Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different. Read Summary
The 'I think' which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the 'I breathe' which actually does accompany them. Read Summary
Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end. Read Summary
A painter tries to convey to us a picture of the world as he sees it; an ophthalmologist tries to enable us to see the world as it really is. The logotherapist's role consists of widening and broadening the visual field of the patient so that the whole spectrum of potential meaning becomes conscious and visible to him. Read Summary
Words are not trivial. They matter because they raise consciousness. Read Summary
I think; therefore I am. Read Summary
The Real is ever-present, like the screen on which the cinematographic pictures move. While the picture appears on it, the screen remains invisible. Stop the picture, and the screen will become clear. All thoughts and events are merely pictures moving on the screen of Pure Consciousness, which alone is real. Read Summary
Experiences such as, 'I went; I came; I was; I did,' come naturally to everyone. From these experiences, does it not appear that the consciousness 'I' is the subject of those various acts? Enquiry into the true nature of that consciousness, and remaining as oneself, is the way to understand, through enquiry, one's true nature. Read Summary
As instruments for knowing the objects, the sense organs are outside, and so they are called outer senses; and the mind is called the inner sense because it is inside. But the distinction between inner and outer is only with reference to the body; in truth, there is neither inner nor outer. The mind's nature is to remain pure like ether. Read Summary
Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind. Read Summary
Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being. Read Summary
As we grow in our consciousness, there will be more compassion and more love, and then the barriers between people, between religions, between nations will begin to fall. Yes, we have to beat down the separateness. Read Summary
I take a lot of pride in the work I do, because people pay to see me. They've got to get babysitters, park their car, get popcorn and candy. I've got to be conscious of that. Read Summary
A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view. Read Summary
If you put yourself in a position where you have to stretch outside your comfort zone, then you are forced to expand your consciousness. Read Summary
The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness. Read Summary
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity. Read Summary
Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity. Read Summary
The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. Read Summary
To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time. Read Summary