Louis Sachar Quotes

Consciousness is not a bunch of thoughts or a certain level of understanding. Consciousness is a dimension that is beyond our physicality.

The full cosmos consists of the physical stuff and consciousness. Take away consciousness and it's only dust; add consciousness and you get things, ideas, and time.

I'm the idea of the human imagination, which, when you think about it, is the only thing we can really be certain ISN'T imaginary.

The material universe exists only in the mind.

This perceiving, active being is what I call mind, spirit, soul, or myself. By which words I do not denote any one of my ideas, but a thing entirely distinct from them, wherein they exist, or, which is the same thing, whereby they are perceived; for the existence of an idea consists in being perceived.

We are actually fourth dimensional beings in a third dimensional body inhabiting a second dimensional world!

Being is seeing in the human dimension.

The illusion is we are only physical.

There is an Indian fable of three beings who drank from a river: one was a god, and he drank ambrosia; one was a man, and he drank water; and one was a demon, and he drank filth. What you get is a function of your own consciousness.

Life itself is ... a sleep within a sleep.

Our life is a creation of our mind.

Each person is the universe from a particular perspective.

It is a remarkable question- Do all the wonderful things happen when we are not aware of them?

Truth happens to an idea

That in the soul which is called the mind is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing.

I give life to that which I notice. What I don't notice dies.

The dreams are the skeleton of all reality.

Living and dreaming are two different things - but you can't do one without the other.

Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.

Ideas too are a life and a world.

Would there be trees if we didn't see them?

The 'path' comes into existence only when we observe it.

No one thought up being. He who thinks he has, step forward.

There is neither past nor future. There is only the present. Yesterday was the present to you when you experienced it, and tomorrow will be also the present when you experience it. Therefore, experience takes place only in the present, and beyond experience nothing exists.

Without consciousness there would, practically speaking, be no world, for the world exists as such only in so far as it is consciously reflected and considered by a psyche. Consciousness is a precondition of being.