Quotes About Consciousness

In your own bosom you bear your heaven and earth, And all you behold, though it appears without, It is within, in your imagination, Of which this world of mortality is but a shadow.

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.

We do not posses imagination enough to sense what we are missing.

We might neglect our future selves because of some failure of belief or imagination.

The mind contains all possibilities.

We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.

We live in condensations of our imagination

But sometimes what we call 'memory' and what we call 'imagination' are not so easily distinguished.

There are three things you need to live abundantly: awareness, imagination and gratitude.

Things seemed to go back and forth between reality and imagination--except that it was all reality.

Consciousness means choicelessness, and to be choiceless is to be free from all desire, is to be free from all projection, is to be free from all imagination, is to be free from future.

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

Psychologists have hitherto failed to realize that imagination is a necessary ingredient of perception itself.

A hallucination is a species of reality, as capable of teaching you as a videotape about Kilimanjaro or anything else that falls through your life.

I can state with complete assurance that for each of us our brains form the material basis of our experiences and memories, our imaginations, our dreams.

Active imagination requires a state of reverie, half-way between sleep and waking.

From eating meat arrogance is born, from arrogance erroneous imaginations issue, and from imagination is born greed; and for this reason refrain from eating meat.

Everything will come true in cyberspace. That's the whole idea. What cyberspace is, on one level, it's simply the human imagination vivified, hardwired.

You could almost describe psychedelics as enzymes for the activity of the imagination.

Vegetarianism is an act of the imagination. It reflects an ability to imagine alternatives to the texts of meat.

The only moment ever available to you is the present moment. Everything else is memory or imagination.

He had prepared his death much earlier, in his imagination, unaware that his imagination, more creative than he, was planning the reality of that death.

Thinking is different from perceiving and is held to be in part imagination, in part judgment