Quotes About Consciousness

The last great attempt to free consciousness from the domination of impulses and social controls was psychoanalysis; as Freud pointed out, the two tyrants that fought for control over the mind were the id and the superago, the first a servant of a genes, the second a lackey of society - both representing the "Other".

Pain and pleasure occur in consciousness and exist only there

The idea that a sizable fraction of our carbon dioxide could stick around for hundreds of thousands of years hasn't reached mainstream consciousness yet,

Beneath the surface there is a deeper and vastly more authentic Self, but its presence is usually veiled by the clamor of the smaller "I" with its

The other reason why the mind has been regarded with a certain amount

The other reason why the mind has been regarded with a certain amount of suspicion is its tendency to pull us into a smaller, mentally constructed sense of ourselves: to confuse being with thinking.

is to break through the bonds that attach the individual to the world of his senses and separate him from his eternal nature.

The range of our knowledge of reality is limited by our pre-existing beliefs, assumptions, and expectations

We live in an incredibly dynamic universe that gives us what we wish for, like a waking dream

The more attention we pay to the idea that reality shifts, the more we see our reality shift

Reality shifts occur when we are in a dreamy state of energized awareness in which we are clear about what we prefer

Going beyond our ordinary concept of self is what always brings us the greatest sense of joy in life. Going beyond our own boundaries brings us an ecstatic awareness of how we are truly created in connection with all that is.

Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable.

Marx's simultaneous critique of the categories of political economy, of utopian socialism and of Hegel does not aim to replace them with an improved set. He grasps them as expressions of the way that humanity is concealed within inhumanity. By tracing their logical interconnections, he finds the way to break their stranglehold on our consciousness and on our lives.

Names are what you can hear or see, but cannot smell or touch. I don't need a name, as name stand for things they are not, and I am what all names stand for. If you gave me a name, it would mean that we are separate, you and I, when we are not. - The Blind Girl and the Talking Moon

How to resist nothingness? What power Preserves what once was, if memory does not last? For I remember little. I remember so very little.

And who can consent at the mirror to a mere face of man?

Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.

For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or "consciously" desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to star, or you will just stay where you are.

The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.

The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.

Some people travel all over the world and see nothing. They go about clad in a thick fog of their own making through which no impressions can penetrate.

We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can be touched but not known.

where is here, when is now??