Quotes About Consciousness

We shall do well to remember that, when we make our own miserably imperfect knowledge and consciousness the measure of our sinfulness, we are on very dangerous ground.

The eye of God! Think of that. Everywhere, in every house, in every field, in every room, in every company, alone or in a crowd, the eye of God is always on you. "The eyes of the Lord are everywhere, keeping watch on the wicked and the good" (Proverbs 15:3), and they are eyes that read hearts as well as actions.

Recordemos que cuando medimos lo pecadores que somos según nuestro propio conocimiento y conciencia, miserablemente imperfectos, pisamos un terreno muy peligroso.

The majority of men could sooner be brought to believe themselves a piece of lava in the moon than to take themselves for a self.

If man had a sense of proportion, he would die of shame. His salvation was that he lived in denial.

El ruido de su reloj terminó por alcanzarlo, de manera progresiva, como si hubiera una fuga de agua en la que cada gota se sumara a la anterior; a fin de construir una estalactita quese moviese e insertase milímetro a milímetro en su cerebro.

1. Knowledge by acquaintance.

Knowledge by acquaintance is sometimes called "simple seeing," being directly aware of something.

The important thing to note is that we humans have the power to "see," to be directly aware of, to directly experience a wide range of things, many of which are not subject to sensory awareness with the five senses.

In my own case, I employed this experiment mainly in order to seek for the barrier, if any, which divides our knowledge of the past from our knowledge of the future. And the odd thing was that there did not seem to be any such barrier at all.

No, there was nothing unusual in any of these dreams as dreams. They were merely displaced in Time.

I cared not a whit whether Time were "a form of thought," or an aspect of reality, or (this was later) compoundable with Space. What I wanted to know was: How it got mixed?

Descartes' s faith in his assertion "I think, therefore I am" may be superseded by a more primitive affirmation that is part of the genetic makeup of all mammals: "I feel, therefore I am."34 Evolutionary

I use the term periconscious to suggest that higher forms of consciousness had to emerge evolutionarily from specific types of preconscious neural processes, and that the primitive affective systems that will be described in this text may have been the major gateways for the development of cognitively resolved awareness of values that appear to exist in the world.

It is an emotional issue which ultimately revolves around the question of whether other animals affectively experience the world and themselves in a way similar to humans—as subjectively feeling, sentient creatures. The topic of subjectivity is one that modern neuroscience has avoided. It is generally agreed that there are no direct, objective ways to measure the subjectivity of other animals, nor indeed of other humans.

Our emotional feelings reflect our ability to subjectively experience certain states of the nervous system. Although conscious feeling states are universally accepted as major distinguishing characteristics of human emotions, in animal research the issue of whether other organisms feel emotions is little more than a conceptual embarrassment. Such states remain difficult—some claim impossible—to study empirically.

I would suggest that subjectively experienced feelings arise, ultimately, from the interactions of various emotional systems with the fundamental brain substrates of "the self," but, as already mentioned, an in-depth discussion of that troublesome issue will be postponed until Chapter 16.

Think well to be well.

It's All in the Energy First, I teach becoming aware of four energy points: thoughts, words, feelings, and actions.

volar con la velocidad del pensamiento, para estar en cualquier lugar, debe comenzar por saber que ya está allí. RICHARD BACH

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Situational awareness, Reece.

The human mind is a strange and wonderful thing," he said reflectively, "but I'm not sure it will ever figure itself out. Everything else, maybe—from sub-atomic particles to the universe—except itself.

I am That, Thou art That, all this is nothing but That.