Brain Quote by Antonio Damasio

“What can we get on with while our consciousness rests? A researcher into the mind, a psychonomer , a thought-mapper , might claim this…

— China Mieville

When you have abandoned all past and future, it is as if you have come alive. You are here, mindful...the nature of all types…

— Ajahn Brahm

We cease to exist every time we go to sleep. That break in awareness includes self-awareness. If you aren't there, you won't know what…

— Rock Cowles

“Why, when we regain consciousness, is it not an identity other than the one we had previously that is embodied in us? It is…

— Marcel Proust

You can experience consciousness now by experiencing the fact that you exist.

— Barry Long

At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Thoughts come and go like leaves in the wind, but the core of consciousness is forever.

— Deepak Chopra

Without the ability to think about yourself, to reflect on your life, there’s really no awareness, no consciousness. Consciousness doesn’t come automatically; it comes…

— Maxine Greene

You think, you become that thought. And consciousness, or the state of pure awareness, is lost.

— Barry Long

“Every mental process, or every mental action, that takes place in our wide-awake consciousness will, if it has depth of feeling or intensity, enter…

— Christian D. Larson

When you awaken spiritually, in fact, you can use thought much more effectively than before, but you realize there is a depth to your…

— Eckhart Tolle

The Milky Way swooped diagonally across the heavens, reminding me of my utter insignificance, and at the same time my complete interconnection with everything.…

— Roz Savage