(memory is) A strange echo, which stores its replicas according to some other acoustic than consciousness or expectation. — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
I think of my body as a side effect of my mind. Like a thought I had once that manifested itself-- Oops!… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
“Perhaps consciousness arises when the brain's simulation of the world becomes so complex that it must include a model of itself.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The aim of Zen training is to attain the state of consciousness which occurs when the individual ego is emptied of itself… — Anne Bancroft Copy Share Image
“What the Buddha himself considers to be truly wondrous are not the miracles accompanying his conception and birth, but his mindfulness and… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
“Self-perception is only partial perception, and while the passing of time dims memories, it can also unfold significance.” — Allison Jr., Dale C Copy Share Image
Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
“The earth is literally a mirror of thoughts. Objects themselves are embodied thoughts. Death is the dark backing that a mirror needs… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Beyond the mind, at the deepest level of consciousnesss, resides the spirit. This is the part of us that is eternal, unchanging,… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
The ecological crisis we face is so obvious that it becomes easy...to join the dots and see that everything is interconnected. This… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
“Everything we see and feel is "an effect of God's power," said Berkeley. For God is "intimately present in our consciousness, causing… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Words do not express thoughts very well; every thing immediately becomes a little different, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“deliberately withdrawing your attention from the objective world and of focusing it subjectively. In other words, concentrate on those thoughts or moods… — Neville Copy Share Image
Organismic awareness is awareness of the Present only - you can't taste the past, smell the past, see the past, touch the… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
I feel like I'm dropping such a long way down again." "I seem to be dropping into a cold dark wet place,… — John Marsden Copy Share Image
Nearly half a century has passed since Watson proclaimed his manifesto. Today, apart from a few minor reservations, the vast majority of… — Cyril Burt Copy Share Image
Making a U-turn from our thoughts to our feelings re-connects us to our own inner experience and creates the grounds for connecting… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference, are exercised only in making a choice. He… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Language ist not just a neutral vessel for conveying thoughts but is an invisible mold that actually shapes the way people think… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Dоn’t allow negative thоughtѕ tо сrоwd уоur mind, rесоgnizе thе fееling, and ѕhift уоur thoughts. Don’t gеt аngrу at the rаin, grаb… — Malachi Thompson III Copy Share Image
“In altered states of consciousness, the nervous system itself becomes a ‘sixth sense’ that produces a variety of images including entoptic phenomena.” — James David Lewis-Williams Copy Share Image
Claim the possibility of a miraculous shift toward global transformation, allow the thought to move through you like a wave of energy,… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
There are wavelengths that people cannot see, there are sounds that people cannot hear, and maybe computers have thoughts that people cannot… — Richard Hamming Copy Share Image
Never under estimate the Power of the Mind. Persist in creating new thoughts to prevent falling back into negative patterns. It is… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
It is astonishingly beautiful and interesting, how thought is absent when you have an insight. Thought cannot have an insight. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“I see the awakening of consciousness as a series of spaced flashes, with the intervals between them gradually diminishing until bright blocks… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Life is meant to realize oneself as a divine being in the higher consciousness (God) and be immortal and blissful forever.” — Shiva Negi Copy Share Image
Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Haven't we all, as time continues, found that we must be kind to ourselves and listen to our thoughts, because fewer and… — Lan Samantha Chang Copy Share Image
Single-minded devotion engenders deep thought, which expresses itself in action. The Lord's Light descends on the devotee, His power awakens in him… — Anandamayi Ma Copy Share Image
Perception has always interested me. The idea thatbehind every face, there are a thousand faces. Beneath the placidveneer of middle America, there… — Bryan Singer Copy Share Image
“The difference between people are their thoughts. Always use your thoughts to better your life & brighten our world!” — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
Wrong thoughts are inside us just because we identify ourselves with these thoughts. If we identify with something else, immediately they have… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
my brain had begun to endure its familiar siege: panic and dislocation, and a sense that my thought processes were being engulfed… — William Styron Copy Share Image
Thought that can merge wholly into feeling, feeling that can merge wholly into thought - these are the artist's highest joy. — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Use the practice of mind and body; in order to make those moves perfectly, you have to pull your mind out of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“...the thoughts we think in childhood, Captain, are the fathers of the thoughts we think when we are grown up.” — Henry de Vere Stacpoole Copy Share Image
“revelation always supposes that man is able to receive impressions or thoughts or inclinations from another than this phenomenal world, and in… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“Words are thoughts encapsulated in sound vibrations. It’s not the vibration or frequency that gives a word complete power but the meaning… — Raz Mihal Copy Share Image
“Insights, after all, come from the overlap between seemingly unrelated thoughts. They emerge when concepts are transposed, when the rules of one… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image