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Consciousness Quotes
"Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable."
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"It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living."
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"Spirituality, sexuality and curiosity are the three pillars of Modern Human Consciousness."
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"Physiology seeks to derive the processes in our own nervous system from general physical forces, without considering whether these processes are or are not accompanied by processes of consciousness."
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"My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious."
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"There is no coming to consciousness without pain."
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"Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh."
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"Whenever I heard the song of a bird and the answering call of its mate, I could visualize the notes in scale, all built up within my consciousness as a natural symphony."
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"And if I can take part in it by transforming my own consciousness, then someone else's, I'm happy to do it."
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"Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is."
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"The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness."
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"His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours."
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"Thoughts. Your imagination. The voices inside your head. They're all the same thing and spirit is what fuels it."
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"The world is real. Consciousness is the illusion."
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"The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity."
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"I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness."
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"When I write, I enter a transpersonal state of consciousness, a lightheaded realm of mental imagination, a cognitive place where I can lithely finger the coherent and the absurd. I seek to cross over an intricate boarder where the conscious and unconscious minds meet, traversing the aperture where the real and the imaginary intermingle. I aspire to establish a detached vantage point where I can survey the entire human condition."
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"We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us."
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"The complex organic device that creates and thereafter drives consciousness, is the human brain. Consciousness evolved hand in hand with the evolution of the human brain throughout a time span of six million years."
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"My experience of that liberation, what Buddha had called Nirvana, set me off in the path of scientific investigation of that Oneness, the thing people call, meeting with God. And that meeting triggered an unquenchable thirst in me to develop a proper scientific method to understand and further explore that apparently bizarre domain of Universal Consciousness."
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"Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness."
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"An unconscious consciousness is no more a contradiction in terms than an unseen case of seeing."
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"Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind."
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"A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view."
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"Part of the lesbian consciousness is an absolute recognition of the erotic within our lives and, taking that a step further, dealing with the erotic not only in sexual terms."
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"The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness."
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"Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed."
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"Nothing exists except through human consciousness."
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"Neuron is to Consciousness, what D.N.A. is to Life. Thus, Biology of Mind is to the twenty-first century, what Biology of Life was to the twentieth century."
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"There are other beings live in between interval rhythms of our consciousness."
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"When you are saying "I", it is actually the billions of neurons in your brain collectively expressing their functional existence."
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"I (God) am only a part of your own human consciousness, but a really bizarre part."
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"The new formula in physics describes humans as paradoxical beings who have two complementary aspects: They can show properties of Newtonian objects and also infinite fields of consciousness."
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"Changing mass consciousness is an individual responsibility."
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"This sunlight linked me through the ages to that past consciousness."
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"A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers."
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"I was born with a serious spiritual consciousness and for many years studied different paths."
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"Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious."
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"We should be exploring consciousness at the neural level and higher, where the arrow of causal analysis points up toward such principles as emergence and self-organization."
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"When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness."
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"Consciousness is the glory of creation."
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"Something similar is still true of the courses followed by manifold intuitions which together make up the unity of one continuous consciousness of one and the same object."
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"Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences."
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"If one is unfamiliar with the infinite power of the subconscious mind, then one is absolutely far from living up to one's true potential in life."
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"Within psychology and neuroscience, some new and rigorous experimental paradigms for studying consciousness have helped it begin to overcome the stigma that has been attached to the topic for most of this century."
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"They are of the dream time. I don't understand it, I can't say it in words. Everything dreams. The play of form, of being, is the dreaming of substance. Rocks have their dreams, and the earth changes. . . .But when the mind becomes conscious, when the rate of evolution speeds up, then you have to be careful. Careful of the world. You must learn the way. You must learn the skills, the art, the limits. A conscious mind must be part of the whole, intentionally and carefully--as the rock is part of the whole unconsciously. Do you see? Does it mean anything to you?"
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"For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human form of consciousness I simply cannot tell."
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"There's no consciousness without senses and memories."
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