Quotes about Consciousness

While individuals may look at their own lives and interactions in terms of paradigms or maps emerging out of their experience and conditioning, these maps are not the territory. They are a "subjective reality," only an attempt to describe the territory.

In the words of William George Jordan, "Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil—the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be."

Love is who we are, and when we deviate from that love we're deviating from our ultimate, essential, eternal reality.

The universe is intentional. It is always moving in the direction of greater love, regardless whether or not we consciously align with that love.

This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.

The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.

All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.

Be fully in the moment,open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you.

The inner world is as real as the outer world. One ought to be conscious of that… These two worlds are fed by each other, you must not neglect one at the expense of the other, must not deem one more important than the other.

Oh, Lord, let me feel at one with myself. Let me perform a thousand daily tasks with love, but let every one spring from a greater central core of devotion and love.

The temptations that use the raw material of good for evil can continue unrecognized for a long time without awareness.

Such insinuated insecurities need to be confronted directly and plainly. It is not possible to drift unconsciously from faith to perdition.