Quotes About Consciousness

He thinks about how, whatever being alive is, with all its pasts and presents and futures, it is most itself in the moments when you surface from a depth of numbness or forgetfulness that you didn't even know you were at, and break the surface.

Mind and matter are mysterious and, when they come together, bounteous.

See how it's deep in our animal nature, Daniel said. Not to see what's happening right in front of our eyes.

God almighty. It is the dregs, really, to be living in a time when even your dreams have to be post-postmodern consciouser-than-thou.

Looking in the mirror suddenly she thinks that we all know our dates of birth but that every year there is another date that we pass over without knowing what it is but it is just as important it is the other date the death date.

The longer Sacha lives the more insane she realizes the species she belongs to is.

And which comes first? her unbearable mother is saying. What we see or how we see?

Know thyself, for in thyself is to be found all that there is to be known," is still the rule for the wise student. If each one of us would scientifically regard ourselves as centres of force, holding the matter of our bodies within our radius of control, and thus working through and in them, we should have a hypothesis whereby the entire cosmic scheme could be interpreted.

Christ when He said: "the kingdom of God is within you," thus pointing all human atoms to the centre of life or energy within themselves, and teaching them that from and through that centre they must expand and grow. Each one of us is conscious of being centred within himself;

This may sound like a wild speculation, yet, judging from analogy, there may perhaps be within the planetary sphere an Entity Whose consciousness is as far removed from that of man as the consciousness of man is from that of the atom of chemistry.

Initiation, or the process of undergoing an expansion of consciousness, is part of the normal process of evolutionary development, viewed on a large scale, and not from the standpoint of the individual.

Polly was always shocked to learn how complacent she was, when she was certain of her good intentions.

Six a.m.!" Xander cried. "I know that's a number on my clock, but I've never actually been awake to personally witness it!

Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.

Beauvoir was untouched by the criticisms; her diary was a record of one consciousness, her own: "This is what I saw and how I saw it. I have not tried to say more.

One can only remember what has been consciously experienced.

our production of the world, our interpretation of it, what we've been told to experience and what we've been told we have to do, both worry and distress me. I don't want to live in someone else's dream.

We know ourselves in the extinguishable light, but we know ourselves in another universe

I have just transcended my epoch; I am alive outside written memory.

I did not do those things; I only watched, watched myself act, react.

I don't know a thing yet, and I haven't lived. I'm starting to now, aren't I? No, you're asleep, you're always asleep.

All I feel is the tingle of this existence, or non-existence

the litup soul/self I have been From time to time I can't remember

Have I come from another world to inhabit this body of mine?