lose consciousness of

There’s always a moment, after all the scrambling and struggling, when you come out on some isolated hilltop and discover anew the truth of Muir’s words: “Presently you lose consciousness of your own separate existence: you blend with the landscape, and become part and parcel of nature.”

Jesus had granted her already rich enjoyments in her prayers, but He would not abandon himself completely,—certainly would not lose consciousness of self in the arms of the bride; would not give His all to her with the infinite, immortal love which she eagerly desired, except within that silent poetic retreat where no sound could disturb them.

Consciously finding itself three centuries ago, our English prose blossomed at once into the solemn splendors of the King James Bible and then into the long-drawn, ornate magnificence of Sir Thomas Browne, never again till our day to lose consciousness of its power, to forget its high and holy task, the task of maintaining our language at full tide and ministering to style and beauty.

Apparently an abattoir was languishing nearby, discouraged in its yearning to lose consciousness of self in the world's oblivion.

He had to some extent succeeded; and was beginning to lose consciousness of his misery, when something striking him on the forehead startled him to fresh wakefulness.