consciousness Quotes

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Confine yourself to the present.

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.

I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.

If the cosmos isn't finite, then far, far away, floating duplicates of your brain - with all its experiences, thoughts, and emotions - are occasionally (and temporarily) thrown together by the random combining of atoms. Such 'Boltzmann brains,' as they're called, are a disturbing consequence of an unlimited universe.

You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.