Famous Quotes about consciousness

Eric Micha'el Leventhal famous quote #32

Though we may choose to view them symbolically dreams are actually no more or less symbolic than everyday waking reality. When the images and events dont conform to our view of reality we call them symbols. When they do we call them facts.
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Thomas Metzinger quote #98 from The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self

Yes there is an outside world and yes there is an objective reality but in moving through this world we constantly apply unconscious filter mechanisms and in doing so we unknowingly construct our own individual world which is our reality tunnel.
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Erwin Schrödinger quote #38 from What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches

When in the puppet-show of dreams we hold in hand the strings of quite a number of actors controlling their actions and their speech we are not aware of this being so. Only one of them is myself the dreamer. In him I act and speak immediately while I may be awaiting eagerly and anxiously what another one will reply
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Alain Yaovi M. Dagba quote #184 from Secrets to Divine Manifestations: Finding Your Life Purpose Through the Rebirth of Your Soul

The path that takes us from here to the fulfillment of our life purpose is who we are. We are the bridge to our destiny. From the Secrets to Divine Manifestations
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Israelmore Ayivor quote #25 from Shaping the dream

Be conscious of the global elements in your dreams. When starting local dream of taking it global sooner.
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Vishwas Chavan quote #36 from Vishwasutras: Universal Principles for Living: Inspired by Real-Life Experiences

Success Dream x Plan x WorkConscious dreams are essential components of your success. When you are backed up by a convincing dream meticulous planning and 100 execution you are bound to be victorius.
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Annie Dillard quote #89 from Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Last year I had a very unusual experience. I was awake with my eyes closed when I had a dream. It was a small dream about time. I was dead I guess in deep black space high up among many white stars. My own consciousness had been disclosed to me and I was happy. Then I saw far below me a long curved band of color. As I came closer I saw that it stretched endlessly in either direction and I understood that I was seeing all the time of the planet where I had lived. It looked like a womans tweed scarf the longer I studied any one spot the more dots of color I saw. There was no end to the deepness and variety of the dots. At length I started to look for my time but although more and more specks of color and deeper and more intricate textures appeared in the fabric I couldnt find my time or any time at all that I recognized as being near my time. I couldnt make out so much as a pyramid. Yet as I looked at the band of time all the individual people I understood with special clarity were living at the very moment with great emotion in intricate detail in their individual times and places and they were dying and being replaced by ever more people one by one like stitches in which whole worlds of feeling and energy were wrapped in a never-ending cloth. I remembered suddenly the color and texture of our life as we knew it- these things had been utterly forgotten- and I thought as I searched for it on the limitless band that was a good time then a good time to be living.And I began to remember our time. I recalled green fields with carrots growing one by one in slender rows. Men and women in bright vests and scarves came and pulled the carrots out of the soil and carried them in baskets to shaded kitchens where they scrubbed them with yellow brushes under running waterI saw may apples in forest erupting through leaf-strewn paths. Cells on the root hairs of sycamores split and divided and apples grew striped and spotted in the fall. Mountains kept their cool caves and squirrels raced home to their nests through sunlight and shade. I remembered the ocean and I seemed to be in the ocean myself swimming over orange crabs that looked like coral or off the deep Atlantic banks where whitefish school. Or again I saw the tops of poplars and the whole sky brushed with clouds in pallid streaks under which wilds ducks flew and called one by one and flew on. All these things I saw. Scenes grew in depth and sunlit detail before my eyes and were replaced by ever more scenes as I remembered the life of my time with increasing feeling. At last I saw the earth as a globe in space and I recalled the oceans shape and the form of continents saying to myself with surprise as I looked at the planet Yes thats how it was then that part there we called France. I was filled with the deep affection of nostalgia- and then I opened my eyes.
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Karen Blixen quote #60 from Out of Africa

It is when one begins to lose the consciousness of freedom and when the idea of necessity enters the world at all when there is any hurry or strain anywhere a letter to be written or a train to catch when you have got to work to make the horses of the dream gallop or to make the rifles go off that the dream is declining and turning into the nightmare which belongs to the poorest and most vulgar class of dreams.
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