There's a big gap between public opinion polls and the vote in Washington, in Congress. The majority consciousness has changed, and often that has made very clear, practical changes in our daily lives, but the centers of power are still not occupied, for the most part, by this new consciousness.
Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.
Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.
To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.
If things do not exist as fixed, independent entities, then how can they die? Our notion of death as the sudden expiration of that which was once so real starts to unwind. If things do not exist in their own right and are flickering rather than static, then we can no longer fear their ultimate demise. We may fear their instability, or their emptiness, but the looming threat of death starts to seem absurd. Things are constantly dying, we find. Or rather, they are constantly in flux, arising and passing away with each moment of consciousness.
For every minute that I spin, there is in me the consciousness that I am adding to the nation's wealth.
You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
Changing mass consciousness is an individual responsibility.
The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action.
. . . the consciousness of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes the handing-over of all power to a small caste seem the natural, unavoidable condition of survival.
Consciousness comes first; it is the ground of all being. Everything else, including matter, is a possibility of consciousness. And consciousness chooses out of these possibilities all the events we experience.
Man is saved by love and duty, and by the hope that springs from duty, or rather from the moral facts of consciousness, as a flower springs from the soil.
Become more and more centered in the Self. To live more and more in the thought that God is here in your consciousness.
The animals certainly like to be close to humans, especially as humans go through the shift in consciousness.
Constructive criticism is legitimate, but when it escalates to vitriol, it affects us all, because celebrities and influencers are part of the collective consciousness.
Suffering occurs when something is taken for what it's not , rather than for what it is.
Writing should be useful. If it can't instruct people a little bit more about the responsibilities of consciousness there's no point in doing it.
I realize that I was all error and deviation, that I never lived, that I existed only in so far as I filled time with consciousness and thought.
The crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness.
Consciousness is a sea ringed with visions.