Quotes About Consciousness

We have already remarked how who we are can be defined, at least in part, by what we attend to - how much more so this is when what we attend to is determined less by our volition and more by ambience.

Life punishes the vague wish and rewards the specific ask. After all, conscious thinking is largely asking and answering questions in your own head. If you want confusion and heartache, ask vague questions. If you want uncommon clarity and results, ask uncommonly clear questions.

The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth, dwelling deeply in the present moment and feeling truly alive. —THICH NHAT HANH

Life punishes the vague wish and rewards the specific ask. After all, conscious thinking is largely asking and answering questions in your own head.

Think of them as insurance against the weaknesses of human nature—your weaknesses, my weaknesses, our weaknesses: 1. Make it conscious. 2. Make it a game. 3. Make it competitive. 4. Make it small and temporary.

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it."—Albert Einstein

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. —ALBERT

From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds by Daniel C. Dennett. How consciousness arises, and how much it depends on a sense of past, present, and future (plus a lot of other interesting insights).

What Is Zen?: Plain Talk for a Beginner's Mind by Norman Fischer.

There's the instant, unconscious, automatic thinking and then there's the slower, conscious, rational, deliberate thinking.

Memories, Dreams, Reflections by Carl Jung.

3. Take One Breath a Day

Be the silence that listens." –Tara Brach

Only those who are asleep make no mistakes. —INGVAR KAMPRAD, founder of IKEA,

If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present." —Lao Tzu

Qué coste tiene cada uno de ellos para ti y para la gente que te importa en el momento presente? Míralo, óyelo, siéntelo.

Jan Kounen's "Ayahuasca Visions" on YouTube.

La realidad es una mera ilusión, aunque muy persistente.» ALBERT EINSTEIN

John Dewey's dictum that "a problem well put is half-solved" applies. Life punishes the vague wish and rewards the specific ask. After all, conscious thinking is largely asking and answering questions in your own head. If you want confusion and heartache, ask vague questions. If you want uncommon clarity and results, ask uncommonly clear questions.

Humans Use Only 10% of Their Brains? Not Quite . . . "The most complex structure in the entire universe doesn't have just a vacant parking lot waiting for someone to drive in and start building. It's all used all the time, and in complex ways that we don't always understand.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. —ALBERT EINSTEIN

Life punishes the vague wish and rewards the specific ask. After all, conscious thinking is largely asking and answering questions in your own head. If you want confusion and heartache, ask vague questions. If you want uncommon clarity and results, ask uncommonly clear questions. Fortunately, this is a skill you can develop.

The fact of the matter is that all apparent forms of matter and body are momentary clusters of energy. We are little more than flickers on a multidimensional television screen. This realization directly experienced can be delightful. You suddenly wake up from the delusion of separate form and hook up to the cosmic dance. Consciousness slides along the wave matrices, silently at the speed of light

Thou shalt not alter thy brother's consciousness without his consent. - The Second Commandment of Leary