Quotes about Consciousness

Whatever repeatedly enters the mind occupies the mind, eventually shapes the mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.

C. S. Lewis was getting at this idea when he wrote, If your thoughts and passions were directly present to me, like my own, without any mark of externality or otherness, how should I distinguish them from mine?…You may reply, as a Christian, that God (and Satan) do, in fact, affect my consciousness in this direct way without signs of "externality." Yes: and the result is that most people remain ignorant of the existence of both.

one writerly habit was describing everything I did, no matter how absorbing or how trivial, as if I were standing outside myself and watching.

Within us is something of divinity. One who has this knowledge and permits it to influence his life will not stoop to do a mean or cheap or tawdry thing.

The man who thinks hateful thoughts brings hatred upon himself. The man who thinks loving thoughts is loved.

A man remains ignorant because he loves ignorance, and chooses ignorant thoughts; a man becomes wise because he loves wisdom and chooses wise thoughts.

Thought is the fount of action, life, and manifestation; make the fountain pure, and all will be pure.

every act of a man springs from the hidden seeds of thought

Self-seeking is self-destruction

Into your hands will be placed the exact results of your own thoughts; you will receive that which you earn; no more, no less.

Thought in the mind hath made us, What we are By thought was wrought and built. If a man's mind Hath evil thoughts, pain comes on him as comes The wheel the ox behind.... ..If one endure In purity of thought, joy follows him As his own shadow—sure.

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bad fruit.