Quotes About Consciousness

A. J. Wheeler. He says: "Nothing is more important about the quantum principle than this, that it destroys the concept of the world as 'sitting out there,' with the observer safely separated from it by a 20-centimeter slab of plate glass. Even to observe so minuscule an object as an electron, we must shatter the glass.

Arousal leaves us mind-blind.

Affect, Imagery, Consciousness , a four-volume work so dense that its readers were evenly divided between those who understood it and thought it was brilliant and those who did not understand it and thought it was brilliant.

This is the real lesson of Blink: It is not enough simply to explore the hidden recesses of our unconscious. Once we know about how the mind works — and about the strengths and weaknesses of human judgment — it is our responsibility to act.

I think that the task of figuring out how to combine the best of conscious deliberation and instinctive judgment is one of the great challenges of our time.

This is the price we pay for the many benefits of the locked door. When we ask people to explain their thinking -- particularly thinking that comes from the unconscious -- we need to be careful in how we interpret their answers.

It seems the father of the unconscious agreed: When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature.

When you are drunk, your understanding of your true self changes.

The dead. Do they sleep? Why should they, when we cannot?

If you are in a country that is progressive, the woman is progressive. If you're in a country that reflects the consciousness toward the importance of education, it's because the woman is aware of the importance of education. But in every backward country you'll find the women are backward, and in every country where education is not stressed its because the women don't have education.

Winning and losing are feelings; something in us knows if we have won or lost.

Rise above the limited conditions of pleasure and pain, success and failure, happiness and sorrow, that all the countless unenlightened beings in creation are slaves to.

Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

A millionaires' mindset focus moves from posessions to feelings, once they become conscious and awake.

As you think and act, so your world becomes.

Judgment is a negative frequency.

Live in this moment ... for it is the only moment we have!

All that you are is all around you.

Reality is based mainly on knowledge, what you do not know doesn't exit for you.

You only have to doze a moment, and all is lost. For ruin and salvation both have their source inside you.

The highest level of success every moment is 'being alive

Enlightenment is not a rocket science, it is the pure awareness of something deep within you that is ageless, formless and undefinable.

When you go into the world you would not even notice when you become dead

To consciously meditate is to lose influence over the outer world.