Quotes about Consciousness

Don't do the natural thing, the impulsive thing. That is usually wrong.

I dream in my dream all the dreams of the other dreamers, And I become the other dreamers.

Clear and sweet is my soul . . . . and clear and sweet is all that is not my soul. Lack

The more spiritual a child of God becomes, the more conscious he is of the significance of walking according to the spirit and the dangers of walking according to the flesh.

As we bring our will and thought to God His own will and thought begin to be reproduced in us, and then this becomes our will and thought. This kind of prayer is most valuable and full of weight. Let

We still (sometimes) remember that we cannot be free if our minds and voices are controlled by someone else. But we have neglected to understand that we cannot be free if our food and its sources are controlled by someone else. The condition of the passive consumer of food is not a democratic condition. One reason to eat responsibly is to live free. (pg. 323, The Pleasures of Eating)

Waking up from a dream of violence is much the same as waking up from a dream of love. You must go on living your life.

This is what it means to be human "in the image of God." It means being free to make choices instead of doing whatever our instincts would tell us to do. It means knowing that some choices are good, and others are bad, and it is our job to know the difference.

To continue in atheism, I would need to believe that nothing produces everything, non-life produces life, randomness produces fine-tuning, chaos produces information, unconsciousness produces consciousness, and non-reason produces reason. I simply didn't have that much faith.

Every day we make some impact on the planet. And the cumulative effect of millions of small ethical actions will truly make a difference.

Any little thing that brings us back into communion with the natural world and the spiritual power that permeates all life will help us to move a little further along the path of human moral and spiritual evolution.

wisdom involves using our powerful intellect to recognize the consequences of our actions and to think of the well-being of the whole.