====== Consciousness ======

  * Being **aware** of existence. Knowing that you know. Waking up from the sleep of [[heedlessness|heedlessness]] and experiencing [[presence|presence]]. The distilled form of [[life|life]].

  * “Knowing something by sensing.”((Ali ibn Muhammed es-Seyyid eş-Şerif Cürcani, //Tarifat: Arapça-Türkçe Terimler Sözlüğü//, tr. Arif Erkan, İstanbul: Bahar Yayınları, 1997, p. 130.))

  * “The perfection of existence is through [[life|life]]. In fact, life is the real basis and light of existence. **Consciousness**, in turn, is the light of life.”((Bediüzzaman Said Nursi, //The Words//, New Jersey: The Light, 2013, p. 528.))

  * “As for the perfection of your [[life|life]] in happiness, it is to perceive and [[love|love]] the lights of the Eternal Sun pictured in the mirror of your [[life|life]], to display ardor for Him as a **conscious** being, to be enraptured with [[love|love]] of Him, and to establish His Light’s reflection in the center of your heart.”((Ibid., p. 141.))

  * “The spirit is a living, **conscious**, luminous entity; a comprehensive, substantial law or command of God furnished with external existence and has the potential to achieve universality.”((Ibid., p. 537.))

  * “Indeed, just as [[life|life]] is a pure extract distilled from the universe, just as **consciousness** and sense perception are extracts distilled from [[life|life]], and [[intellect|intellect]] is an extract distilled from **consciousness** and sense perception...”((Bediüzzaman Said Nursi, //The Gleams//, New Jersey: Tughra Books, 2013, p. 468.))

  * “The universe’s Owner and Master does everything with [[knowledge|knowledge]], controls every affair with [[wisdom|wisdom]], directs everything perfectly, regulates everything all-knowingly, and arranges everything in a way to display the purposes and uses He wills for them. As the One who creates knows, the One who knows will speak. Since He will speak, He will speak to those having **consciousness**, thought, and speech. Since He will speak to such beings, He will speak to humanity, whose nature and **awareness** are the most comprehensive of all **conscious** beings. Since He will speak to humanity, He will speak to those most perfect and worthy of address.”((Bediüzzaman Said Nursi, //The Letters//, New Jersey: The Light, 2014, p. 119.))

  * “When your share in your existence is compared to that of the One Who created you, it is like a hair compared to a thick rope, a fiber compared to clothes. When your **consciousness** and knowledge of yourself is compared to your Creator’s knowledge and sight of you, they are a firefly’s light at midday. You are in the darkness of indifference, and the night of nature or naturalism shows you your light as if it is a piercing star.”((Bediüzzaman Said Nursi, //Al-Mathnawi Al-Nuri//, New Jersey: The Light, 2007, p. 194.))

  * “State consists of Divine manifestations occurring at times determined by the absolute Will. These manifestations are reflected in the heart and received in the believer’s perception and **consciousness**, which pursue and cast them into a mold.”((M. Fethullah Gülen, //Emerald Hills of the Heart: Key Concepts in the Practice of Sufism// vol. 1, New Jersey: Tughra Books, 2011, p. 23.))

  * “When they advance to the point where their inner and outer worlds, perception, and **consciousness** are illuminated with the knowledge of truth, then they begin to see clearly Who holds the reins of everything, and they always turn to Him in Whose Hand lie their existence and subsistence.”((M. Fethullah Gülen, //Emerald Hills of the Heart: Key Concepts in the Practice of Sufism// vol. 2, New Jersey: Tughra Books, 2011, p. 153.))

  * “Literally meaning the essence of human existence and a person’s perception of themselves, //wijdan// (conscience) is a spiritual mechanism composed of the willpower, which chooses between good and evil, the spiritual intellect (//fuad//), which is the inner, most essential dimension of the heart, the inner power of perceptiveness or the mechanism of feeling or sensation, and **consciousness**.((M. Fethullah Gülen, //Emerald Hills of the Heart: Key Concepts in the Practice of Sufism// vol. 3, New Jersey: Tughra Books, 2011, p. 188.))

===== See Also =====

  * [[absence_of_sensation|Absence of sensation]]
  * [[attention|Attention]]
  * [[comprehension|Comrehension]]
  * [[heedlessness|Heedlessness]]
  * [[presence|Presence]]

===== External Links =====

  * David Chalmers, [[https://www.ted.com/talks/david_chalmers_how_do_you_explain_consciousness|How do you explain consciousness?]]
  * Giulio Tononi, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK72pPa_gSE|Why is Consciousness so Baffling?]]
  * John Rogers Searle, [[https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/386704.Consciousness_and_Language|Consciousness and Language]]
===== Other Languages =====

  * [[https://fr.hizmetpedia.org/doku.php?id=conscience|Français]]
  * [[https://nl.hizmetpedia.org/doku.php?id=bewustzijn|Nederlands]]
  * [[https://tr.hizmetpedia.org/doku.php?id=suur|Türkçe]]

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