“It is only at the reflective level that consciousness and the highest levels of feeling, emotions, and cognition reside. It is only… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
“The illusion is irresistible. Behind every face there is a self. We see the signal of consciousness in a gleaming eye and… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
When you let go of the belief that you should or need to know who you are, what happens to confusion? Suddenly… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If you think peaceful thoughts, you'll feel peaceful emotions, and that's what you'll bring to every life situation. If you're attached to… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
“The Conscious Space Human consciousness is not very big. The conscious space that we use to process information about ourselves and others… — John G. Shobris Copy Share Image
“It's precisely their diseases that people pride themselves on, and I do-more perhaps than anybody else. Let's not argue; my objection was… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
The human mind delights in finding pattern—so much so that we often mistake coincidence or forced analogy for profound meaning. No other… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Although our moral conscience is a part of our consciousness, we do not feel ourselves on an equality with it. In this… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
Language changes only those aspects of our consciousness which are based on information, but not the feelings themselves. The words are as… — Rodolfo Llinas Copy Share Image
“…[T]he whole thing is really a dazzling illusion empty of all perception, an astonishing farce of misperception. And yet what are we… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Habits are powerful, but delicate. They can emerge outside our consciousness, or can be deliberately designed. They often occur without our permission,… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
Il y a deux sortes d'esprits, l'un ge ome trique, et l'autre que l'on peut appeler de finesse. Le premier a des… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“most of us are rarely inside the present moment. We spend a disproportionate amount of time plotting the future or revisiting past… — Martin Lindstrom Copy Share Image
“Forgetfulness is not just a vis inertiae, as superficial people believe, but is rather an active ability to suppress, positive in the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It's a myth that crazy people don't know they're crazy. Many of us are surely as capable of epiphany and introspection as… — Caitlín R. Kiernan Copy Share Image
“You are pure Spirit. Therefore to know: I am only this, and in each moment, regardless of what I believe I see,… — Shanti Christo Foundation Copy Share Image
“Thought is the brain's three milliards Of cells from the inside out. Billions of games of billiards Marked up as Faith and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
All civilization in a sense exists only in the mind. Gunpowder, textile arts, machinery, laws, telephones are not themselves transmitted from man… — Alfred L. Kroeber Copy Share Image
“I remember, for instance, the first time I went to the great palace of Versailles outside Paris and how, as I wandered… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
To know another human being in their essence, you don’t really need to know anything about them - their past, their history,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you cease to fear your solitude, a new creativity awakens in you. Your forgotten or neglected wealth begins to reveal itself.… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
Wherefore a monk's whole attention should thus be fixed on one point, and the rise and circle of all his thoughts be… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
Sincere thought, real free thought, ready, in the name of superhuman authority or of humble common sense, to question the basis of… — Savitri Devi Copy Share Image
We think there is a knowledge or practice or surrender is needed that will close an imagined or felt gap, and allow… — Mooji Copy Share Image
“To make biological survival possible, Mind at Large has to be funnelled through the reducing valve of the brain and nervous system.… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Today, something is happening to the whole structure of human consciousness. A fresh kind of life is starting. Driven by the forces… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Processes of avoiding the world within in order to try to regulate your behavior, or becoming entangled in your thoughts interfering with… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share Image
“The nature of mind is the nature of everything." I wonder if this threefold process the bardos reveal is true not only,… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
If we were magically shrunk and put into someone's brain while she was thinking, we would see all the pumps, pistons, gears… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
“My mother says that reading is thinking,’ Sofia said. ‘Not that we read and then we think, but rather that we think… — Ricardo Piglia Copy Share Image
“The commitment to enlarged thought is morally and politically significant in that it fosters the ‘ability to think without rules’, to cultivate… — Patrick Hayden Copy Share Image
“Mind is the Master power that moulds and makes, And Man is Mind, and evermore he takes The tool of Thought, and,… — James Allen Copy Share Image
Civilization has imposed countless restrictions and conventions on each of us, with the result that the subconscious in the majority of us… — Margaret Millar Copy Share Image
“...and they absorb the world shaped by these, "constructing" their thoughts, feelings, words, actions, identity, and beliefs accordingly. Which means they will… — Sov8840 Copy Share Image
“Their perception, however, may still be triggered by the presence of aesthetic conditioners or topoi, from whose influence virtually nobody is free.… — Edgar Cantero Copy Share Image
No one can help us to achieve the intimate isolation by which we find our secret worlds, so mysterious, rich and full.… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
“Every language is a vast pattern-system, different from others, in which are culturally ordained the forms and categories by which the personality… — Takeo Doi Copy Share Image
The student of mathematics must get rid of all arbitrary thinking and follow purely the demands of thought. In thinking in this… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
“It has always been believed that the woman has a power of perception beyond what is literally seen and heard. Whether it… — Christina Crawford Copy Share Image
Consciousness, when its unburdened by the body, is something thats ecstatic; we use the mind to watch the mind, and thats the… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image