Quotes about Consciousness

We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society.

All our own present experiences are primordial. What could be more primordial than experience itself?

All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew.

Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.

In the fable, the garden is a symbol for the mind.

The devil ought not to be in our line of vision but in our shadow.

So she sat on with closed eyes, and half believed herself in Wonderland, though she knew she had but to open them again, and all would change to dull reality.

And if he left off dreaming about you, where do you suppose you'd be?

You might just as well say," added the Dormouse, who seemed to be talking in its sleep, "that 'I breathe when I sleep' is the same thing as 'I sleep when I breathe'!

I ca'n't remember things before they happen.' 'It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,' the Queen remarked.

You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.