Quotes About Consciousness

I try to be well informed. I don't know how well I do all the time, but I try nonetheless.

By putting the first-person point of view in a naturalistic perspective, I believe that we may genuinely come to understand it for the first time.

There may be a jump on electronic LSD with virtual reality, and the problem just with saying LSD, enough time has gone by that there is no distinction between psychedelics and other drugs.

It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.

Don't expect to be able to upload your cat's brain into your Roomba any time soon.

The time has come for us to envision ourselves as spiritual beings of light and love.

I think I'm just really sensitive to the world. I really feel like I spend a lot of time "turned off".

Through the lack of attaching myself to words, my thoughts remain nebulous most of the time. They sketch vague, pleasant shapes and then are swallowed up; I forget them almost immediately.

The Buddhists say there are 121 states of consciousness. Of these, only three involve misery or suffering. Most of us spend our time moving back and forth between these three.

Insight is not a matter of memory, of knowledge and time, which are all thought.

Only when your hearts are empty of the things of the mind, is there love. Then you will know what it is to love without separation, without distance, without time, without fear.

Don't we introduce time as a means of becoming more evolved? The brain has evolved but is there evolution inwardly? Can the brain dominated by time not be subservient to it?

There is nothing outside of us that is not at the same time in us, and as the external world has its colors the eye, too, has colors.

The unfolding code of what you really are occurs every time you go to sleep.

The world is chiefly a mental fact. From mind it receives the forms of time and space, the principle of casuality[sic], color, warmth, and beauty. Were there no mind, there would be no world.

To ask at what time a man has first any ideas is to ask when he begins to perceive; having ideas and perception being the same thing.

I was very conscious of race as I was writing. I was lucky to have spent real time in Portuguese Africa, but I am white and my main characters are white, outsiders at sea in the "Dark Continent."

With the passage of time, as well as the social evolution and genetic exchange, we ended up putting our conscience in the color of our blood and the salt of our tears.

We ought at all times to be very careful that high-mindedness shall never have place in our hearts.

I saw Krishnamurti speak one time. And I thought, I'm not going to live here.

A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe", a part limited in time and space.

Time is an illusion of life the life of the past and the future clouds men from the true life of the present.

For us physicists believe the separation between past, present, and future is only an illusion, although a convincing one.

Well, a man's mind can't stay in time the way his body does.