Quotes About Consciousness

I read somewhere that all this - the people, the animals, the mountains, the rivers - is just God dreaming. I wish he'd wake the fuck up.

We can only know what we can truly imagine. Finally what we see comes from ourselves.

Darwin proved that not only are humans and all other animals related but also that we together feel pain, share emotions, and possess memory, reason, and imagination. Rather than seeing humans and animals as categorically different, Darwin showed that all animals, including humans, share a continuum of mental and emotional capacities.

I had know it and never known it.

Quite often, the consequence of gaining literacy or critical consciousness is alienation not just from the values of the dominant culture, but from the ways of knowing and being that characterize one's own immediate family and community.

Je sais que je ne sais pas ce que je ne sais pas.

On this view, it is not only how we die—or face the prospect of our mortality, as phenomenologists like to say—but also how we inhabit language that singularizes us, that gives our identities a distinctive resonance.

As we have discovered, although on one level psychoanalysis allows us to attain higher levels of perception and self-awareness, on another level it is an exercise in becoming reconciled to the idea that we can never entirely know ourselves.

In this manner, language becomes a medium that allows the conscious and unconscious realms to come together in a fluid manner. From this viewpoint, self-stories are effective not so much because they help us make sense of our lives, but because they give us access to the spirited liveliness of language. Indeed, to the extent that our identities are tied to discursive structures, it could be argued that the mobility of language is directly linked to the flexibility of being.

Vertigo, that's where I am. Pi wants to take over, but I don't let it. Looping wants to occur, but I remain sentient, and I don't do any of the various forms of out-freaking I want to do.

Du siehst einfach nur nicht richtig, wohin du gehst. Du lässt dich ablenken, und dann stolperst du ueber jedes noch so kleine Hindernis. Du bist weltfremd... So einfach ist das oder so komplexiert. Wie man es nimmt... Konzentriere dich beim Gehen darauf, was du tust.

But I've learned that living in either the past or the future keeps me up in my head, out of reality, robbing me of the present.

Happiness and sadness – veils of conscience between the brims of soul, of soul between the brims of hope of time.

Schneiderman (alias David Britton alias David Henry)

I inwardly did nothing.O Iscariot-like crime!

God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is.

It takes courage...to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives.

You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What you do comes from what you think.

La conciencia es el núcleo más secreto y el sagrario del hombre, en el que está solo con Dios, cuya voz resuena en lo más íntimo de ella»

Molto più tardi avrei imparato che il pensiero non si affaccia spontaneamente alla porta del nascosto. Non basta voler penetrare nell'inconscio perché la mente venga dietro. Il pensiero temporeggia, va avanti poi indietro, esita, sta in agguato ma poi quando viene il momento giusto, si ferma davanti alla porta come un cane da punta, rimane paralizzato. Poi, è il padrone che deve far alzare la selvaggina.

What you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you." — Anthony De Mello, Jesuit priest and author

The fact that we use our phones twice as many times as we think we do indicates that a lot of smartphone use seems to be habitual, automatic behaviors that we have no awareness of."7

Everything in the material world is first created on the level of thought.

What people really seek, even if they project it sometimes onto outer objects, is the feeling of being alive.