Quotes About Consciousness

When I read philosophy or neuroscience papers about consciousness, I don't get the sense we're any closer to understanding it than we were 50 years ago.

The fork is the most powerful tool ever placed in our hands.

For most people the prohibitions are a good thing. But If you are able to maintain very powerful states of mind, then you'll find yourself in everything you see.

Philosophy, for me, is a way of relearning to look at the world, a world that is familiar to us, that we know, that is shared by all human beings and also by nonhuman beings.

Tis true, 'tis certain; man, though dead, retains Part of himself; the immortal mind remains.

What does it matter where my body happens to be?' he said. 'My mind goes on working all the same.

If the rest of your brain were conscious, it would probably regard you as the pointy-haired boss from Dilbert

In the western philosophy you can't perceive infinities at every moment. It's not there to do.

Tantra means the avoidance of a set or defined form of spirituality. Tantra is intuitive self-discovery.

Every man knows that he will die: and nobody believes it. On that paradox stand not only a host of religions but the entity of a sane being.

The difference between the reason of man and the instinct of the beast is this, that the beast does but know, but the man knows that he knows.

In this world we see the pairs of opposites. Ultimately there are no oppositions. In the superconscious awareness there is no division.

Among the facts of the universe to be accounted for, it may be said, is Mind; and it is self evident that nothing can have produced Mind but Mind.

Sexuality, for the person who practices tantra, is a marvelous way to experience illusion. Illusion is just another way of seeing things. There are no illusions because there is no self.

In metaphysics, the notion that earth and all that's on it is a mental construct is the product of people who spend their lives inside rooms. It is an indoor philosophy.

A critical part of Tantric Buddhism is a process of turning of the activities and experiences in your daily life into meditation.

One person will eat meat and it will lower their attention field. Another person won't even be affected by it because they're not in the state of mind whereby they'll be affected by it.

The basic philosophy of stoicism is that you have nothing real external to your own consciousness, that the only thing real is in fact your consciousness.

There's no right or wrong in the study of enlightenment. There's only experience.

In the world of Buddhist mind, in the advanced states, we go beyond time, space, life, death and Newsweek.

Tantra does not seek any type of experience, nor does it avoid it.

If we are in a high enough state of consciousness we see that life is only a passing dream.

We are all students of the world; frail embodied consciousnesses struggling to understand, and be a meaningful part of this great, mysterious gift of life.

It doesn't really matter what you do. It is your state of mind that matters.