Quotes About Consciousness

Detesto exibições de animais amestrados. Por quanto sofrimento aquelas pobres criaturas têm de passar a fim de dar uns poucos momentos de prazer a homens vazios de qualquer pensamento ou sentimento por eles.

Much of what you see out there is manufactured by your brain, painted in like computer-generated graphics in a movie; only a very small part of the inputs to your occipital lobe comes directly from the external world, the rest comes from internal memory stores and other processes.

Thoughts are not who you are, they're habitual patterns in the mind, nothing more and as soon as you see them that way, they lose their sting. I think of them as the noise of a radio in another room; I can pay attention, sing along with them if I want and also choose to ignore them.

the gap between wanting and getting, while the 'being' mode has no voice, it's just directly sensing something; and being in the eye of the experience.

No matter how many decathlons you run, how many shoes you buy or how famous you get, those unresolved, unbearable feelings exist below. Freud was on the button when he said you have to bring your darkness into the light if you want to free yourself from those deep unconscious emotions. Just like a virus has to be sweated out, your malignant thoughts and feelings have to surface.

We have to stop speaking about the Earth being in need of healing. The Earth doesn't need healing, we do.

The time has come to realize that supersensible knowledge has now to arise from the materialistic grave.

The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.

I had seen beauty, but the beauty had burdened me with responsibility.

I am, as it were, an eye that the cosmos uses to look at itself.

I never consciously think of writing a so-called Christian novel. I don't think Albert Camus ever thought of writing an existentialist novel, either. I think of getting at, of building, a story.

When your Daemon is in charge, do not try to think consciously. Drift, wait, and obey.

A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.

The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you Don't go back to sleep! You must ask for what you really want. Don't go back to sleep! People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch, The door is round and open Don't go back to sleep!

How can I know anything about the past or the future, when the light of the Beloved shines only Now.

Try another way of looking. Try you looking and the whole universe seeing.

Is what I say true? Say yes quickly, if you know, if you've known it from before the beginning of the universe.

Work in the invisible world at least as hard as you do in the visible.

You're born naked and the rest is drag." In truth, you are not your clothes, you are not your profession, you are not your religion. You are an extension of the consciousness that guides the universe, for which there is no name because it cannot be defined. That's why all the superficial things you list as your identity are in reality your "drag.

First, some physicists insist that quantum mechanics cannot be formulated without taking into account the minds of observers. They argue that minds cannot be reduced to physics because physics presupposes the minds of physicists

The world is only the size of each man's head.

After all, most of living has to happen in the mind.

Russell Edson: The things we took for granted do not take us so.

Goddamn these sentiences, roared the tree with birds shrieking in its branches.