Quotes About Consciousness

Abram os olhos e vejam o máximo que puderem antes que eles se fechem para sempre.

Here was the worst curse: he managed to force the dream from his conscious mind often enough that when it returned to him (opening the pantry door, say, recalling the sweep of floodwater), the experience of it became fresh and bleeding once more.

suave y con acento. «Niños, el cerebro está envuelto por una oscuridad total —dice la voz—. Flota en un líquido transparente en el interior del cráneo y jamás recibe luz. Pero a pesar de eso el mundo que construye en nuestra mente está lleno de luz, rebosante de colores y de movimiento. ¿Cómo puede ser que el cerebro, que jamás conoce una chispa de luz, construya en nuestro interior un

Every time he blinks, a memory ripples across the undersides of his eyelids:

Ce n'est pas la réalite.

Frederick blinks several times. As he often does when addressed in class, waiting for his internal life to catch up with his external one.

Do we have our heads in the sand, Madame? Or do they?" "Maybe everybody does

Open your eyes, and see what you can see with them before they close forever

He scans the field. Trees, sky, hay. Darkness falling like velvet. Already a few pale stars. Marie-Laure breathes the measured breath of sleep. Everyone should behave as if he carries the real thing. The locksmith reties the stone inside the bag and slips it back into his rucksack. He can feel its tiny weight there, as though he has slipped it inside his own mind: a knot.

Open your eyes, concludes the man, and see what you can with them before they close forever, and

To close your eyes is to guess nothing of blindness.

Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.

So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?

The brain is locked in total darkness, of course, children, says the voice. It floats in a clear liquid inside the skull, never in the light. And yet the world it constructs in the mind is full of light. It brims with color and movement. So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?

What I am is a thinking soul, not a piece of matter, and I know about this soul and its thoughts better than I know about any physical thing. Because

God, or nature, has no use for such categories as good and bad.

There are two worlds. The world you understand and the world you don't. These worlds exist side by side, sometimes only centimeters apart, and the great majority of people spend their entire lives in one without being aware of the other. It's like living in one side of a mirror: you think there is nothing on the other side until one day a switch is thrown and suddenly the mirror is transparent. You see the other side.

It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people.

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

The human psyche shows that each individual is an extension of all of existence.

'Psychedelic' means mind-expanding.

When we turn on our observation capabilities, we become much more in the moment and much more powerful. Psychic powers have been known to develop from consistent practice of paying attention. It's available to us all. It's all in what we choose to practice.

One can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psychological processes that are around us.

There has been a great gulf in psychological thought between the perception of space and objects on one hand and the perception of meaning on the other.