Quotes About Consciousness

It isn't only the terror everywhere, and the fear of being conscious of it, that freezes people. It's more than that. People know they are in a society dead or dying. They are refusing emotion because at the end of every emotion are property, money, power. They work and despise their work, and so freeze themselves.

I'm going to make the obvious point that maybe the word neurotic means the condition of being highly conscious and developed. The essence of neurosis is conflict. But the essence of living now, fully, not blocking off to what goes on, is conflict. In fact I've reached the stage where I look at people and say - he or she, they are whole at all because they've chosen to block off at this stage or that. People stay sane by blocking off, by limiting themselves.

different. Let's give up meat and dairy." "Except for bacon and yogurt.

But notice that where you must do work not your own, assume these responsibilities; see that you do not allow them to be thrust upon you. What you undertake open-eyed will seldom be made later a cause of martyrdom and sullenness.

Breathing is one of the few involuntary actions of the body over which we can exercise voluntary control. That is to say, it is on the border-line between the regions of the conscious and the unconscious. The man or woman who can speak or be silent as he chooses is the individual who has self-control.

Practice makes perfect," is misleading. When practicing, many people do the behavior by rote—without thinking about what they're doing. But this kind of practice does not make perfect. Quite the opposite. Instead of leading to perfection, rote practice tends to make permanent the current less-than-desirable level of ability.

The important thing is to be aware of your needs and wants, so you can go about getting them met with full consciousness. If you pretend that you have no needs for sex, for affection, for emotional support, you are lying to yourself, and you will wind up trying to get your needs met by indirect methods that don't work very well. [...] Do not commit yourself to a lifetime of hinting and hoping

If I truly believe in some other people's inferiority, is it okay for me to play this out in scene? We hope not. Ideally, the top is pretending to be an oppressor that she doesn't identify with.

all life is conscious, but it is not conscious of being conscious

He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.

Outer-body-experiences are hard to describe, since all we really know are our five senses. Suffice it to say that there was a tingling sensation and a sense of the laws of gravity loosening their grip on my body, much like being an astronaut floating above the surface of my house.

I don't deserve a soul, yet I still have one. I know because it hurts.

I don't deserve a soul, yet I still have one. I know because it hurts.

After you're dead and buried and floating around whatever place we go to, what's going to be your best memory of earth? What one moment for you defines what it's like to be alive on this planet. What's your takeaway? Fake yuppie experiences that you had to spend money on, like white water rafting or elephant rides in Thailand don't count. I want to hear some small moment from your life that proves you're really alive.

humankind's fundamental understanding of the nature of reality. If an observer could alter the universe by his observation, then didn't the universe require consciousness to even exist?

this instant right here and now is always nothing less than the totality of everything there is." —Robert Pirsig

I would define qualia as subjective experiences, sensations," he replied, "that only conscious entities seem to be able to have. How a thing seems. How it feels. How it affects a consciousness emotionally and spiritually. The pain of a toothache. The beauty of a sunset. The taste of wine.

Kurzweil's The Singularity is Near, have ruined me. As

In each of us there is another whom we do not know." —Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist and founder of analytical psychology

Microtubules are the key ingredient for human consciousness, and are able to exhibit quantum effects. Even in the warm, wet, and noisy environment of the brain.

Reality was only rendered when it was observed. Particles were everywhere, until someone peeked, and then they took a discrete location.

The past cannot remember the past. The future can't generate the future. The cutting edge of this instant right here and now is always nothing less than the totality of everything there is." —Robert Pirsig

because if she were no longer truly human, how could she judge his humanity?

I assume you're familiar with quantum entanglement. Everything in the universe is connected in some way with every other thing. Drove Einstein crazy. And quantum physics suggests that the universe is shaped by consciousness rather than the other way around. Another point that can make even the most rational physicist spiritual. The state of the universe only comes into being when it's observed.