Just a moment...
when we are born, we experience reality with very few “priors” – preexisting beliefs, expectations, conceptual schemas through which to filter what we see. And so a child’s experience is an endless explosion of vividness. Slowly we start to make sense of the world, we start to notice repeating patterns, we start to establish boundaries between “me”... See more
Kasra • Tastes of magic
Everyone is an artist. Everyone is involved, whether they like it or not, in the construction of their world. Consciousness is always consciousness of something. There is no fixed world out there, the world is coming toward you and you are coming toward it. And between the two of you, you actually construct the world. It’s never as given as it actu
... See moreJohn O'Donohue • John O’Donohue — The Inner Landscape of Beauty
ourselves, our primary process, seems fairly clear. Then, as the work progresses and we begin to pick up what has been further from consciousness and experience more of the original secondary process, our identity changes and we no longer identify with our original selves. We transform, and get a new primary process. At that moment of new identity,
... See moreAmy Mindell, Arnold Mindell • Riding the Horse Backwards
Your experience changes constantly, and so does the intimate context of your life — but you concentrate upon points of order, in your terms, that actually serve to scale down the context of your experience to make it more comprehensible. There are no such limits naturally set about your consciousness.
Jane Roberts • The Nature of the Psyche
But insofar as I understand it, it’s just as you say—we can only know the world through our own consciousness, our own I. But we also know that everyone else has, everyone is their own I. In a way, there is only one I. It’s a thought that I’ve been turning around in my mind for many years, and every now and then, it strikes me anew. And I see it as... See more