Heraclitus Quotes

Those who are awake all live in the same world. Those who are asleep live in their own worlds.

What is being awake if not interpreting our dreams, or dreaming if not interpreting our wake?

There is but one world common for those who are awake, but when men are asleep, each turns away into a world of his own.

The waking have one common world, but the sleeping turn aside each into a world of his own

When we're awake, we see what we need to see. When we're asleep, we see what is really there.

If your eyes weren't open, you wouldn't know the difference between dreaming and waking.

If there were nothing but thought in you, you wouldn't even know you are thinking. You would be like a dreamer who doesn't know he is dreaming. When you know you are dreaming, you are awake within the dream.

We wake sleeping, and sleep waking. I do not see so clearly in my sleep; but as to my being awake, I never found it clear enough and free from clouds.

Every morning we awaken from sleep and from our dreams and enter the state we call wakefulness. A continuous stream of thoughts, most of them repetitive, characterizes the normal wakeful state.

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.

The world doesn't just disappear when you close your eyes, does it?

We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we feel all this may be real.

Are you sure/That we are awake? It seems to me/That yet we sleep, we dream

Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.

Studying consciousness tells us more about how the world is fundamentally strange. I think we have a few revolutions to go yet before we get to the bottom of it.

In Psychology we deal with minds and their processes, and leave out of account as far as possible the objects that we get to know by means of them.

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.

Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.

We live within this reality we create, and we're quite unaware of how we create the reality. So the work is often a general koan into how we go about forming this world in which we live, in particular with seeing.

The world consists of images on a screen, and consciousness is the steady light that emanates from the projector.

Since consciousness is the basis of all reality, any shift in consciousness changes every aspect of our reality. Reality is created by consciousness differentiating into cognition, moods, emotions, perceptions, behavior, speech, social interactions, environment, interaction with the forces of nature, and biology. As consciousness evolves, these different aspects of consciousness also change.

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.

Psychedelic experiences and dreams are chemical cousins; they are only different in degree.

We bring about a world in consciousness that is partly what is given, and partly what we bring, something that comes into being through this particular conjunction and no other. And the key to this is the kind of attention we pay to the world.