Bones Quote by Thomas Ligotti

While a modicum of consciousness may have had survivalist properties during an immemorial chapter of our evolution – so one theory goes – this…

— Thomas Ligotti

What we do not make conscious emerges later as fate.

— Carl Jung

“What we do, as a conscious species, is set markers for ourselves. Once we reach one marker, we advance to the next—as if we…

— Thomas Ligotti

You are so accustomed to think of yourselves as bodies having consciousness that you just cannot imagine consciousness as having bodies. Once you realize…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Consciousness - what we call our identity- is always unstable, always at risk of sabotage from the unacceptable feelings of loss and desire which…

— Rosalind Minsky

Consciousness is an emergent, contingent, and impermanent phenomenon. It has no magical capacity to break free from the field of events out of which…

— Stephen Batchelor

“Consciousness is a mystery that faces the mystery of potential and transforms it into actuality. We do that with every choice we make. Our…

— Jordan B. Peterson

“To be conscious is inevitably to be a hypocrite. We can stomach our own kind, or just enough of them who either prove useful…

— Thomas Ligotti

Conscious evolution begins as we take responsibility for clearing our own obstructions.

— Dan Millman

I worry that we don't have a very good definition of consciousness yet which makes it hard to tackle.

— Edward Boyden

“Raising consciousness involves confronting people with issues and truths that they have not really considered before. Many of these truths are uncomfortable and disturbing,…

— Laurence Overmire

Consciousness creates reality.

— Bernard Haisch