Eric Butterworth Quotes

Consciousness in the individual is that area where the totality of life is located.

Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.

Life is a state of consciousness.

Consciousness ... is the phenomenon whereby the universe's very existence is made known.

Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.

The consciousness of life is higher than life.

The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the inner man, or more accurately, there is no inner man, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself.

The simple fact of existence, of being aware that you are aware; this to me is the most astounding fact.

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

I want to see, that's all. This is my life. I want to see.

On the other hand, for the whole human being who wills, feels, and represents, external reality is given simultaneously and with as much certitude as his own self.

Life is but thought.

Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness.

Without consciousness, space and time are nothing.

There is no such thing as death; life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.

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

It's all real and it's all illusory: that's Awareness!

One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.

The primary Reality is not what I think, but that I live, for those also live who do not think.

That which is not present in deep dreamless sleep is not real

Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.

[L]et my reader who is puzzled by my awkward explanations close his eyes for no more than two minutes, and see if he does not find himself suddenly not a compact human being at all, but only a consciousness on a sea of sound and touch . . .

Awareness means grasping life just the way it is, without contamination by mental projections.

The physical universe that you see is all in your mind. When you turn your mind off, or become unconscious, the physical universe, for you, disappears. Then, when you awaken your consciousness, the universe reappears magically. Quite simple really - no thoughts on your part, no physical world. As Walt Whitman succinctly stated: "The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual - namely to You." Without your mind to process it, the universe simply disappears into nothingness.

Our life is not so much threatened as our perception. Ghostlike we glide through nature, and should not know our place again.