Quotes about Consciousness

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Take stock of your thoughts and behavior. Each night ask yourself, when were you negative when you could have been positive? When did you withhold love when you might have given it? When did you play a neurotic game instead of behaving in a powerful way? Use this process to self-correct.

The movement of search can only be from the known to the known, and all that the mind can do is to be aware that this movement will never uncover the unknown. Any movement on the part of the known is still within the field of the known.

There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before.

If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.

The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.

The power of our thoughts may never be measured or appreciated, but it became obvious to me as a young boy that there was value and power in being aware of my thoughts and how I expressed myself.

To think of myself as a body, to be conscious of myself as a body, is to be conscious of other people's consciousness.

Bütün uyuyanlar? uyand?rmaya bir tek uyan?k yeter.

You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.