“Meditation is a practice of detaching and then stopping ourselves from thinking; our thoughts are interruptions in the flow of awareness. Consciousness, in its highest aspect, is perfect and formless.” ThinkingPerfectConsciousnessPracticeMeditationAwarenessBuddhismHighestAspectFlowOur ThoughtsStoppingInterruptions Author:Frederick Lenz
“Because our consciousness doesn’t die at death, we carry our mind-set of thoughts and beliefs with us to the other side. As in life, so in death. When we cross over into the other dimensions, we continue to create experiences through our thoughts, the same way we did in life.” WayMindDiesBeliefSidesConsciousnessCrossesDimensionsOur ThoughtsMind Set Author:James Van Praagh
“Pattern recognition and association make up the core of our thought. These activities involve millions of operations carried out in parallel, outside the field of our consciousness. If AI appeared to hit a brick wall after a few quick victories, it did so owing to its inability to emulate these processes.” IfsProcessConsciousnessMillionsFieldsWallVictoryActivityPatternsCoreRecognitionOperationsArtificial IntelligenceAssociationOur ThoughtsInabilityBricksParallelsEmulateOwingBrick Wall Author:Daniel Crevier
“The memories which peaceful country scenes call up, are not of this world, nor of its thoughts and hopes. Their gentle influence may teach us how to weave fresh garlands for the graves of those we loved: may purify our thoughts, and bear down before it old enmity and hatred; but beneath all this, there lingers, in the least reflective mind, a vague and half-formed consciousness of having held such feelings long before, in some remote and distant time, which calls up solemn thoughts of distant times to come, and bends down pride and worldliness beneath it.” WorldMindMayLongCountryFeelingsNatureMemoriesHalfConsciousnessTeachInfluenceThis WorldPrideBearsSceneHatredGravesPeacefulGentleOur ThoughtsVagueSolemnEnmityGarlandsWorldlinessPeaceful Country Book:Oliver Twist Source: Oliver Twist
“You go to the marketplace and there are seventeen consciousnesses moving in and out. Sometimes you want the same shirt that I want, and our thought bubbles collide a bit and that makes plot.” WantSometimesMovingBitsConsciousnessShirtsPlotBubblesOur ThoughtsMarketplaceSeventeenMoving InCollide Author:George Saunders