Quotes about Consciousness

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.

What am I but a little flesh, a little breath, and the thinking part that rules the whole?

A human being has close kinship with the whole human race -- not a bond of blood or seed, but a community of mind. And you have forgotten this too, that every man's mind is a god and has flowed from that source; that nothing is our own property, but even our child, our body, our very soul have come from that source; that all is as thinking makes it so; that each of us lives only the present moment, and the present moment is all we lose.

It stares you in the face. No role is so well suited to philosophy as the one you happen to be in right now.