Quotes About Consciousness

We experience who we really are, and what it is we are meant to do, in any moment when we pour our love into the universe.

Our barriers to love are rarely consciously chosen. They are our efforts to protect the places where the heart is bruised.

Every heart has a divine intelligence and natural guidance system. With every prayer, every meditation and every thought of love, we tune in to ours.

When we think with love, we are literally co-creating with God.

Writing a poem ... is a kind of possible love affair between something like the heart (that courageous but also shy factory of emotion) and the learned skills of the conscious mind.

We must love animals in such a powerful way that we should reject to eat them!

If we can find ways to love life and be joyful without being wasteful or destructive--that's what's important.

If you could see yourself before you were born, you would be amazed at your intelligence and glory. Birth is a sleep and a forgetting.

We are better able to resist the negative impact of oppressive messages when we see them coming than when they are invisible to us.

But unless they are walking actively in the opposite direction at a speed faster than the conveyor belt - unless they are actively antiracist - they will find themselves carried along with the others.

Take a moment from time to time to remember that you are alive. I know this sounds a trifle obvious, but it is amazing how little time we take to remark upon this singular and gratifying fact. By the most astounding stroke of luck an infinitesimal portion of all the matter in the universe came together to create you and for the tiniest moment in the great span of eternity you have the incomparable privilege to exist.

All that is really going in your mouth is texture and chemicals. It is your brain that reads these scentless, flavorless molecules and vivifies them for your pleasure. Your brownie is sheet music. It is your brain that makes it a symphony.

Physicists are atoms' way of thinking about atoms.

Well, you blink fourteen thousand times a day—so much that your eyes are shut for twenty-three minutes of every waking day.

We enjoy not only the privilege of existence, but also the singular ability to appreciate it and even, in a multitude of ways, to make it better.

explanations, like dreams, only make sense while they're happening.

A physicist is the atoms' way of thinking about atoms. Anonymous

the brain does a truly extraordinary thing: it continuously forecasts what the world will be like a fifth of a second from now, and that is what it gives us as the present. That means that we never see the world as it is at this very instant, but rather as it will be a fraction of a moment in the future. We spend our whole lives, in other words, living in a world that doesn't quite exist yet.

In short, the remarkable position in which we find ourselves is that we don't actually know what we actually know. In

As with so much else, you experience the world that your brain allows you to experience.

Even in walking across the room you will very slightly alter your own experience of time and space.

To help us deal better with this fractional lag, the brain does a truly extraordinary thing: it continuously forecasts what the world will be like a fifth of a second from now, and that is what it gives us as the present. That means that we never see the world as it is at this very instant, but rather as it will be a fraction of a moment in the future. We spend our whole lives, in other words, living in a world that doesn't quite exist yet.

Nuestro cerebro es nosotros. Todo lo demás son solo tuberías y andamios.

He was taken to St. Lawrence Hospital and died the next day. He never regained consciousness.