Albert Hofmann Quotes

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

Because no man can ever feel his own identity aright except his eyes be closed; as if darkness were indeed the proper element of our essences, though light be more congenial to our clayey part.

I know that I exist; the question is, What is this 'I' that 'I' know.

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.

Life is consciousness.

The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or that it presided over the birth of the universe.

The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.

Only a spiritual being has awareness.

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

In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.

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.

Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.

I think that our personalities and our souls have so much - we're so much more than just blood vessels and bone and muscle.

I--this thought which is called I--is the mould into which the world is poured like melted wax.

Where are my sensations? They have melted into... me, and what is this me, this self, but the sum of these evaporated sensations?

Of course I'm a fake. We're all fakes on this whole world, pretending to be something we're not. We are not just bodies walking around, not just atoms, molecules. We are unkillable, undestroyable ideas of the IS, no matter how much we believe otherwise.

I can feel this heart inside me and I conclude it exists. I can touch this world and I also conclude that it exists. All my knowledge ends at this point. The rest is hypothesis.

I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.

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

This was real. And it was me. I had lived that life, and I had died that death. I was staring at the very end of me.

You are not a human being. You are not your body, you are not your mind, and you are not your soul. These are things that You have. The You that has these things - indeed, that has given your Self these things - is far bigger than any of them, and even all of them put together.

Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.

A conscious mind is a mind with a self in it.

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