Quotes About Consciousness

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Hakikatku adalah yang aku pikirkan, bukan apa yang aku rasakan

De werkelijkheid is louter illusie, maar wel een hardnekkige.

It's not gay if you didn't know it was a boy.

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

Je ne veux pas et Je ne peux pas concevoir un être qui survivrait à la mort de son corps.

I see a clock, but I cannot envision the clockmaker. The human mind is unable to conceive of the four dimensions, so how can it conceive of a God before whom a thousand years and a thousand dimensions are as one? Cosmic

A human being is a spatially and temporally limited piece of the whole of what we call the universe. He experiences himself and his feelings as separated from the rest, an optical illusion of his consciousness. The quest for liberation from this bondage [or delusion] is the sole object of real religion. Not nurturing the delusion but only overcoming it gives us the attainable measure of inner peace.

Why, if it weren't for this 'internal illumination' [i.e., sentience] the world would be nothing but a pile of dirt!

A human being is a spatially and temporally limited piece of the whole of what we call the universe. He experiences himself and his feelings as separated from the rest, an optical illusion of his consciousness. The quest for liberation from this bondage [or delusion] is the sole object of real religion. Not nurturing the illusion but only overcoming it gives us the attainable measure of inner peace.

The essential in the being of a man of my type lies precisely in what he thinks and how he thinks, not in what he does or suffers.

Un om ar trebui s? caute ceea ce este, nu ceea ce crede c? ar trebui sa fie.

Nulla darà la possibilità di sopravvivenza sulla terra quanto l'evoluzione verso una dieta vegetariana

No problem can be solved at the level of consciousness in which it was conceived.

Our brains read things, just like the happy squirrel sitting on a pond.

Insight is another name for awareness.

Many wise and true sermons are preached us every day by unconscious ministers in street, school, office, or home; even a fair table may become a pulpit, if it can offer the good and helpful words which are never out of season. Amy's conscience preached her a little sermon from that text, then and there, and she did what many of us do not always do—took the sermon to heart, and straightway put it in practice.

Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement.

The more a man knows about himself in relation to every kind of experience, the greater his chance of suddenly, one fine morning, realizing who in fact he is...

Each person is at each moment capable of remembering all that has ever happened to him and of perceiving everything that is happening everywhere in the universe.

Each person is at each moment capable of remembering all that has ever happened to him and of perceiving everything that is happening everywhere in the universe. The function of the brain and nervous system is to protect us from being overwhelmed and confused by this mass of largely useless and irrelevant knowledge, by shutting out most of what we should otherwise perceive or remember at any moment, and leaving only that very small and special selection which is likely to be practically useful.

Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs.

It's a very salutary thing to realize that the rather dull universe in which most of us spend most of our time is not the only universe there is. I think it's healthy that people should have this experience.

Well... ...That's what you always forget, isn't it? I mean, you forget to pay attention to what's happening. And that's the same as not being here and now.