Quotes About Consciousness

But in all that suffering, the most painful suffering of all was the consciousness that it was banal, had all been discovered a long time ago, and was known to all the generations past, all just a repeated series, stamped out by our genes, That the universe was filled to its edges groans as alike as two notes, that those particular groans formed one great groan similar to the shrill parliament of the sparrows and that groan became an interstellar roar, the inaudible groan of the aging cosmos.

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If he is weak enough to grow smaller to fit himself to his covering, then it becomes a process of gradual suicide by shrinkage of the soul.

Time does not exist as some external, objective container, but actually time is exactly our current dynamic activity and awareness.

Think with your whole body.

I am not devaluing thoughts. Just do not mix up what we think with what actually is.

Regardless of how long Daitsu Chisho Buddha sits, regardless of how long you sit, the Buddha dharma never appears because it is already here! Reveal it! Do not cover it up!

When we let ourselves see only what we expect to see," Genji said, "we view the contents of our own minds and miss what is truly before us.

When we let ourselves see only what we expect to see," Genji said, "we view the contents of our own minds and miss what is truly before us.

One may explain water, but the mouth will not become wet. One may expound fully on the nature of fire, but the mouth will not become hot.

It is the very mind itself That leads the mind astray; Of the mind, Do not be mindless.

Jei kas pastatyt? veidrod?, tai veidrodžio atspindžiai b?t? matomi. Nors veidrodis atspindi ir apie tai negalvodamas, jo atspindžiai vis tiek yra preciziškai tiksl?s. Savo mintis sud?damas lyg veidrod?, kovos men? žmogus taip pat nem?stys apie sprendimus, ta?iau priklausomai nuo jo min?i? veidrodžio ryškumo, sprendimas tarp teisingo ir neteisingo bus priimtas be jokios minties.

Choice is creation. To choose is to create. Through my choices I create my reality. At every moment in my life I have a choice. Moments add up to a lifetime; choices add up to a life. What kind of life do I want for myself? What choices will create this kind of life?

The world that we can perceive is a mere slice of a multidimensional world beyond our senses and even beyond our mathematics.

These descriptions allude to time/space dissolution, synesthesia (crossover of types of sensory perception) and altered states of consciousness.

Even when throwing in the river, measure what you throw

The fact is, we humans don't live directly in the physical universe. We live in a model of the world we have created collectively through language and which we maintain communally. That model was already in existence when we were born; we merely made our way into it as we matured. Becoming an adult meant gaining the ability to imagine the same world as everyone else.

Eating a creature shouldn't be a light thing.

Now that's a concept that's always fascinated me: the real world. Only a very specific subset of people use the term, have you noticed? To me, it seems self-evident that everyone lives in the real world—we all breathe real oxygen, eat real food, the earth under our feet feels equally solid to all of us.

All that is implicit in her, curled unimagined inside her bones; but so are hundreds of other latent lives, unchosen and easily vanished as whisks of light.

Once a man began thinking with his body, intelligent decisions came few and far between.

You were one person alive and your brain was encased in a skull. There were other people out there. It took effort to be connected.

I felt confused, to some degree, by everything—but in a delayed manner, in that I seemed to be repeatedly realizing that I felt confused, instead of feeling directly confused

This quality of seeing things freshly, as though for the first time, lies at the heart of mindfulness.