Consciousness Quote by Terry Eagleton

To become aware of the subtlety of nature you need to be alert. The moment you become alert you become still... thinking subsides. That…

— Eckhart Tolle

Although an increasing number of humans are undergoing a process of awakening, identification with thinking is still the prevalent state of consciousness. Thinking is…

— Eckhart Tolle

“Fredkin was quoted by Robert Wright in the 1980s as saying, There are three great philosophical questions. What is life? What is consciousness and…

— Ray Kurzweil

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

When you listen to a thought, you are aware not only of the thought but also of yourself as the witness of the thought.…

— Eckhart Tolle

“Every time we become aware of a thought, as opposed to being lost in a thought, we experience that opening of the mind.”

— Joseph Goldstein

I meditate at airports because those are the places where I’m extremely tense, and I often meditate while I’m walking down the street. I…

— Pankaj Mishra

“To be sensitively aware of thought, of feeling, of the world about you, of your office and of nature, is to explode from moment…

— J. Krishnamurti

“ ... a Second Generation of machine intelligences was attempted, designed with their instructions for how to think unalterably imprinted into their main process…

— John C. Wright

Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong, but just to watch…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me; For now hath time made me his numbering clock: My thoughts are minutes; and with…

— William Shakespeare

Consciousness does matter. Matter is secondary. Consciousness is primary. Brain does not do consciousness, consciousness does the brain.

— Amit Goswami

I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that…

— Max Planck

It's not about the body; you are consciousness. That's what you are. Your consciousness is already out of your body. You don't need to…

— Thomas Campbell

“There are several ways for a body to be a body, and several ways for consciousness to be consciousness.”

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty