Eva Mendes Quotes

If we are to know ourselves, philosophy needs to maintain an ongoing dialogue with the sciences of mind.

I worry that we don't have a very good definition of consciousness yet which makes it hard to tackle.

Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery... a topic that often leaves even the most sophisticated thinkers tongue-tied and confused. And, as with all of the earlier mysteries, there are many who insist - and hope - that there will never be a demystification of consciousness.

Even when I was studying mathematics, physics, and computer science, it always seemed that the problem of consciousness was about the most interesting problem out there for science to come to grips with.

I became really interested in the study of consciousness.

I was reading Omar Khayyam, Kahlil Gibran, Rumi, L. Ron Hubbard, all sorts of philosophy. Bebop cats are like that. Curious. I wanted to know about everything.

I love philosophy and spirituality and leveling-up books and science books.

To be conscious of Being, you need to reclaim consciousness from the mind. This is one of the most essential tasks on your spiritual journey.

Paul Brunton's Notebooks are a veritable treasure-trove of philosophic-spiritual wisdom.

Consciousness poses the most baffling problems in the science of the mind. There is nothing that we know more intimately than conscious experience, but there is nothing that is harder to explain.

An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.

Perhaps people need to understand some history here. Rene Descartes, in the late 16th, early 17th century, postulated that body, mind, physicality and spirituality belonged to different realms of reality that didn't interact. On a positive side, it got the Inquisition off the backs of the intellectuals and they quit burning them at the stake for disagreeing with the Church.

Those who see any difference between soul and body have neither

Until the mind is open, the heart stays closed. The open mind is the key to the open heart.

What's most interesting about trying to figure out AI is the questions that it forces you to ask about the nature of consciousness.

The statements of atheists ought to be perfectly clear of doubt. Now it is not perfectly clear that the soul is material.

The mind sees the world as a thing apart, And the soul makes the world at one with itself. A mirror scratched reflects no image— And this is the silence of wisdom.

The world is perfect. As you question your mind, this becomes more and more obvious.

Historically, the East was more concerned with understanding the mind and the West was more involved in understanding matter.

Either you're a person wondering if you have a soul, or you're a soul who knows that being a person isn't real.

I desire therefore I exist.

Which came first, the mind or the idea of the mind? Have you never wondered? They arrived together. The mind is an idea.

Some lose all mind and become soul,insane. some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual. some lose both and become accepted

A mature mind is one who understands the impossibility of knowing the ultimate, and with this understanding there is a new dimension: the dimension of being.

The height of all philosophy is to know thyself; and the end of this knowledge is to know God.