“Outside he hurried again, for he had several blocks to walk and the beer turned out to be no more than cool.… — Douglas Woolf Copy Share Image
The idea is that of the earth not only becoming covered with myriad grains of thought, but becoming enclosed in a single… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
“Before such people can act together, a kind of telepathic feeling has to flow through them and ripen to the point when… — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
“Conscious access is also the gateway to more complex forms of conscious experience. In everyday language, we often conflate our Consciousness with… — Stanislas Dehaene Copy Share Image
“I remember a cartoon depicting a chimney sweep falling from the roof of a tall building and noticing on the way that… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The fact that man produces a concept "I" besides the totality of his mental and emotional experiences or perceptions does not prove… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Since the moment of self-consciousness comes to a permanent end - and a new journey begins- is such a decisive stroke or… — Bernadette Roberts Copy Share Image
“He would think of it later, he thought; one moves step by step and one must keep moving. For the moment, with… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I would say that in my scientific and philosophical work, my main concern has been with understanding the nature of reality in… — David Copy Share Image
“I was near-delirious. Gazing up at the pillared skyline, I knew that I was surveying a tremendous work of man. Buying myself… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
In its entirety, probably, it follows us at every instant; all that we have felt, thought and willed from our earliest infancy… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
“A certain amount of reverie is good, like a narcotic in discreet doses. It soothes the fever, occasionally high, of the brain… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“This may be set as a criterion to any-yes, 'to all: When such an experiment, such a trial, draws or tires, or… — Edgar Cayce Copy Share Image
Perhaps the perception of reality itself can fundamentally be explained and construed as a known proven knowledge that subsequently affects functionality, consequences,… — Johnny Luckett Copy Share Image
If minds are wholly dependent on brains and brains on biochemistry, and biochemistry (in the long run) on the meaningless flux of… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Unless we possess high spiritual qualifications, there is no doubt that the events life throws upon us will give rise to frustration,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I do not believe that the deeper problems of living can ever be answered by the process of thought. I believe that… — Hamilton Wright Mabie Copy Share Image
“The man in this stage of consciousness thinks of his "I" as a mental thing, having a lower companion, the body. He… — Yogi Ramacharaka Copy Share Image
“Since position and contact play so big a part in determining what can be seen, heard, read, and experienced, as well as… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“All that I've done, thought or been is a series of submissions, either to a false self that I assumed belonged to… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
The writer, like a swimmer caught by an undertow, is borne in an unexpected direction. He is carried to a subject which… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
You want to know yourself. For this keep steadily in the focus of consciousness, the only clue you have: your certainty of… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
The American psychologist Julian Jaynes, in a controversial study on the origin of consciousness, argued that the bicameral mind - in which… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
In Savasana or in meditation, the light of the eyes is drawn towards the lotus of the heart, so that the seat… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
“Somebody who reads only newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“The mechanisms that form our perceptions operate almost entirely below the level of conscious awareness; ironically, we cannot sense how we sense.… — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
“Imagine you’re a mayfly born on a river in Colorado. You’re around for a day. You mate and you die. Do you… — Kathryn Miles Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the line between perceiving and hallucinating is not as crisp as we like to think. In a sense, when we look… — V.S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
“You cannot see That which is the Seer of seeing; you cannot hear That which is the Hearer of hearing; you cannot… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The thought of just how inadequate the body's natural defenses --skull, bone, brain-- were in the face of the advanced physics-- lead,… — Adam Sternbergh Copy Share Image
When you have emptied all content - thoughts, desires, memories, projections, hopes - when all is gone, for the first time you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
We have communion with Christ in His thoughts, views, and purposes; for His thoughts are our thoughts according to our capacity and… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Make yourselves nests of pleasant thoughts. None of us knows what fairy palaces we may build of beautiful thought-proof against all adversity.… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“Contemplation, as it has come to be understood in the Christian tradition, is a return to the paradisiacal state of union with… — William Shannon Copy Share Image
“If I could turn my thoughts into spoken words and share them with someone, they’d become real and mean something. Now, they… — Holly Michael Copy Share Image
“One of the most difficult things to remember is to remember to remember. We forget that we live in a body with… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
Some people are called upon to do great things externally in this world by creating some new structure that reflects their awakening… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I try never to hear what another person thinks of me. I enjoy life a lot more when I spend as little… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Evelyn Waugh was in error when he said that in New York there was a neurosis in the air which the inhabitants… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“As in other exercises my father taught me, the way to begin is to sit up straight, breathe normally, and gradually allow… — Yongey Mingyur Copy Share Image
