Quotes About Consciousness

I am the I of the present

O aspeto em que a cópula e a leitura mais se parecem é que dentro delas se abrem tempos e espaços diferentes do tempo e do espaço medíveis.

Todo o imaginável pode ser sonhado mas também o sonho mais inesperado é um enigma que oculta um desejo, ou o seu contrário, um terror.

en suma, no tenía límites a mis pensamientos, que además no eran pensamientos porque no tenía un cerebro con que pensarlos y cada célula pensaba por su cuenta todo lo pensable todo de una vez, no a través de imágenes, ya que no las teníamos a disposición de ningún modo, sino sencillamente de esa manera indeterminada de sentirse allí que no excluía ningún modo de sentirse allí de otro modo.

Un uomo può avere il sentimento di una propria altissima intelligenza, che non dia altro segno di sè fuori di quel suo forte sentimento.

Le cose ch'escono dal nostro cervello hanno un aspetto sovranamente amabile specie quando si esaminano non appena nate.

Credo che tutti abbiamo nella nostra coscienza come nel nostro corpo dei punti delicati e coperti cui volentieri si pensa.

Thinking is thinking. It happens in spite of a person. … I don't have any choice. This stuff I'm talking about is on my mind whether or not I want it to be. English Creek

How do we know that we exist? No one knows. Not so, you say. I think, therefore I exist. But how do you know that you think? No one knows that either. You just do.

The purpose of meditation is not so much changing what we see as changing the way we see it.

From the structure of language comes the explanation of why the human spirit is condemned to an odyssey - why it first finds its way to itself only on a detour via a complete externalization in other things and in other humans. Only at the greatest distance from itself does it become conscious of itself in its irreplaceable singularity as an individuated being.

But we cannot make whatever encompasses us an object without moving out of it. We do not see the eyes we see with. We cannot perceive the place where we are standing unless we leave it.

The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.

Om iets te zien moet je eerst iets kunnen herkennen. Zonder herinnering kun je alleen maar kijken. Dan glijd de wereld spoorloos door je heen.

Can I admit to myself that I know about, say, the goodness of love and the evil of murder, while not admitting to myself that I know about the goodness of God and the evil of refusing Him?

I was six when I saw that everything was God, and my hair stood up, and all.... It was on a Sunday, I remember. My sister was a tiny child then, and she was drinking her milk, and all of a sudden I saw that she was God and the milk was God. I mean, all she was doing was pouring God into God, if you know what I mean.

Jim knew that he was awake and asleep at the same time, dreaming of the war and yet dreamed of by the war.

However selective the conscious mind may be, most biological memories are unpleasant ones, echoes of danger and terror. Nothing endures for so long as fear.

Without the consciousness of sin, the whole of the gospel will seem to be an idle tale. But how can the consciousness of sin be revived? Something no doubt, can be accomplished by the proclamation of the law of God, for the law reveals transgressions. The whole of the law, moreover, should be proclaimed.

At the very root of the modern liberal movement is the loss of the consciousness of sin.

The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved; it is a reality to be experienced.

Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?

jinn . . . occupy bodies which are in a liminal state . . . when consciousness is a sheet of copper beaten down, mirroring only the moment

And so we create a story—a "drama about me"—that may gradually wander far away from the here and now and far away from the way things actually are. Once the script we have concocted for ourselves has been set in the mind, we may unwittingly rely on it as a reference point for all present and future judgments—without ever checking back with the here and now. Without knowing it, our thoughts become words carved in stone rather than words written on water.