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Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.
The body has to be invaded by the intelligence; each part has to become intelligent.
To begin to understand the gorgeous fever that is consciousness, we must try to understand the senses and what they can tell us about the ravishing world we have the privilege to inhabit.
But, because I had already very clearly recognized in myself that the intelligent nature is distinct from the corporeal,
We are born spiritual creatures, with a body to feel and a mind, to fathom the unknowable.
Don't talk to me about sense.
i've been alive for forty-seven years and I have absolutely no understanding of human nature whatsoever. I might as well be living with a completely different species, giant squids or perhaps some kind of insect colony.
Our consciousness is primitive; it is dependent on wants and needs.
Higher states of awareness is a by product of mental development and conscious evolution.
We are not thinking machines that feel; rather, we are feeling machines that think.
A person is made up of awarenesses. All the awarenesses that have ever been our will ever be exist like barges floating in the ocean.
Pockets of sentience glow in the cold, deep void of the universe like bubbles in a vast, dark sea.
Humans are born curious, creative, and intuitive.
The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not from within, but from without. He is like a float tossed about by the waves of a turbulent sea.
Being aware of awareness itself only consciousness can get you there to the truth of yourself the immortal inner being ...
It is what makes us human, what distinguishes us from other animals. We can be aware of being aware.
Reason and logic, fused with intuition and empathy, equals awakened consciousness and spirituality.
All beings are conscious and have their own conscious experience. All living things have similar goals of obtaining nourishment, seeking companionship and avoiding pain.
The development of beings with minds is probably the highest individuation the world has ever known, and its prehistory is the history of life on earth.
Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.
There is strong archaeological evidence to show that with the birth of human consciousness there was born, like a twin, the impulse to transcend it.
There is an inner working of intelligence behind the movement of energy in the world. This natural or organic intelligence is conscious and sure in its plan and method, not by choice or intention but intuitively and spontaneously, as a movement of pure beauty and harmony.
The essential thing is to recognize that consciousness is a biological process like digestion, lactation, photosynthesis, or mitosis;
The brain is the only kind of object capable of understanding that the cosmos is even there, or why there are infinitely many prime numbers, or that apples fall because of the curvature of space-time, or that obeying its own inborn instincts can be morally wrong, or that it itself exists.
If there is any characteristic that is distinctly human, it is the capability for reflective self-consciousness.
Everything that human beings feel, we feel. We can become extremely wise and sensitive to all of humanity and the whole universe simply by knowing ourselves, just as we are.
Man's consciousness not only reflects the objective world, but creates it.
Cognition begins with sensation.
There's an intelligence within the heart that is far bigger than our figuring out the mind.
The instinct and the body (the felt smoothness of pebbles, the seen grain of light) must know in ways that the conscious mind cannot.
If we are biological organisms, not angels, then our cognitive faculties are similar to those called "physical capacities" and should be studied much as other systems of the body are.
If an animal does something, we call it instinct. If we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.
The mind and the breath are the king and queen of human consciousness.
Consciousness is the last and latest development of the organic and hence also what is most unfinished and unstrong.
Yet human intelligence has another force, too: the sense of urgency that gives human smarts their drive. Perhaps our intelligence is not just ended by our mortality; to a great degree, it is our mortality.
The existence of conscious minds and their access to the evident truth of ethics and methematics are among the data that a theory of the world and our place in it has yet to explain.
Just as a chariot is verbalized, in dependence on collections of parts, so conventionally a sentient being, is set up depending on the mental and physical aggregates
The biology of mind bridges the sciences - concerned with the natural world - and the humanities - concerned with the meaning of human experience.
The energy everything is made of is conscious. It's alive.
Unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct ... hold us to the earth and dictate the relatively good and useful.
There is a wonderful intelligence to the unconscious. It's always smarter than we are.
Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.
Man is the product of two forces, action and reaction, which make him think.
The emergence of consciousness, like the unfolding of a leaf, relies upon restraint.
It's all real and it's all illusory: that's Awareness!
Personally, I think consciousness is an accidental by-product, a feedback loop to conserve resources.
Mind is the creator of everything.
Your consciousness will make you conscious of others
This intelligence itself is modified into what we call egoism, and this intelligence is the cause of all the powers in the body. It covers the whole ground, sub-consciousness, consciousness, and super-consciousness.
The mind has grown to its present state of consciousness as an acorn grows into an oak, or as saurians developed into mammals.
