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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
To be free is to be capable of thinking one's own thoughts - not the thoughts merely of the body, or of… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
Since consciousness is the basis of all reality, any shift in consciousness changes every aspect of our reality. Reality is created by… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
We can't control what thoughts and emotions arise within us, nor can we control the universal truth that everything changes. But we… — Sharon Salzberg 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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
When you have emptied all content - thoughts, desires, memories, projections, hopes - when all is gone, for the first time you… — Rajneesh 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
Now think about the Universal Law. It reflects to you exactly and precisely what you put out. If your thought-forms say, "I… — Stuart Wilde Copy Share Image
Thoughts are ephemeral, they evaporate in the moment they occur, unless they are given action and material form. Wishes and intentions, the… — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
The whole idea of being mesmerized and not in control of your own actions is fascinating and a little spooky. I remember… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
When you listen to the voice in your head, listen to it impartially. That is to say, do not judge. You'll soon… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The mystical perception (which is only "mystical" if reality is limited to what can be measured by the intellect and senses) is… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
“An oracle must cross the moat of logic and reach the inner poet that resides, perhaps repressed but nonetheless alive, within all… — Carol K. Anthony Copy Share Image
“I admire the person who can write it right off. Mencken once said that a person who thinks clearly can write well.… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
“In the social production which men carry on they enter into definite relations that are indispensable and independent of their will; these… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“When the brain becomes too tired, the mind stops decrypting the perceptions in our mental world and surrenders willingly to the unguarded… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“I am an eye. A mechanical eye. I, the machine, show you a world the way only I can see it. I… — Dziga Vertov Copy Share Image
You can call it tathata, suchness. 'Suchness' is a Buddhist way of expressing that there is something in you which always remains… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
