Consciousness Quotes - Page 33

A journal of the 'subjective' kind I have always thought foolish, as nurturing a morbid self -consciousness in the writer; and yet, alone so much as I am, it is well to have some sort of a ventilator from the interior.

Your prosperity consciousness is not dependent on money; your flow of money is dependent upon your prosperity consciousness.

When I write, I usually follow my most inner voice, sometimes called stream of consciousness.

marriages do not take root in the presence of witnesses but only in the consciousness of the persons involved.

If you really know how to ask the question 'Who am I?' you will inevitably be delivered into that state of silence and pure consciousness that is your true Being. The question 'Who am I?' will ultimately deliver you into the 'I am' of you.

I'm suddenly finding it hard to know the difference between nightmares and consciousness.

...Having no recourse, I feel back on Shakespeare. Leif would recognize it and understand the context properly. With my remaining few seconds of consciousness, I quoted Benedick from Much Ado About Nothing, who spoke these words to his former friend: "you are a Villain: I jest not." and then I collapsed into a pool of my own blood.

Do you even recognize your own consciousness?

... they are structures that we build every time we engage in a thought that's just a little bit higher than a thought we had a moment before, or an activity that's just a little bit more noble than the activity we engaged in a moment before.

Imagination is the primary gift of human consciousness.

You can make really effective changes when your consciousness is free of emotional turmoil.

We are not the personalities that our egos are so valiantly defending. Our personalities are simply the result of our current programming.

View others as unfolding beings in their journey toward higher consciousness.

The non-spatial nature of consciousness makes it possible for any apparently unconscious entity to be conscious, and vice versa.

There's no way of preventing the media from covering attacks as huge events and until the media stops doing that, they will be huge in people's consciousness, and we have to treat these things differently from the smaller random acts of violence.

Having one of your like dumb sort of stream of consciousness tweets used against you on a right wing website is the ultimate compliment.

In aesthetic consciousness we enter that painless state, prized by Epicurus as the state of the gods; for a moment we are delivered from the miserable pressure of the will. We celebrate the Sabbath from the penal servitude of willing; the wheel of Ixion stands still.

Our sense of justice depends on our sense of time. Justice is a phenomenon only of consciousness, because time spread out in a spatial succession is its very essence. And this is possible only in a spatial metaphor of time.

For if consciousness is based on language, then it follows that it is of much more recent origin than has been heretofore supposed. Consciousness come after language! The implications of such a position are extremely serious.

Consciousness is a much smaller part of our mental life than we are conscious of, because we cannot be conscious of what we are not conscious of.

Yet the fact had no consciousness of itself except through me.

...[I am] utterly entranced, at times, with the mere fact that there are other people, and that they experience themselves as the primary center of consciousness just as I do. That fact alone...Well, that fact alone is staggering.

God is a wider consciousness than we are, a pure intelligence, spiritual life and actuality. He is neither one nor many, neither man nor spirit. Such predicates belong only to finite beings.

Once you understand the power of stimulus control, you can use it to your advantage by changing the stimuli in your environment and avoiding undesirable ones; or, if that's not possible, by filling your consciousness with thoughts about their less tempting aspects.

A writer's self-consciousness, for which he is much scorned, is really a mode of interestedness, that inevitably turns outward.