Quotes About Consciousness

The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire.

Life itself is a privilege, but to live life to the fullest- well, that is a choice.

Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.

Life is too short to remain unnoticed

Life is a mirror that magnifies. What we see 'out there' is only a duplication of what we are inside.

You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the present.

If we want to change existing conditions, we must first transform ourselves, which means that we must become aware of our own actions, thoughts and feelings in everyday life.

I don't believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.

I think now, so late, too late, of the neighbor's lawn service, using leaf blowers to release herbicide all over their lovely roses. How all of that invisible death didn't disappear into the air. How it coated us, all of us, and that holding pond. How it masked us from ourselves. How it shone through us and we didn't even know it.

I had a wakefulness that I could not shake, and I was still drunk.

I remember thinking that I might be talking to the animals by the next morning. I might be rolling in the dirt, laughing hysterically under that merciless blue sky. Or I might find the brightness rising curious out of the top of my head, like a periscope—independent and lively, with nothing left beneath it but a husk.

Am I a person in my right mind?" "I don't know what you mean," I said, my standard ploy when I wanted time to think. With my right mind. "If there's a right mind, then there's a wrong mind." "I suppose so. Yes." "How do you get a wrong mind? Is it borned into you?

What can you do when your five senses are not enough? Because I still couldn't truly see it here, any more than I had seen it under the microscope, and that's what scared me the most. Why couldn't I see it?

When our poor, faultily sensitive vision can perceive a thing, we say that it is visible. When the nerves of touch can feel it, we say that it is tangible. Yet I tell you there are beings intangible to our physical sense, yet whose presence is felt by the spirit

You tell yourself this is no less or more real than bowling at Chipper's.[...] That this moment is the same as every other moment, that it makes no difference to the atoms, to the air, to the creature whose walls breathe all around you.

Nada que viva y respire es realmente objetivo, ni siquiera en estado de aislamiento, ni siquiera aunque lo único que poseyera al cerebro fuese el deseo autoinmolador de la verdad.

I did not feel as if I were a person but simply a receiving station for a series of transmissions.

Control blinked once, twice, three times.

We all live in a kind of continuous dream," I told him. "When we wake, it is because something, some event, some pinprick even, disturbs the edges of what we've taken as reality.

Yes, the knowledge of God is an inherent belief.[5.9] Inwardly, we all know this to be true.

we are haunting ourselves in the present from the past and the future via the ghost and the alien.

There are a lot of obstacles in the way of our understanding animal intelligence - not the least being that we can't even agree whether nonhuman species are conscious. We accept that chimps and dolphins experience awareness we like to think dogs and cats do. But what about mice and newts? What about a fly? Is anything going on there at all?

we cannot know what really happens, but only what we observe to happen.

Charles Sherrington, the founder of modern neurophysiology, contended in 1947 that brain processes alone cannot account for the full range of subjective mental phenomena, including conscious free will. "That our being should consist of two fundamental elements offers, I suppose, no greater inherent improbability than that it should rest on one only," he wrote.