Quotes About Consciousness

Having undergone that disintegration and dying of past individuals and rebirth into something vastly more powerful, all these creatures had joined millions of years before into its own early Gravemind, far more than the sum of its parts.

I've asked for Philip K. Dick.

Reality abides in the eyes.

Kathy," she repeated. "Can you hear me?" Kathy nodded and her eyes rolled backward.

The flesh is not a nature that is essential to someone's identity. It is rather a deceptive way of seeing and experiencing oneself and one's world and thus a deceptive way of living in the world.

The rules of the universe that we think we know are buried deep in our processes of perception.

There is a quasi-scientific fable that if you can get a frog to sit quietly in a saucepan of cold water, and if you then raise the temperature of the water very slowly and smoothly so that there is no moment marked to be the moment at which the frog should jump, he will never jump. He will get boiled. Is the human species changing its own environment with slowly increasing pollution and rotting its mind with slowly deteriorating religion and education in such a saucepan?

The psychedelics are a powerful educational tool. They are the surest way to learn the arbitrariness of our ordinary perception. Many of us have had to use them to find out how little we knew.

When we think of coconuts or pigs, there are no coconuts or pigs in the brain.

he had never understood why it was better to kill plants than animals.

Visible light was a mere one octave on a keyboard fifteen meters wide—humanity's slice of reality.

And hope, that ancient seed, redeems the heart it feeds. The heartbeat of any conscious now is poised on the same choice that hope gives all of us, between shadows of the past, and the bright, blank page of any new day.

The fully mature man or woman, he said, has about two seconds left to live.

It's impossible to be really sad when you're asleep. You can be happy and afraid and angry in your dreams, but you have to be wide awake to be sad, don't you think?

I realised that she was early drunk, in that squall of coherence before slurred speech and clumsiness and collapse.

There is another reality beyond what we see with our eyes. You have to feel your way into that reality with your heart. There is no other way.

Nothing exists as we see it. Nothing we see is really there, as we think we are seeing it. Our eyes are liars. Everything that seems real, is merely part of the illusion. Nothing exists, as we think it does. Not you. Not me. Not this room. Nothing.

What I am saying is that reality—as you see it, and as most people see it—is nothing more than an illusion. There is another reality, beyond what we see with our eyes. You have to feel your way into that reality with your heart. There is no other way.

TwierdzÄ™, ?e rzeczywisto??, taka, jakÄ… znamy, jakÄ… zna ogóÅ', to nic wiÄ™cej ni? iluzja. Za tym, co widzimy oczami, istnieje inna rzeczywisto??. Trzeba jÄ… rozpozna? sercem. Nie ma innego sposobu.

The heartbeat of any conscious now is poised on the same choice that hope gives all of us, between shadows of the past, and the bright, blank page of any new day.

There is another reality, beyond what we see with our eyes.

Every guru you meet and every teacher, every prophet and every philosopher, should answer these two questions for you: What is an objective, universally acceptable definition of good and evil? And, What is the relationship between consciousness and matter? If he cannot answer these two questions, as I have done, you know that he has not passed the test.

Everything you ever sense, in touch or taste or sight or even thought, has an effect on you that's greater than zero.

You can be happy and afraid and angry in your dreams, but you have to be wide awake to be sad, don't you think?