Quotes About Consciousness

In a strange room you must empty yourself for sleep. And before you are emptied for sleep, what are you. And when you are emptied for sleep, you are not. And when you are filled with sleep, you never were. The words come to him from a long way off.

Wat altijd gebeurt als ze nadenkt over doodgaan. Je lichaam weet, ook al houden je hersens zich dom.

The Indians were inside their bodies, he decided, in a way that the British were not. His own flesh impeded his spirit.

We are here for knowledge. Our enemy is thoughtlessness. This is philosophy.

Sometimes he thinks that if he could only trace the path of his life carefully enough, everything would become clear. The ways that he screwed up would make sense. He closes his eyes tightly. His life wasn't always a mistake, he thinks, and he breathes uncertainly for awhile, trying to find a pathway into unconsciousness, into sleep.

It had occurred to him that if the undead don't realize that they are dead, he might easily be one of them himself.

I realized that I had the choice. I could give this moment a meaning, or I could choose to ignore it. It just depended on the kind of story I wanted to tell myself.

Even if this spring the dappled leaves should shelter our minds from the moon's pale echo we would still remember how once they were sheltered by our skulls only from the day's sun and the night's stars and never from what we feared and what we remembered

Feel the flowing life energy." "Yesssssssssssssss…" "Can you see the universe unfolding in your mind?" Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Taking it one step further, as Kabat-Zinn's voice murmured along, I realized I was not just noticing myself and my own thoughts and feelings and sensations but, in so doing, I was also observing myself observing myself. How bizarre: 3-back consciousness.

you can live a whole life time never being awake.

Where are you? Here What time is it? Now What are you? This moment.

Live in the Moment", "Empty Your Mind of the Trash" Wisdom is the Use of Knowledge

the tame 'God' they've made up in their heads based on what they want God to be like. They keep the real God out of their consciousness. If they did become conscious of him, in all his holiness and power, they would hate him."4 GREG F

What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.

What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind. How true that is.

Wherever you are, make sure you're there.

your attention is the most valuable property you can ever possess.

It is only when the child comes to realize that her experiences take place from a first-person perspective that is unique to the child and inaccessible to others, it is only when she realizes that she enjoys unique access to her own experiences, and others to theirs, that her experiences are given to her as subjective, and hence in a first-person mode of givenness.

subjectivity of experience presupposes an apprehension of the distinction between one's own experiences and the experience of others,

Against the background of such considerations, which incidentally entail that we ought to be very cautious in ascribing subjectivity to individuals with severe forms of autism, the very notions of pre-reflective self-consciousness and mineness have been taken to be not only theoretical aberrations but also redundant and explanatorily vacuous

In short, there is a difference between asking about the property the object is experienced as having (how does the surface of a table feel differently from the surface of an ice cube?) and asking about the property of the experience of the object (what is the experiential difference between perceiving and imagining an ice cube?).

We are Energy, trapped in a bag of blood and guts.

I was longing for the moment I was in, even as I was in it.