Quotes About Consciousness

We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world.

Most human beings believe that life brings closed experiences of absolute, irreversible change; that their greatest sources of conflict are external to themselves; that they are the single and active protagonists of their own existence; that their existence operates through continuous time within a consistent, causally interconnected reality; and that inside this reality events happen for explainable and meaningful reasons.

It is true that your world is only a mirror of you.

Twain broke with the tradition of asking "Who Am I?" and its species-wide variant "Who Is Man?" on the grounds that a "who-question" is a leading question. It predisposes us to expect the answer to be a sentient being, not unlike ourselves, "whom" we're trying to characterize.

Vivamos primero, que las observaciones vendrán luego por sí solas.

Everything dreamed because it was alive, and everything lived because it was permitted to dream.

I had become an inward being, and I walked as in an inward world; everything outside me became a dream; what I had understood till now became unintelligible.

It's gradually becoming "serious," my situation, I realize this.

the conscious self doesn't create thoughts; it receives them.

Whatever else it might be, the divine is certainly the thing that imposes with maximum intensity the sensation of being alive.

The embodied self is the same person who woke to the world in a burst of visonary immediacy, who soon found that he was not the center of that world but on the contrary, a dependent and even hapless creature, and who then discovered that he was doomed to die

The recognition of oneself as a part of nature, and reliance on natural things, are disappearing for hundreds of millions of people who do not know that anything is being lost.

the irrational will have its say, perhaps because 'irrational' is the wrong word for it.

If I know this, I ought to be able to escape the stupider kinds of illusion. The absolute nature of things is independent of my senses (which are all I have to perceive with), and what I perceive is an image of my own psyche.

Hector was sent to his office to wait, while Rat-face was restored to such limited consciousness as his heredity and his fate permitted him to enjoy.

It's not silly at all. The insides of our own minds are the scariest things there are.

It's not silly at all. The insides of our own minds are the scariest things there are." Scarier than vampires?

one must not allow the clock and the calender to blind him to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle --and mystery

quality of your thinking determines the quality of your life.

Live in a way that feels true to you and pay attention to the small miracles every day brings.

To breathe properly is to live properly.

Remember, we see the world not as it is but as we are.

you begin to sense the sacredness of your being.

you want to live a more peaceful, meaningful life, you must think more peaceful, meaningful thoughts.