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If you ‘expand’ Awareness and look to see if there is ‘someone’ here who is ‘thinking’, ‘seeing’ or ‘choosing’, one may notice how a habit automatically assumes the ‘identity’ of ‘thinker’, ‘I’ or ‘me’.
Gilbert Schultz • Self Illumination
The Nature of Mind
What's so great about being human? It might be this: The ability to know that we know gives us the ability to know ourselves, the ability to know that we exist and that we exist in an astonishing universe. It gives us the ability to fall in love with every thing and with eternity. If we are the only beings who know that we know, then we are the
... See moreBill Plotkin • Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World
Consciousness is the subtle and all-embracing mystery within and between Everything. It is like the air we breathe, take for granted, and do not appreciate. Consciousness is not the seeing but that which sees me seeing. It is not the knower but that which knows that I am knowing. It is not the observer but that which underlies and observes me
... See moreRichard Rohr • Breathing Under Water : Spirituality and the Twelve Steps
If you step back, you will clearly see that objects are constantly passing before you at all three levels: mental, emotional, and physical.
Michael A. Singer • The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
Meditative practice reveals that we are most fundamentally the opening of consciousness that watches thoughts coming and going, rather than the center of thought and intention with which we normally identify.
David Hinton • Hunger Mountain
Consciousness is neither pure nor impure; it has no qualities. It’s just there, aware that it’s aware. The difference is that when your consciousness is not centered within, it becomes totally focused on the objects of consciousness. When you are a centered being, however, your consciousness is always aware of being conscious. Your awareness of
... See moreMichael A. Singer • The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
Sentience isn’t even necessary to develop a “theory of mind”: you don’t need to be self-reflective in order to track others’ intentions97. Norretranders declared outright that “Consciousness is a fraud.”105
Peter Watts • Blindsight (Firefall Book 1)
In my proposal consciousness is an enriched state of mind. The enrichment consists in inserting additional elements of mind within the ongoing mind process. These additional mind elements are largely cut from the same cloth as the rest of the mind—they are imagetic—but thanks to their contents they announce firmly that all the mental contents to
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