Quotes About Consciousness

Je ne me réveille jamais entier ; des parts de moi restent engluées dans le sommeil.

Ecco. Bisogna distinguere due pene, Oscar, la sofferenza fisica e la sofferenza morale. La sofferenza fisica la si subisce. La sofferenza morale la si sceglie.» «Non capisco.» «Se ti piantano dei chiodi nei polsi o nei piedi, non puoi far altro che avere male. Subisci. Invece, all'idea di morire, non sei obbligato ad avere male. Non sai che cos'è. Dipende dunque da te.»

Our conscious motivations, ideas, and beliefs are a blend of false information, biases, irrational passions, rationalizations, prejudices, in which morsels of truth swim around and give the reassurance, albeit false, that the whole mixture is real and true. The thinking processes attempt to organize this whole cesspool of illusions according to the laws of plausibility. This level of consciousness is supposed to reflect reality; it is the map we use for organizing our life.

We may know ourselves, and yet even with all the efforts we make, we do not know ourselves. We know our fellowman, and yet we do not know him, because we are not a thing, and our fellowman is not a thing. The further we reach into the depths of our being, on someone else's being, the more the goal of knowledge eludes us.

Freedom to creat and construct, to wonder and to venture. Such freedom requires that the individual be active and responsible, not a slave or a well-fed cog in the machine . . . It is not enough that men are not slaves; if social conditions further the existence of automatons, the result will not be love of life, but love of death.

We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.

The paradoxical situation with a vast number of people today is that they are half asleep when awake, and half awake when asleep, or when they want to sleep.

The basic for any approach to self-transformation is an ever-increasing awareness of reality and the shedding of illusions.

Reality imposes its law on man, laws that he can only escape in dreams or in states of trance—or in insanity.

Man can only know the nagation, never the position of ultimate reality.

all of us are more or less insane, or more or less asleep

I watch and try not to think. Everything is a film: a fly on the windshield trying to get in, a delivery truck parked in front of whatever to deliver something I will never savor, a plane carrying flesh messages across the sky. The movie is wonderful to watch when I'm not in it.

Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think.

Your present is responsible for each and every minute of your past and future

Arise, we have eternity for sleeping!' OMAR KHAYYAM

it's better to wake up amid the pangs of desire than amid those of remorse.

The white man is in love with the past, with dead things, and soon he will become one.

Naturally we project that the moon is always there in space-time, even when we are not looking. Quantum physics says no. When we are not looking, the moon's possibility wave spreads, albeit by a minuscule amount. When we look, the wave collapses instantly; thus the wave could not be in space-time. It makes more sense to adapt an idealist metaphysic assumption: There is no object in space-time without a conscious subject looking at it.

All the world of experience, including matter, is the material manifestation of transcendent forms of consciousness.

Consciousness is the agency that collapses the wave of a quantum object, which exists in potentia, making it an immanent particle in the world of manifestation.

The evidence for God is within us, but to see it we have to be subtle. To live it, we have to grow.

Consciousness is the true reality, and matter is an epiphenomenon bordering on trivial.

Moreover, it seems absurd that an epiphenomenon of matter can affect matter: If consciousness is an epiphenomenon, how can it collapse the spread-out wave of a quantum object to a localized particle when it takes a quantum measurement?

Why, then, in our ordinary experience do we feel so separate? This separateness, insists the mystic, is an illusion.