Henry Reed Quotes

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.

Thinking is only a small aspect of consciousness. Thought cannot exist without consciousness, but consciousness does not need thought

Become conscious of being conscious.

Consciousness is nothing but awareness the composite of all the thing we pay attention to.

Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.

How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.

Consciousness is the perception of what passes in man's own mind.

If I use the word consciousness, in our lab, in our institute, what we mean is the special quality of mind, the special features that exist in the mind, that permit us to know, for example, that we, ourselves, exist, and that things exist around us.

I break up through the skin of awareness a thousand times a day, as dolphins burst through seas, and dive again, and rise, and dive.

When you listen to a thought, you are aware not only of the thought but also of yourself as the witness of the thought. A new dimension of consciousness has come in.

If you're aware when it's going on, you can deal with it and change it. If you're not aware of it, you'll be mystified at the states that come and go seemingly without reason.

Whatever we know without inference is mental.

First Sight means you can see what really is there, and Second Thoughts mean thinking about what you are thinking. And in Tiffany's case, there were sometimes Third Thoughts and Fourth Thoughts although these...sometimes led her to walk into doors.

Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way.

If you keep examining your mind, you'll come to see that thoughts of who you are and how it all is are creating the reality you're experiencing.

If we are in silence - in absolute silence with no thoughts - for 10 minutes, it's only a thought that tells us we were silent for 10 minutes. Our only proof is a thought.

There is thought, and then there is thinking about thoughts, and they don't feel the same.

You don't really see yourself doing things, of course, but you feel.

Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.

I have no inner monologue.

It is what makes us human, what distinguishes us from other animals. We can be aware of being aware.

I am not what I think. I am thinking what I think.

Behaviour arises from the level of one's consciousness.

There's a constant drip and trickle of life that goes into one's awareness really and consciousness of things.

The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.