Quotes About Consciousness

How to get taken: Spend most of your time making sure you're not.

On the occasion of every act ask thyself, How is this with respect to me? Shall I repent of it? A little time and I am dead, and all is gone.

We are always tortured by our memory of the last time we were with anyone, what we said, what we did not say.

If you analyze the bad times you find that it's because you wanted to have a bad time.

Do we spend most of our days trying to remember or to forget? Do we spend most of our time running towards or away from our lives?

I see Death as the part of us that knows all the time that we're going to die, reminding us to live properly.

If a person kills a tree before its time, it is like having murdered a soul.-Rabbi Nachman

Scientists who have dedicated their lives to building machines that think, feel that it's only a matter of time before some form of consciousness is captured in the laboratory.

Ketamine's such a waste of time drug. All you do when you're on ketamine is go: 'Oh, I'm on drugs. I don't feel good, I don't feel bad, I'm just on drugs...'

The Mysterious Pass, which opens beyond space and time, is inconceivable by means of discursive thought and has, by definition, no fixed position.

I don't want to pretend to tell that I always feel the presence of God because I don't. My consciousness is very often closed to that feeling - most of the time.

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself. All day long, the mill of his brain is grinding, and his thoughts, not those of other things, are his history. These are his life, and they are not written. Everyday would make a whole book of 80,000 words -- 365 books a year. Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man -- the biography of the man himself cannot be written.

Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought.

Nothing exists; all is a dream. God—man—the world—the sun, the moon, the wilderness of stars—a dream, all a dream; they have no existence. Nothing exists save empty space—and you!

Nothing exists. All is a dream. God—man—the world—the sun, the moon, the wilderness of stars—a dream, all a dream; they have no existence. Nothing exists save empty space—and you…. And you are not you—you have no body, no blood, no bones, you are but a thought.

I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit.

Life itself is only a vision, a dream. Nothing exists; all is a dream. God--man--the world--the sun, the moon, the wilderness of stars--a dream, all a dream; they have no existence. Nothing exists save empty space--and you!

There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a Dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And You are but a Thought — a vagrant Thought, a useless Thought, a homeless Thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities.

It gave an appalling idea of the value of an hour, and I thought I could never waste one again without remorse and terror.

As a rule it will listen to neither a dull speaker nor a bright one. It refuses all persuasion. The dull speaker wearies it and sends it far away in idle dreams; the bright speaker throws out stimulating ideas which it goes chasing after and is at once unconscious of him and his talk. You cannot keep your mind from wandering, if it wants to; it is master, not you. **About the mind

everything in a dream is more deep and strong and real than is ever its pale imitation in the unreal life which is ours when we go awake and clothed with our artificial selves in this vague and dull-tinted artificial world.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscious: this is the ideal life.

Zihnin ahlaki aksam? yap?s? uyar?nca, özgürce ÅŸu veya bu eylemde bulunur ve zihnin bu konuya iliÅŸkin duygular?na bir hayli kay?ts?z kal?r - yani, kal?rd?, eÄŸer zihnin herhangi bir duygusu olsayd?; ki yoktur. Zihin sadece bir termometredir: s?cakl??? ve soÄŸukluÄŸu gösterir, ikisi hakk?nda da daha fazlas?n? umursamaz.

Bilinç, insan?n iyiliÄŸine kar?? kay?ts?zd?r: kendi arzular?n? doyurmak haricinde hiçbir ÅŸeyle ilgilenmez. Ä°nsan?n iyiliÄŸine yönelik ÅŸeyleri tercih etmesi için eÄŸitilebilir, ama onlar? yaln?zca kendisini diÄŸer ÅŸeylere k?yasla daha memnun edeceÄŸi için tercih edecektir.