Quotes About Consciousness

For after the subject is removed or the eye shut, we still retain an image of the things seen, though more obscure than when we see it...Imagination, therefore, is nothing more than decaying sense.

The conscious process is reflected in the imagination; the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling.

They say that none of us exists, except in the imagination of his fellows, other than as an intangible, invisible mentality.

Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?

You can offer your vibration on purpose. That's what visualization is. That's what imagination is: projecting thought energy on purpose.

In the deepest realm of being, is the imagination of ourselves. What is your next evolutionary leap? What are you imagining, (for yourself) right now?

You have to be careful what you imagine, because the act of imagining is the act of encouraging yourself to be a certain kind of person.

The way I think of the psychedelics is, they are catalysts to the imagination.

Physical reality springs from the imagination, which follows the path of your beliefs

The imagination is a dimension of nonlocal information

It behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.

Imagination, that dost so abstract us That we are not aware, not even when A thousand trumpets sound about our ears!

Special qualities are required of the essayist. A poem or a novel may spring from the inner consciousness of an author. Reasoning poers must be brought to reinforce imagination.

The idea of self is dependent upon attraction, aversion and memory. Memory is simply a serial account of attractions and aversions that don't exist now except in imagination.

Just because it's imaginary, doesn't mean it's not real.

Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.

I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.

The whole world is a cyclone. But once you have found the center, the cyclone disappears. This nothingness is the ultimate peak of consciousness.

I think; therefore I am.

The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality.

I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.

Lose your mind and come to your senses.

You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.

Look within!... The secret is inside you.