Quotes About Consciousness

The only substance properly so called is the soul.

Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality.

Best, I'd advise, to give up all animal products obtained by cruel methods. There are some fine companies nowadays offering leather substitutes.

These are very subtle things, of course, and I don't expect everyone to pick them up consciously, but I think that there is something there that you must be able to feel, there is an energy at work that I must trust my audience will be able to pick up at some level.

Perception is reality, because that is their truth.

If that idea of the meaningful is dropped, then you will see meaning in whatever you are doing in daily life.

The framing of what there is by the mind is what you call beauty.

You say that I am living in illusion. But poverty, work, war, they are not illusions. Are they? In what sense am I being deluded? What you experience through your separative consciousness is an illusion. You can't say that falling bombs are an illusion. It is not an illusion, only your experience of it is an illusion. The reality of the world that you are experiencing now is an illusion. That is all I am trying to say. If you say that

I am like a puppet sitting here. It's not just I; all of us are puppets. Nature is pulling the strings, but we believe we are acting. If you function that way (as puppets), then the problems are simple. But we have superimposed on that (the idea of) a "person" who is pulling those strings.

Vegetarianism for what? For some spiritual goals? One form of life lives off another. That's a fact, whether you like it or not.

You are not looking at anything; you are not in contact with anything living, as long as you use your thoughts to understand and experience anything.

You can't experience anything except through thought. You can't experience your own body except through the help of thought. The sensory perceptions are there. Your thoughts give form and definition to the body, otherwise you have no way of experiencing it. The body does not exist except as a thought. There is one thought. Everything exists in relationship to that one thought. That thought is "me." Anything you experience based on thought is an illusion.

Thought creates the space between the thinker and his thoughts, and then tells himself, "I am looking at my thoughts.

If the word is not the thing what the hell is it? Without the word you have no way of experiencing anything at all. Without the word you are not separate from whatever you are looking at or what is going on inside of you. The word is the knowledge. Without that knowledge you don't even know whether it is pain or pleasure that you experience, whether it is happiness or unhappiness, whether it is boredom or its opposite.

Thought can never capture the movement of life, it is much too slow.

Q.= WHO AM I? WHO ARE YOU? U.G = You are what you are doing RIGHT NOW!

We do not want to be seen as machines. Hence we tend to reject statements like the one by Karl Vogt, a 19th century German philosopher, who stated that "the brain produces thoughts as the liver produces bile, or the kidneys produce urine".

In general, for many scholars writing today, what is problematic about consciousness is its "phenomenal quality" or the fact that "there is something it is like" to be conscious (Nagel, 1974). Piaget does not address this issue head-on but rather through addressing the more important problem of how subjects develop a meaningful understanding of themselves and the world.

From an epistemological perspective, a person is a uniform being who interprets the different parts of her conscious knowledge in a coherent fashion (or at least tries to do this). How do modular theories explain this search for coherence? And how do they explain necessary knowledge, which hardly can be domain-specific (Smith, 1993, p. 5)?

If the human brain were simple enough to understand, we'd be so simple we couldn't.

Krishna consciousness is not something imposed on the mind. On the contrary, it's already inside of each of us, waiting to come out, like fire in a match. Chanting Hare Krishna brings out that natural, pure state of mind.

A secret of abundance is to stop focussing on what you do not have and shift your consciousness to an appreciation for all that you do have No limit people are so in charge that theycan trust their instincts, be childlike, be creative and do anything that makes sense to them.

A chinese philosopher once had a dream that he was a butterfly. From that day on, he was never quite certain that he was not a butterfly, dreaming that he was a man.