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With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things. William Wordsworth
Impulses. Our conscious awareness is automatically drawn to the most powerful impulse from the mind, emotions, senses, or design elements. The will. We can choose to be attentive to our reading despite the influence of contrary impulses such as the radio. Or we can willfully direct our attention from the reading to the radio and back again. The True self
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The conscious mind is an instrument like a spotlight that we
employ to direct our attention toward a particular object that has been selected
from the limitless assortment of thoughts, emotions, feelings, physical
sensations, sensory messages, and designs. When this instrument is not willfully
wielded, our attention zigzags from one distraction to another, making the
conscious mind seem more like a nebulous realm than a precisely directed
instrument. The conscious mind is the piece of consciousness itself that we
claim as our own. It is directed by various factors.
Consciousness is a characteristic of the true self. The mind, senses, and
body, are merely material instruments of perception by which we peer into our
own life experience to explore a particular design as it would appear in various
dimensions such as mental, physical and emotional. While we may believe that the
senses are conscious of an event, it is actually the true self that is conscious
of the event, through the instrument of the senses within the senses' dimension
. The true self can send an intuitive message to our human conscious mind such
that we direct our attention toward an item of interest. For instance, we may
suddenly feel an impulse to look at a particular person who is walking past us.