Conscious (kon’shas), adj. 1. Aware of one’s own existence, sensations, thoughts, surroundings 2. Fully aware of or sensitive to something: conscious of one’s own faults. 3. Having the mental faculties fully active: He was fully conscious during the operation. 4. Known to oneself; felt: conscious guilt. 5. Aware of what one is doing: a conscious liar. […]
“We create among ourselves what we choose to notice. Once this work of self-authorship has begun, we inhabit the world we’ve created. We self- seal. We don’t notice anything except those things that confirm what we already think about who we already are… When we succeed in moving outside our normal process of self- reference […]