He named, and saw what he named recognize itself.

And he was. Suddenly. From not being to being conscious that he was.

La vida de cada ser humano es una sucesión de cambios. No tendrían que ser sorpresa, pero nunca dejan de serlo. La conciencia existe en un entorno sin tiempo. Se viaja por la vida como un pasajero alerta que mira por la ventana, baja en diversas estaciones, acumula o pierde equipaje, gana o descarta compañeros de vagón. En el teje y maneje de la vida el cuerpo es silencioso cómplice".

The wise soul feareth not death; rather she sometimes striveth for death, she goeth beyond to meet her. Yet eternity maintaineth her substance throughout time, immensity throughout space, universal form throughout motion.

Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.

Grasp firmly with thy mind the near and the far together

Ci sono cose, pensò, che i nostri occhi guardano senza vedere, ma il subconscio le vede e le nota. Il subcosciente ha l'occhio della macchina fotografica e non gli sfugge niente. Tanto è vero che, alle volte, dopo un sacco di tempo ci ricordiamo di aver visto un particolare che non sapevamo di aver visto.

True knowledge, which is the ultimate wisdom, comes from within the heart. What emerges is a resonance--a knowing--which is beyond all words and which is the ultimate expression of our spirit within.

the great Dutch Protestant theologian W. A. Visser 't Hooft suggested, which I suspect applies to many people including–to a large degree–Speer: that "people cannot find a place in their consciousness . . . their imagination . . . or finally have the courage to face (or allow themselves to remember) unimaginable horror. It is possible," he said, "to live in a twilight between knowing and not knowing.

Uniti rappresentavano un fronte invincibile. Doveva cercare di affrontarli a uno a uno. Perché nell'uomo solo anche la corazza del male è più fragile. Quando la coscienza inquieta urla e non c'è un coro di voci a sopraffarla.

we should strive to grow consciousness itself — to generate bigger, brighter lights in an otherwise dark universe.

The beast is redundant. It's been us all along.

The Mortals are free, Lucifer. What they've done they've done from within themselves. - Raphael

The lies you tell yourself. The necessary lies.

One knows one's madnesses, by and large. By and large the knowledge is vacuous.

The breathing forth of the unseen into the seen is called 'crystallization'. Man was created by God as a sort of superconscious lung by which this process can be continued indefinitely.

Years earlier, I might have scoffed, but I'd come to accept that, for Snowden's generation, they played no less serious a role in molding political consciousness, moral reasoning, and an understanding of one's place in the world than literature, television, and film. They, too, often present complex moral dilemmas and provoke contemplation, especially for people beginning to question what they've been taught.