Quotes About Consciousness

We are figments of the same imagination… We are one

The spiritual path is an inward journey. On the spiritual path, the external life remains the same, but you begin the inward journey towards the truth.

Remaining aware of awareness, witnessing it thru every experience within without one, is the way and the goal both...Be Happy and keep smiling...

The Soul's sacred ground of being is the foundation for your doing. -- from the book, Doing a 360, page 135

Every human creates his own imagined version of the world, and of himself. Every human is therefore Brahma, creator of his own aham.Aham Brahmasmi, I am Brahma. Tat tvam asi, so are you.

Make sure your worst enemy doesn't live between your two ears.

It ain't what you eat but how you chew it.

Pidän ihmistä vaaleanpunaisena aistidatan kokoelmana.

He may gain consciousness and feel like talking. I could leave a nurse here but their damned professional cheeriness depresses introspective men. Talk to him if he feels like it, and if he wants a doctor call me on this.

Can we drop the 'artificial intelligence'? It's a bit like me calling you a meat-based processing system.

if human beings really grasped how synthetic their world was - how much of it was stitched together not from direct perception, but from interpolation, memory, educated guesswork - they would go quietly mad.

We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.

Our separation from each other is an optical illusion.

The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it Intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

Knowledge exists in two forms - lifeless, stored in books, and alive, in the consciousness of men. The second form of existence is after all the essential one; the first, indispensable as it may be, occupies only an inferior position.

True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

How many people are trapped in their everyday habits: part numb, part frightened, part indifferent? To have a better life we must keep choosing how we're living.

Of what is significant in one's own existence one is hardly aware, and it certainly should not bother the other fellow. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life?

If the moon, in the act of completing its eternal way around the earth, were gifted with self-consciousness, it would feel thoroughly convinced that it was traveling its way of its own accord. . . . So would a Being, endowed with higher insight and more perfect intelligence, watching man and his doings, smile about man's illusion that he was acting according to his own free will.

Nella vita quotidiana sono il classico solitario, ma la consapevolezza di appartenere alla comunità invisibile di quelli che lottano per la verità, per la bellezza e per la giustizia mi ha risparmiato ogni sensazione di isolamento

For us physicists believe the separation between past, present, and future is only an illusion, although a convincing one.