Quotes About Consciousness

Život je, sada to znam, samo duga?ak niz provera naših telesnih i mentalnih senzora, odnosno onih ta?aka koje odre?uju naše mesto u prostoru u kojem prebivamo. Zbog toga, verovatno, pamtim samo onaj trenutak naglog prelaska iz relativnog reda u totalni haos.

Svako pamti na svoj na?in, svako živi sam u svom svetu, svako misli da je on onaj misle?i subjekat koji nam svojim postojanjem omogu?ava da uživamo u onome što vidimo kao stvarnost sveta.

You can fool everyone else, but you can't fool your own mind.

There is no reason to ever have the same thought twice, unless you like having that thought. I

The Peregrine Falcon is the fastest animal in the world, capable of speeds of at least 242 miles per hour and potentially more than 300 miles per hour, and is able to make turns that generate 27 Gs (one G is the force of gravity, and humans lose consciousness at 9 Gs).

Maybe we're all in somebody's dream. Maybe everything's a dream, and nothing else.

I sleep lightly and tread to keep my head out of the sea of dreams.

It's the same old conundrum. You couldn't ask questions about self-awareness until you became self-aware, but you couldn't become self-aware until you were able to grasp the concept of self-awareness.

There is no time in the mind,

Welcome to the dawn of Aquarius, where every thought is an identical, hexagonal section of the Hive Mind.

Curiosity—actual curiosity—was one of the hallmarks of sentience and self-awareness

There, in the dirty sludge of a winter highway, he learned for the first time that a lot of life is all in the mind.

Only one who is self-aware can question her own self-awareness.

my grandfather is right, then death is only going to be a doorway from this world into Heaven. And if he's wrong, then it's simply going to be the end of my consciousness. I won't feel anything, I won't know that I'm dead, I will just come to an end.

There's a part of me that knows that I'll never die. There's a part of me that knows better.

Be here now. Be someplace else later. Is that so complicated?

To kill an animal in order to satisfy your nutritional desires, not your nutritional needs, that seems to me to be completely unacceptable.

It is the future that we are more likely to think of immediately when the idea of progress is brought up," says Robert Nisbet, "but it was only when men became conscious of a long past . . . that a consciousness of progressive movement from past to present became possible" (History of the Idea of Progress, New York, 1980, p. 323).

Insight meditation11 requires neither a blank mind, generating special imagery nor repeating a mantra, but trains the mind to dispassionately observe the phenomena constantly appearing on its luminous screen.

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.

A crassly arbitrary method can be avoided only when it is accepted that etymological statements are historical and not authoritative and that semantic statements must be based on the social linguistic consciousness related to usage.

Once you awaken, you will have no interest in judging those who sleep.

When you eventually see through the veils to how things really are, you will keep saying again and again, this is certainly not like we thought it was." - Rumi