Consciousness Quotes - Page 36

I explored alternate states of consciousness at one period of my life through psychedelics, as was the fashion with all my friends.

If we are in a high enough state of consciousness we see that life is only a passing dream.

Time can also be a place.... Everything depends on where you are standing, on where you look or what you hear. The measure of it is found in consciousness itself.

Fear is the penalty of consciousness forced to stare at itself.

I was excited to discover, in this tale by Eliade, the key themes that I most hope to understand better - time, consciousness and the dream-like basis of reality.

I realize that I was all error and deviation, that I never lived, that I existed only in so far as I filled time with consciousness and thought.

pg 9, "The consciousness of life's unconsciousness is the oldest tax levied on the intelligence.

The situation around Terri Schiavo was a deeply held conflict over what to do if someone isn't going to return to consciousness or competence. Who will decide? Even there, where we had settled legal rules, we still had disagreement. We're torn about these things.

Our individual consciousness is actually part of a larger system. There are many levels of consciousness, and the creativity used in composing the music comes from another level that is not purely personal.

I worry that we don't have a very good definition of consciousness yet which makes it hard to tackle.

We don't have a "consciousness meter" that'll tell us exactly how conscious something is. I think we might get there eventually.

For most people on the planet, consciousness can be equated with thought. They haven't experienced what it means to be conscious without thought, or they have only for very brief instants.

The evolutionary impulse is towards disidentification from thinking and the arising of awareness or presence, but the gravitational pull of the old consciousness, or rather unconsciousness, is still quite heavy. It's been around for thousands of years.

Awareness of the inner body is consciousness remembering its origin and returning to the Source.

When you listen to a thought, you are aware not only of the thought but also of yourself as the witness of the thought. A new dimension of consciousness has come in.

There are many things that are still uncertain and that probably nobody knows, because so many factors determine what form the transformation of consciousness on our planet takes.

You are not what happens in your life. You are the space in which it happens, which is consciousness itself.

Nations consist of individuals. It is for every individual to bring in a different quality - the quality of awakened consciousness - into their lives.

In the consciousness of the end is the limitation of the moment.

Most novels, if they are successful at all, are original in the sense that they report the existence of an area of society, a type of person, not yet admitted to the general literate consciousness.

One connection I see between novelists and terrorists is that we both attempt to alter consciousness.

Since we are an inextricable part of the field of consciousness, we are also infinitely creative, unbounded, and eternal.

Knowledge has organizing power inherit in it. It is simply enough to know.

Time is an experience in consciousness. It is metabolized as our biological clock. Changing our experience of time can reverse aging.

The Universe is a mirror of consciousness.