Quotes About Consciousness

Whereever you are, you are one with the clouds and one with the sun and the stars you see. You are one with everything. That is more true than I can say, and more true than you can hear.

The true purpose [of Zen] is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes... Zen practice is to open up our small mind.

Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.

Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as the reality of the external world, and it is just as imperfectly reported to us through the data of consciousness as is the external world through the indications of our sensory organs.

Where id is, there shall ego be

The ego is not master in its own house.

public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.

In this way the ego detaches itself from the external world. It is more correct to say: Originally the ego includes everything, later it detaches from itself the external world. The ego-feeling we are aware of now is thus only a shrunken vestige of a far more extensive feeling - a feeling which embraced the universe and expressed an inseparable connection of the ego with the external world.

Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?

We are alone in confronting a different state of affairs; as we see it, there is a new kind of psychical material intervening between the content of the dream and the results of our reflections: the latent dream-content reached by our procedure, or the dream-thoughts. It is from this latent content, not the manifest, that we worked out the solution to the dream.

The state in which the ideas existed before being made conscious is called by us repression

The ego represents what may be called reason and common sense, in contrast to the id, which contains the passions.

Originally the ego includes everything, later it detaches from itself the external world.

The normal sequence is that energy is prompted at the perceptual system, passes into consciousness, and thence to the motor system, where it is discharged by action. (I feel an unpleasant sensation, realize that I have been bitten by a mosquito, raise my hand, and swat the insect.)

The ego is first and foremost a bodily ego; it is not merely a surface entity, but is itself the projection of a surface.

Alg? , Ben için, O'da güdülerin oynad??? role kar??l?k gelir. Tutkular? içinde bar?nd?ran O'nun tersine, Ben ak?l ve saÄŸduyu olarak adland?rd?klar?m?z? temsil eder. Tüm bunlar herkesçe bilinen popüler farklarla örtüÅŸür, ama yaln?zca ortalama ya da ideal durumda doÄŸru olarak kabul edilmelidir." sayfa 49

At first this gives the impression that the psychical intensity7 of the particular ideas was not taken into consideration at all in their selection for the dream, but only the varying nature and degree of their determination.

We have formed the idea that in each individual there is a coherent organization of mental processes; and we call this his ego. It is to this ego that consciousness is attached; the ego controls the approaches to motility-that is, to the discharge of excitations into the external world; it is the mental agency which supervises all its own constituent processes, and which goes to sleep at night, though even then it exercises the censorship on dreams.

É seguro supor, portanto, que o que foi sonhado no sonho é uma representação da realidase, a verdadeira lembrança, ao passo que a continuação do sonho, pelo contrário, meramente representa o que aquele que sonha deseja. Incluir algo num sonho dentro de um sonho equivale assim a desejar que a coisa descrita como um sonho jamais tivesse acontecido.

Na opinião de Delboeuf, existe apenas um critério válido para determinar se estamos sonhando ou acordados, e esse é o critério puramente empírico do fato de acordarmos.

Jeg tror at den hellighet vi tilkjennegir de ti bud, sløver vår sans for erkjennelse av virkeligheten.

During sleep I took the dream-images as real owing to my mental habit (which cannot be put to sleep) of assuming the existence of an external world with which I contrast my own ego.

Ben'de yaln?zca en derin olanlar deÄŸil en yüce olanlar da bilinçsiz kalabilir demek zorunday?z. Böylelikle, en baÅŸta bilinçli Ben hakk?nda söylediÄŸimiz ÅŸey; onun her ÅŸeyden önce bir Beden-Ben'i olduÄŸu bilgisi, bize sergileniyormuÅŸ gibidir." Sigmund Freud, 'Ben ve O', sayfa 52

Ben ile O aras?ndaki ayr?m da çok kat? olarak ele al?nmamal?; unutmayal?m ki Ben, O'nun özel bir biçimde ayr?mlaÅŸm?? bir k?sm?d?r." Sigmund Freud, 'Ben ve O', sayfa 69