Quotes About Consciousness

Bazen etraf?m?zda o kadar esrarl? bir hâdise olur ki ince teferuat?na kadar bunu sezeriz, fakat hiçbir ?ey idrak etmeyiz; ruhumuzun içinde ikinci bir ruh her ?eyi anlar, fakat bize anlatmaz, böyle korkunç i?aretlerle bizi muamman?n derinliklerine atar ve bo?ar.

Bizden uzakla?mad?kça bize görünmeyen s?hhat, itiyad?n verdi?i hissizlikle, sa?lamlar?n ?uurundan kaç?p nas?l ve nereye saklan?yor?

Ah ben ruhumun içindeki o ikinci ruhu bilirim, esrar? gören gözleriyle ve esrar? duyan kulaklar?yla her ?eyi sezer ve bana sezdirir ve beni aldatamaz, ah, içim beni aldatmaz.

Rüyalar?m?z, bir delinin uyan?k ?uurundaki abuk sabuk hayallerin tecellisinden ba?ka nedir? Hepimiz günün bir k?sm?nda, yani uyurken deliriyoruz ve belki de akl?n çemberinden, s?k?nt?s?ndan kurtulan ruhumuz böylelikle dinleniyor. Biz rüyalar?m?zda ç?ld?r?yoruz, deliler uyan?kken rüya görüyorlar.

When you die, there is nothing. [...] to describe it in any way is to give it form.

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor. THICH NHAT HANH

If, as some savants of consciousness suggest, we are actually agreeing to create, from moment to moment, everything we perceive as real, then it stands to reason that we're also responsible for keeping it going in some harmonious manner.

There's never a good time to tell someone that you don't really exist.

I saw their living mouths moving in conversation and their dead mouths grinning the taut-drawn grins of corpses. Their living eyes I saw, and their dead eyes still-staring. Had it not been for the fear that I was going crazy, I would have found it an interesting experience, a trip such as no drug could possibly produce. Asleep and dreaming, I saw dead men living; awake, I saw living men dead.

Ramirez: Yes. Serial killers and most killers in general have a dead conscience. Carlo: When you say a dead conscience that means they don't respond— Ramirez: No morals, no scruples, no conscience. They are ... uh ... they sometimes ... some of them don't even care if they live or die themselves and they are just the walking dead.

As Alexander would confess years later, sex and sleep more than anything else reminded him that he was mortal. One

Panpsychists believe that consciousness is a fundamental and ubiquitous feature of the physical world. An increasing number of philosophers and even some neuroscientists are coming around to the idea that it may be our best hope for solving the problem of consciousness

Panpsychism is the view that consciousness is a fundamental and ubiquitous feature of physical reality.

If Galileo traveled in time to the present day to hear that we are having difficulty giving a physical explanation of consciousness, he would most likely respond, "Of course you are, I designed physical science to deal with quantities not qualities!

Crowley also suggested that,

The truth is that everything is One, and this of course is not a numerical one.

Plato talks about something called anamnesis, which is when something long forgotten comes to the surface of a man's consciousness. Now, I'll admit that just sounds like a fancy word for remembering something, but actually it's more than that because with remembering, it's not necessary to have forgotten anything, which makes for a subtle distinction. That's what cinema does.

Perhaps being old is having lighted roomsInside your head, and people in them, acting.People you know, yet can't quite name.

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are.

Often one spends weeks trying to write a poem out of the conscious mind that never comes to anything - these are sort of 'ideal' poems that one feels ought to be written, but don't because (I fancy) they lack the vital spark of self-interest. A 'real' poem is a pleasure to write.

Qué libres somos cuando soñamos! Las barreras del tiempo, las limitaciones del espacio, las leyes de la lógica, las represiones de la conciencia... todo esto desaparece

Spinoza is more than happy with this conclusion: he is a thorough-going determinist 'Experience tells us clearly that men believe themselves to be free simply because they are conscious of their actions and unconscious of the causes whereby these actions are determined; further, it is plain that the dictates of the mind are simply another name for the appetites that vary according to the varying state of the body.

she was so upset by the report of the murder that she retired to her kitchen and fell down in a fit. After briefly regaining consciousness two days later she died on Wednesday 12th.

When we put our keys down, we should be conscious of putting them down. When we pick them up, we should be conscious of picking them up. That's all there is to zen. The best way to remember where we put things is to have a place for them. As the saying does, "All things in their place, and a place for all things.