Evolution, life, physis, appear here as enveloping with regard to 'consciousness' of human knowledge.
In order to live a fully human life we require not only control of our bodies (though control is a prerequisite); we must touch the unity and resonance of our physicality, our bond with the natural order, the corporeal grounds of our intelligence.
There's a resonance inside us, a sense of who we are. We're a multi-bodied traveler. We're an essence. We're a feeling, an awareness that has an ancient existence.
The next step in human evolution is to transcend thought. This is now our urgent task. It doesn't mean not to think anymore, but simply not to be completely identified with thought, possessed by thought.
Instinct's the iron skeleton under all our ideas of free will.
Experience is a question of instinct about life.
Intelligence guided by the will using memory and imagination assisted by intuition.
Human intelligence is a function of man's evolutionary urge; the scientist and the philosopher hunger for truth because they are tired of being merely human.
Nature has concealed at the bottom of our minds talents and abilities of which we are not aware.
What is not brought to consciousness, comes to us as fate.
People experience conscious will when they interpret their own thought as the cause of their action.
The Soul's doership has arisen due to ignorance. Because of this, the inner working components of antaskaran [mind, intellect, chitta and ego] have arisen, and so has the relative-self [prakruti].
Life is consciousness.
Any self-realized being has access to the dynamic genius which nature gives all beings.
The mind is an evolved computer program.
The physical ego, the active consciousness in man, should uplift its body-identified self into unity with the soul, its true nature; it should not allow itself to remain mired in the lowly delusive strata of the senses and material entanglement.
When all is said and done, we exist only in relation to the world, and our senses evolved as scouts who bridge that divide and provide volumes of information, warnings and rewards.
Pure no-thing-ness is conscious intelligence.
Life is an empowered exploration towards consciousness development.
Mind is a wonderful force inherent in the Self.
The awakening of consciousness is the next evolutionary step for mankind.
In the face of impermanence, if your next thought is good, this is what we call the realization body.
But if one observes, one will see that the body has its own intelligence; it requires a great deal of intelligence to observe the intelligence of the body.
What is more important for us, at an elemental level, than the control, the owning and operation, of our own physical selves? And yet it is so automatic, so familiar, we never give it a thought.
We are consciousness playing a game with itself to see how it feels.
You are awareness disguised as a human being.
The operation of consciousness has created the 'apparition' called 'me'.
We humans have two things that set us apart and make us able to do what no other form of life can - reason and feel. That's because we have brains and hearts.
The senses are gateways to the intelligence. There is nothing in the intelligence which did not first pass through the senses.
We become, neurologically, what we think."(33)
Among the facts of the universe to be accounted for, it may be said, is Mind; and it is self evident that nothing can have produced Mind but Mind.
When the basis for your actions is inner alignment with the present moment, your actions become empowered by the intelligence of life itself.
Man is the only living being who has a developed self-awareness and death-awareness.
There is a powerful force within us, an un-illuminated part of the mind - separate from the conscious mind that is constantly at work molding our thought, feelings, and actions.
Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery.
Consciousness determines existence.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.
You are awareness. You are mind. You are not from this world. I mean, think about it, could you really be from here?
The mind is strong. It survives, even without thought. Even with everything taken away, it holds a seed - your self.
From the moment when, staring into the eyes of a chimpanzee, I saw a thinking, reasoning personality looking back.
Everything depends therefore on encountering thought at its source. Such thought is the reality of man's being, which achieved consciousness and understanding of itself through it.
In you, as in each human being, there is a dimension of consciousness far deeper than thought. It is the very essence of who you are. We may call it presence, awareness, the unconditioned consciousness.
We're a feeling, an awareness encased here
That which I named 'innate' is a segment of that intelligence which fills the universe.
When we see the brain we realize that we are, at one level, no more than meat; and, on another, no more than fiction.
Humans: such a brilliant model of emotional self-awareness.
There is a growing revolution in the field of human consciousness, as a quest for deeper meaning at the personal level emerges. This book has been written as a contribution to the evolution of human consciousness, seen through the eyes of both practitioners and clients.
From all this awareness we must select, and what we select and call consciousness is never the same as the awareness because the process of selection mutates it.
Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
Plant consciousness, insect consciousness, fish consciousness, all are related by one permanent element, which we may call the religious element inherent in all life, even in a flea: the sense of wonder. That is our sixth sense, and it is the natural religious sense.
Soul and mind are the powers of mankind