Quotes About Consciousness

In other words there is something otherworldly about our existence here --something more than matter, more than the body and mind we have been discussing -- in short, something fundamentally and profoundly abstract. And I mention this aspect because it is not at all obvious, indeed scarcely notices by the great majority of us as we go about our daily lives.

I love being. There's so much wisdom in it. You wake up in the morning and you think, Hey, isn't it great just being?

Ha a jelenben van egy valódi igazság, akkor azt csak az ember hordozhatja. Mert nincsen más, csak ember van.

Only the insomniac looks on with open eyes, like a cadaver who forgot to die.

I did not even know this existed...this world, I did not know. I thought it existed only in one's head, and in dreams....And now: here I am.

Every hour or so, he looked at his watch, and it would be three or four minutes later.

Turn off the tap when brushing your teeth.

Believers in chaos-and they sometimes call themselves believers, or converts, or evangelists-speculate about determinism and free will, about evolution, about the nature of conscious intelligence. They feel that they are turning back a trend in science toward reductionism, the analysis of systems in terms of their constituent parts: quarks, chromosomes, or neurons. They believe that they are looking for the whole.

Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time. I think I've forgotten this before. Steven Wright

It may prove useful in physics," he wrote, "to consider events in all of time at once and to imagine that we at each instant are only aware of those that lie behind us.

The seat of consciousness and intelligence was from the earliest times regarded by the Egyptians as both the heart and the bowels or abdomen. Our surgeon, however, has observed the fact that injuries to the brain affect other parts of the body, especially in his experience the lower limbs. He notes the drag or shuffle of one foot, presumably the partial paralysis resulting from a cranial wound, and the ancient commentator carefully explains the meaning of the obsolete word used for shuffle.

Fear, like love, can become a call into consciousness; one meets the unconscious, the unknown, the numinous and uncontrollable by keeping in touch with fear, which elevates the blind instinctual panic of the sheep into the knowing, cunning, fearful awe of the shepherd.

Attention does for consciousness what our hands do for our bodies: it grabs hold of nature so that we can change it

One had to breathe consciously and deliberately, which, though disconcerting at first, induced after a time an almost ecstatic tranquility of mind. The whole body moved in a single rhythm of breathing, walking, and thinking, the lungs, no longer discrete and automatic, were disciplined to harmony with mind and limb.

There came a time, he realized, when the strangeness of everything made it increasingly difficult to realize the strangeness of anything;

Careless words you can't have back. Have a way of leaving a bitter taste on your tongue.

I simply will never be bored as long as my thoughts are with me.

Some people cannot accept the truth, because denial is where they would rather stay.

Today is the sort of day where You're cheating yourself out of today. Today is calling to you, trying to get your attention, but you're stuck on tomorrow, and today trickles away like water down a drain. Some of those moments may have had wonderful things in store for you, but now you'll never know.

The lies we tell other people are nothing to the lies we tell ourselves.

Ignorance is a lot like alcohol: the more you have of it, the less you are able to see its effect on you.

We don't have to try too hard to find ourselves. We just have to tune in.

For a moment at least, live in the moment, where living is different from just existing.

Take a moment from time to time to remember that you are alive. "We get so caught up in the life we are leading and forget that we are capable of living.