Quotes About Consciousness

We experience a body experiencing an outer world. But really, the experience of the outer world, as well as the experience of the body, are not happening in two different places.

One of the cosmic laws, I think, is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our experience.

We see the world through our experience.

If you have perfect virtual reality eventually, where you're be able to simulate everything that a human can experience or imagine experiencing, it's hard to imagine where you go from there.

Creatures of a very particular making, we need to know the cultural blinders that narrow our world view as well as the psychological blinders that narrow our view of our personal experience.

It's the only hallucinogen I know, where if it's made right, the next day, or the day after the experience, you actually feel better than if you hadn't done it.

The felt presence of immediate experience-- this is all you know. Everything else comes as unconfirmed rumor.

We're not mere spectators, or a cosmic accident, or some sideshow, or the Greek chorus to the main event. The human experience IS the main event.

...reality, the name we give to the common experience.

The function of the brain is to reduce all the available information and lock us into a limited experience of the world. LSD frees us from this restriction and opens us to a much larger experience.

The senses collect the surface facts of matter... It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience; when mind acted, it was knowledge; when mind acted on it as knowledge, it was thought.

You're experiencing a bit of the world around you when you experience it's color.

Death is only an experience through which you are meant to learn a great lesson: you cannot die.

The world was simply and sheerly divided into 'the aware', those who had the experience of being vessels of the divine, and a great mass of 'the unaware', 'the unmusical', 'the unattuned.

You are an infinite spiritual being having a temporary human experience.

You take the senses away, and there is no consciousness. Consciousness comes from experience.

What you experience as "reality," including your physical body and aging, is shaped by your habits of perception.

Remember, whatever we put our attention on expands in our experience, so consider where you are focusing your time and energy.

To experience anything fully and see it clearly there must be a moment of presence where conceptual thinking is not interfering with your experience of that moment.

The actual experience of awakening can only be in the present moment.

I have gone from "being" my experience to being infinite consciousness having the experience and observing the experience.

Heaven is the experience of being completely present to all that is, all that you are, and all that you have to give. Are you choosing to live in heaven or suffer in hell?

Keep this point clear: central to discovering an experience's perceptual meaning is a recognition of its identity and its individuality.

Yes, I can talk and think at the same time. Most people can, though I suppose you wouldn't know that from personal experience. Elena (Bitten)