Quotes About Consciousness

Loneliness is, I think, people's biggest fear, whether they are conscious of it or not.

People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

The observation of an object by an observer results in an equivalent observation of the observer by the observed object.

Downgrade the "now". Realise that the current moment is no more real than the past moments in your life.

If a loved one dies, you might take some comfort from the knowledge that this period of time in which your loved one is dead has, in fact, no greater reality than the time when your loved one was alive. According to physics, it is just as valid to consider your loved one as alive as it is to consider them dead!

I have long contended that consciousness is the way information feels.

The past, present and future lurk in every moment of time. Eternity is hidden in every moment of time. Do you understand?' 'No.' 'Never mind.

Qué es la verdad? ¿La negación de la mentira? ¿O la afirmación de un hecho? Y si el hecho es una mentira, ¿qué es entonces la verdad? ¿Quién está lleno de sentimientos que le arrastran y quién es la cobertura vacía de un frío cráneo? ¿Quién? ¿Qué es la verdad, Geralt? ¿En qué consiste la verdad?

Attraverso la Cortina strappata passeranno allucinazioni. È una buona definizione di qualcosa che non ha una forma propria, ma la trova nel cervello di chi la osserva. Sempre che quel cervello sopporti una simile prova.

Meglio morire che vivere con la consapevolezza di aver fatto qualcosa che ha bisogno del perdono altrui.»

Were I to attempt to be good to everyone, to the entire world and to all the creatures living in it, it would be a drop of fresh water in the salt sea. In other words, a wasted effort. Thus, I decided to do specific good; good which would not go to waste. I'm good to myself and my immediate circle.

It drew us, because life is made of bits of the present that stay in the mind. The world itself, really, is made of that.

We ?nie nigdy si? nie s?yszy, tylko po prostu wie si?, co s?ycha?.

You are where you are because of your thinking. Your thinking dictates your decisions. Decisions are choices.

If, in fact, it is what's inside us that makes all the difference, then the difference is made when we choose what goes inside." ~ The Traveler's Gift

You are where you are because of your thinking. Your thinking dictates your decisions. Decisions are choices. Years

What were the things that really challenged me, made me wake up to my way of thinking that presupposed an industrialized system? In five words. Gentle. Small. Humble. Slow. Simple.

Most people assume that meditation is all about stopping thoughts, getting rid of emotions, somehow controlling the mind. But actually it's … about stepping back, seeing the thought clearly, witnessing it coming and going.

We spend so little time in the present moment that it's anything but ordinary.

It is when our hearts are stirred that we become most aware of what they contain.

Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there -- I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television.

We all feel shame when we're sitting on the cushion and stuff pops up in our head.

She has the mysterious solitude of ambiguous states; she hovers in a no-man's land between life and death, sleeping and waking.

I was the only man alive who knew time had begun again.