Quotes About Consciousness

Falling asleep. Waking up.

the present book's inquiry into the elements of an adequate philosophy of consciousness leads to the conclusion that consciousness can be understood as the experience of performing structured combinations of intentional operations that relate the elements of experience to one another in intelligible patterns and that also relate the subjective or "tacit" dimension of consciousness to an objective dimension or pole.

De los prodigios del bosque aquél era sin duda el mejor: la sensibilización de todos los sentidos aletargados en la ciudad, la consciencia de todas las partes de su cuerpo, aun las más íntimas o pequeñas.

There are some words that seem to well up from inside me without reason. I will be walking along an empty hallway, leaning against the wall of an elevator, looking at the ceiling of my apartment when I find myself saying, "sorry." But I am not saying it to anyone else, it is only for the sound of the word, the feel of it.

Being a guest in someone else's home and slowly beginning to suspect that you have done something wrong, something of which you were not previously aware, is how it feels to have a dawning understanding of what it means to be white in this world.

Sometimes I long to forget… It is painful to be conscious of two worlds.

If we rush ceaselessly through disconnected activities without checking in on our moods or motives, we can lose track of ourselves; in a sense, we lose the ability to experience our experiences. A

Negative and positive are not two aspects of energy and consciousness: they are one and the same. Whatever particles of energy and consciousness in your self have turned negative must be reconverted into their original positive way of being. This cannot be accomplished without fully taking responsibility for the negativity in you.

Strange how deeply they reside and how one memory pulls out the next like links in a chain, until at times you find that even the subtlest thoughts you had decades ago are sill hidden somewhere inside of you.

The beauty lies in the mind. If the world is beautiful and the laws of the universe sublime...Must there not be somewhere something beautiful that still remains behind, lingering, waiting to be found?

Mind emerges from matter and life at an empirical level, but at a transcendental level every form or structure is necessarily also a form or structure disclosed by consciousness. With this reversal one passes from the natural attitude of the scientist to the transcendental phenomenological attitude (which, according to phenomenology, is the properly philosophical attitude).

The central idea of this book is that the self is a process, not a thing or an entity. The self isn't something outside experience, hidden either in the brain or in some immaterial realm.

The waking world isn't outside and separate from our mind. It's brought forth and enacted through our imaginative perception of it.

Sometimes, I shot for four films but none of them released because of various reasons. So, I started becoming conscious about the kind of films I do.

I'm not religious, but I do pray. It's 60 seconds of meditation, visualizing myself, looking at myself, and being conscious of my own consciousness. That will align me for the rest of the day.

I like to keep an open mind, but I do think there is some form of energy that exists separate to our flesh and blood. I do think that there's some kind of an energy that leaves the body when it dies, but I certainly don't have religious beliefs particularly.

I've always had this fascination with the brain. I'm not really much of a religious person, but like anybody, you are at least fascinated by what some call a soul - what I would call the brain - and who we are and how we work.

I've definitely become more aware and conscious of what directors I'm working with because it's so important. The director is really more than half the battle of the film. You really rely on that. That's become really, really important to me, for sure.

The mind is a monkey, hopping around from thought to thought, image to image. Rarely do more than a few seconds go by in which the mind can remain single-pointed, empty.

As instruments for knowing the objects, the sense organs are outside, and so they are called outer senses; and the mind is called the inner sense because it is inside. But the distinction between inner and outer is only with reference to the body; in truth, there is neither inner nor outer. The mind's nature is to remain pure like ether.

People forget who they are; they always remain with an identity which is not the real self. It is just a projected self which does not exist, but they identify with this projected self appearance.

It is clear that every immediate object of our senses both exists and is real in the primary meaning of these terms so long as we remain aware of the object.

Freedom only remains healthy if we think about the implications of what we do on a day-to-day basis.

Everybody agrees that the brain is a remarkable machine. It's capable of generating an enormous number of phenomena, some of them very obvious and some of them less obvious. But I think that in the end there are going to be some very basic explanations for many things: emotions, awareness, consciousness, attention, perception, recognition.