Quotes about Consciousness

A dream that is not understood remains a mere occurrence; understood it becomes a living experience.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light," he said, "but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.

Modern people…are ignorant of what they really are. We have simply forgotten what a human being really is, so we have men like Nietzsche and Freud and Adler, who tell us what we are, quite mercilessly. We have to discover our shadow. Otherwise we are driven into a world war in order to see what beasts we are.

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

Each day should be passed as though it were our last.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are-not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within-that you can begin to take control.

Excite the soul, and the weather and the town and your condition in the world all disappear; the world itself loses its solidity, nothing remains but the soul and the Divine Presence in which it lives.

No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.

Yesterday has gone. Tomorrow may never come. There is only the miracle of this moment. Savor it. It is a gift.

Now is all we have. Everything that has ever happened to you, and anything that is ever going to happen to you, is just a thought.