Quotes About Consciousness

Perception is not a window on objective reality. It is an interface that hides objective reality behind a veil of helpful icons.

In February of 1962, Joseph Bogen and Philip Vogel sliced in half the brain of Bill Jenkins—intentionally, methodically, and with careful premeditation. Jenkins, then in his late forties, recovered and went on to enjoy a quality of life that had eluded him for years. In the decade that followed, Bogen and Vogel split brain after brain in California, earning them the epithet "the West Coast butchers.

Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns - - the ones we don't know we don't know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tend to be the difficult ones.

Are you past pity? If you have consciousness now, if I something I can call "you" has something like "consciousness," I doubt you remember the last days. I play them over and over: I lift your wasted body onto the commode, your arms looped around my neck, aiming your bony bottom so that it will not bruise on a rail. Faintly you repeat, "Momma, Momma.

For only with your help shall They come to see–and with no more Than average daily terror– All things for what they are, All things for what they are.

When you are mindful of your intuition, you gain a mind full of inspiration.

Life is not something that happens to us, Life happens through us.

A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation.

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

One thing is fact. The events of your life are created by you, and those events come to you through your feelings.

The soul knows everything. Be who you are and your life will transform forever.

Life isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be.

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple.

We automatically give to each person we meet, but we choose what we give. Our words, our actions, must consciously set the stage for the life we wish to lead.

I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.

Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.

As you walk and eat and travel, be where you are. Otherwise you will miss most of your life.

In my own life, I decided to leave meat off my plate in medical school, but was a bit slow to realise that dairy products and eggs are not health foods either.

All there is in your life is the eternal now moment - and your experience of this moment is created by the programming in your head.

I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.

Thought is the fountain of action, life and manifestation; make the fountain pure, and all will be pure.

If you learn to respond as if it's the first day in your life and the very last day, then you will have spent this day very well.

We tend to think of meditation in only one way. But life itself is a meditation.