Quotes About Consciousness

Shamanism, on the other hand, is this world wide, since Paleolithic-times, tradition which says that you must make your own experience the center piece of any model of the world that you build.

Any experience of reality is indescribable!

Satori is a brief flash. Suddenly the light breaks through. For a short timeless time we experience eternity in its unmanifest form. It's comparable to salvikalpa samadhi.

You have the power in the present moment to change limiting beliefs and consciously plant the seeds for the future of your choosing. As you change your mind, you change your experience.

Managing the power of choice, with all it's creative and spiritual implications, is the essence of the human experience.

Look to your experience in dreams to know how you will fare in death. Look to your experience of sleep to discover whether or not you are truly awake.

When there is no thought in the mind, no thought of thought, when the mind is quiet but fully alert, we experience a little bit of enlightenment.

We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.

Most of us all walk around as if we're sleepwalking. We really don't experience the world fully, because we're half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do.

There's certainly nothing original about the observation that conscious experience poses a hard problem.

We are so numb we don't even know what a direct experience is. We have an experience, then we think about it and we think the thinking about it is the experience.

The one reality you can't evade is personal experience.

A verse from the Veda says, 'What you see, you become.' In other words, just the experience of perceiving the world makes you what you are. This is a quite literal statement.

Usually, when you go to a movie, your consciousness floats above the film. 3D sucks you in and makes it a visceral experience.

You are a lover of your own experience ... not of me ... you turn to me to feel ur own emotion

Wherever you are, be there. Lifestyle is not something we do; it is something we experience. And until we learn to be there, we will never master the art of living well.

Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction.

In dream consciousness we make things happen by wishing them, because we are not only the observer of what we experience but also the creator.

The level of consciousness you choose to tune in to each moment of each day will determine the quality of your experience of the world.

I don't think the mystical experience can be verbalized. When the ego disappears, so does power over language.

Soul travel can be a general expansion of awareness and knowingness or conscious experience of the heavenly worlds.

Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.

I don't think that anyone can age in a conscious way and not experience grief.

For how do we know that the thoughts which occur in dreaming are false rather than those others which we experience when awake, since the former are often not less vivid and distinct than the latter?