You come to this place, mid-life. You don’t know how you got here, but suddenly you’re staring fifty in the face. When you turn and look back down the years, you glimpse the ghosts of other lives you might have led; all houses are haunted. The wraiths and phantoms creep under your carpets and between the warp and weft of fabric, they lurk in wardrobes and lie flat under drawer-liners. You think of the children you might have had but didn’t. When the midwife says, ‘It’s a boy,’ where does the girl go? When you think you’re pregnant, and you’re not, what happens to the child that has already formed in your mind? You keep it filed in a drawer of your consciousness, like a short story that never worked after the opening lines.
Hilary MantelTag: life consciousness
The story of my own childhood is a complicated sentence that I am always trying to finish, to finish and put behind me. It resists finishing, and partly this is because words are not enough; my early world was synaesthesic, and I am haunted by the ghosts of my own sense impressions, which re-emerge when I try to write, and shiver between the lines.
Hilary MantelTag: life consciousness past childhood ghosts
Was I asleep? Had I slept?
Samuel BeckettTag: consciousness reality sleep dream waiting
I don't believe that consciousness is generated by the brain. I believe that the brain is more of a reciever of consciousness.
Graham HancockTag: consciousness brain
It may be that DMT makes us able to perceive what the physicist call "dark matter" - the 95 per cent of the universe's mass that is known to exist but that at present remains invisible to our senses and instruments.
Graham HancockTag: consciousness dmt
We all woke up this morning and we had with it the amazing return of our conscious mind. We recovered minds with a complete sense of self and a complete sense of our own existence — yet we hardly ever pause to consider this wonder.
António R. DamásioTag: consciousness sleep dreams awakening
There's no consciousness without senses and memories.
Toba BetaTag: consciousness memories senses
The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there. -Yasutani Roshi, Zen master (1885-1973)
Yasutani RoshiTag: consciousness humanity understanding interconnectedness being interdependency
How I wished during those sleepless hours that I belonged to a different nation, or better still, to none at all.
W.G. SebaldTag: consciousness foreign alien countriless stateless unfitting
Thinking can only serve to measure out the helplessness of thought.
H. Rider HaggardTag: consciousness perception thinking thought ego helplessness
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