Philosophy of Mind Quotes · Page 69

The consciousness in you and the consciousness in me, apparently two, really one, seek unity and that is love.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

I couldn't see myself not chasing my dreams, putting action to my thoughts making them my reality

— Anonymous

Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world.

— Abraham Lincoln

Feelings are self-justifying, with a set of perceptions and "proofs" all their own.

— Daniel Goleman

“Bodily haste and exertion usually leave our thoughts very much at the mercy of our feelings and imagination.”

— George Eliot

Human beings are not the virus their level of consciousness is the virus.

— Jeremy Limn

The divine therapy helps us integrate our animal nature with the new possibilities of rational consciousness.

— Thomas Keating

Thought is a strenuous art - few practice it, and then only at rare times.

— David Ben-Gurion

The world is a construct of our sensations, perceptions, memories. It is convenient to regard it as existing objectively on its own.…

— Erwin Schrodinger

“You can only manage your thoughts, not your emotions. What are the emotions you're experiencing right now? What are the associated thoughts?…

— Assegid Habtewold

The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and...each step forward has been a most painful and…

— Carl Jung

“Our response to the external conditions of our lives can be greatly altered by our perceptions of those conditions.”

— Kitt Weagant

Believe and Achieve Use the mind as the magnet it was designed to be. Focus on wanted events. Remove the repetitive negative…

— Ritu Ghatourey

An infinity of frequencies collects in the info-sphere. We are continually downloading and uploading this ethereal data, evolving our consciousness.

— Ruben Papian

“Those early characterizations (Our parents give us) can become the shimmering self-image we embrace or the limited, stifling perception we rail against…

— Kelly Corrigan

We have to look and ensure that we're paying attention to what we're doing, so that we don't reflexively institute processes and…

— Sonia Sotomayor

“In the days after my heart attack & before I began to write again, all I could think about was dying. I'd…

— Nicole Krauss

Since the universe must contain millions of appropriate planets, consciousness in some form - but not with the paired eyes and limbs,…

— Stephen Jay Gould

In New Mexico, he always awoke a young man, not until he arose and began to shave did he realize that he…

— Willa Cather

“The most fundamental exercise is self-observation, which is the catalyst for inner change, it will give self-knowledge and a clear mind and…

— Belsebuub

“There is a level of consciousness between sleeping and fully wakening when the worries of the day have not settled upon us;…

— John Wyatt

“[...] these questions gave way, in the course of time, to a different preoccupation, namely, a slow and growing awareness of familiarity…

— Jonathan Coe

Once you were just insentient cells, no more aware of anything than your liver is now. Today you are brimming with consciousness.…

— Colin McGinn

“The hamster friend said being able to do front rolls didn't make the hamster as good as Bruce Lee, which was not…

— Tao Lin

I've got my indignation but I'm pure in all my thoughts.

— Eddie Vedder

“You can see your thoughts and emotions arise & create space for them even if they are uncomfortable.”

— Sharon Salzberg

There are no evil thoughts except one; the refusal to think.

— Ayn Rand

Some thoughts are like old piece of belongings that need to be disposed to move on

— Richmond Akhigbe

Enlightenment is like everyday consciousness but two inches above the ground.

— D.T. Suzuki

The essence of thought, as the essence of life, is growth.

— Oscar Wilde

“We have not the remotest realistic inkling of a consciousness which is not self-consciousness.”

— Wilhelm Von Humboldt

Molecules dissolve and pass away, but consciousness survives the death of the matter on which it rides.

— Deepak Chopra

The conscious ego cannot tell the unconscious what to do?

— Milton H. Erickson

Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.

— Alexis Carrel

“Every breakthrough begins with breaking the thought patterns that hold you back.”

— Alex Rivera

Logic is a wonderful thing but doesn't always beat actual thought.

— Terry Pratchett

“... the doors of perception are hanging crazily off their hinges these days.”

— Kate Atkinson

Art always helps religion; it became an inseparable phenomenon when human beings gained consciousness.

— Hiroshi Sugimoto

When you get up in the morning, let your first thought be directed towards God.

— Mata Amritanandamayi

I can't sleep. Too many thoughts running through my useless head.

— Simone Elkeles