Quotes about Consciousness

We don't know much about our current selves, do we?

Now that his physical voice was silent, the inner voice of reason, and other voices too, made themselves heard.

Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.

Everyone knows what attention is. It is taking possession of the mind, in clear and vivid form, of one out of what seems several simultaneously possible objects or trains of thought. Focalization, concentration of consciousness are of its essence. It implies a withdrawal from some things in order to deal effectively with others.

Psychology is the science of mental life

Whatever is beyond this narrow rational consciousness we mistake for our only consciousness.

Our normal waking consciousness . . . is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the flimsiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different. We may go through life without suspecting their existence; but apply the requisite stimulus and at a touch they are all there in all their completeness . . . No account of the universe in its totality can be final which leaves these other forms of consciousness quite disregarded.

Knowledge about a thing is not the thing itself.

The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work.

Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying.

Oh, one world at a time!

What are the earth and all its interests beside the deep surmise which pierces and scatters them?