Consciousness Quote by William James

Consciousness is the screen. The images on the screen are your perceptions, the illusion that life is solid, that there is a material universe.

— Frederick Lenz

Humans are potentially capable of living in a state of consciousness compared to which normal wakefulness is like sleeping or dreaming.

— Eckhart Tolle

All consciousness is consciousness of something

— Edmund Husserl

Nobody knows what either sleep or waking consciousness is, even though these two have long been seen as the two sides of being: part…

— Siri Hustvedt

What is consciousness? Our brain simulates reality. So, our everyday experiences are a form of dreaming, which is to say, they are mental models,…

— Stephen LaBerge

Some other people think that awakened consciousness is really about fullness or presence, being completely present for every moment, but these experiences are only…

— Jack Kornfield

“What counts as genuine consciousness, I will argue, is conscious access-the simple fact that usually, whenever we are awake, whatever we decide to focus…

— Stanislas Dehaene

... consciousness is an ever-unfolding, deepening, and expanding process with no end point. We are infinite and complex beings, and our human journey involves…

— Shakti Gawain

Consciousness means being present to everything in life as it unfolds.

— Anonymous

Although the content of consciousness depends in large measure on neuronal activity, awareness itself does not.To me, it seems more and more reasonable to…

— Wilder Penfield

Consciousness is not a bunch of thoughts or a certain level of understanding. Consciousness is a dimension that is beyond our physicality.

— Jaggi Vasudev

Every aspect of our lives plays out in two versions: one conscious, which we are constantly aware of, and the other unconscious, which remains…

— Leonard Mlodinow