Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Though the eye is small, the soul which sees through it is greater and vaster than all the things which it perceives. In fact, it is so great that it includes all objects, however large or numerous, within itself. For it is not so much that you are within the cosmos as that the cosmos is within you.

You do not see with the lens of the eye. You seen through that, and by means of that, but you see with the soul of the eye.

Where are my sensations? They have melted into... me, and what is this me, this self, but the sum of these evaporated sensations?

This is the first, wildest, and wisest thing I know, that the soul exists, and that it is built entirely out of attention.

We are all visionaries, and what we see is our soul in things.

I do have a clear vision, and I do see things that are existing in my quote-unquote spirit, but that doesn't necessary make me a very spiritual person.

...in every man there is an eye of the soul, which...is more precious far than ten thousand bodily eyes, for by it alone is truth seen.

Time past and time future allow but a little consciousness. To be conscious is not to be in time.

Your mind makes out the orange by seeing it, hearing it, touching it, smelling it, tasting it and thinking about it but without this mind, you call it, the orange would not be seen or heard or smelled or tasted or even mentally noticed, it's actually, that orange, depending on your mind to exist! Don't you see that? By itself it's a no-thing, it's really mental, it's seen only of your mind. In other words it's empty and awake.

your soul is an inner something that is another you and hardly anybody knows what it's really thinkin' except you.

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.

We must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing...a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few put it to use.

This perceiving, active being is what I call mind, spirit, soul, or myself. By which words I do not denote any one of my ideas, but a thing entirely distinct from them, wherein they exist, or, which is the same thing, whereby they are perceived; for the existence of an idea consists in being perceived.

You are the knowing, not the condition that is known.

Our fundamental relationship is soul-to-soul. As we become multi-sensory, we become aware of it.

What happens behind your eyes is more important than what happens in front of them. This is a reversal from the way that we have been taught and the way that we had experienced the world as five sensory humans.

I have no knowledge of myself as I am, but merely as I appear to myself.

Consciousness is a sea ringed with visions.

Consciousness is not in the body; the body is in consciousness. And you are that consciousness.

Faith is like radar that sees through the fog -- the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.

Mind is a most delicate evidence. Not a soul has seen it yet.

When we're awake, we see what we need to see. When we're asleep, we see what is really there.

Thinking is only a small aspect of consciousness. Thought cannot exist without consciousness, but consciousness does not need thought

Philosophers say the Soul is double-faced, her upper face gazes at God all the time and her lower face looks somewhat down, informing the senses; and the upper face, which is the summit of the soul, is in eternity and has nothing to do with time: it knows nothing of time or of body.

The five senses are the ministers of the soul.