Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes

The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world.

Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed.

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.

Yet, the Universe is real enough to the conscious beings in it, which are as unreal as it is itself.

Nothing has existence unless you, I, or some living creature perceives it, and how it is perceived further influences that reality. Even time itself is not exempted from biocentrism.

The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.

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.

...separation of the observer from the phenomenon to be observed is no longer possible.

What you see is what you see.

The universe is wonderful, but only when there is somebody there to wonder at it.

Reality is observer-determined - it's a spatio-temporal process, which fortunately means that things must change.

We're not in the physical world. The physical world is in us. We create the physical world when we perceive it, when we observe it. And also we create this experience in our imagination. And when I say "we," I don't mean the physical body or the brain, but a deeper domain of consciousness which conceives, governs, constructs and actually becomes everything that we call physical reality.

Reality is mind-made.

Reality is a concept that depends largely upon where you point your face.

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.

You can't have a universe without the mind entering into it.

Quantum physics tells us that nothing that is observed is unaffected by the observer. That statement, from science, holds an enormous and powerful insight. It means that everyone sees a different truth because everyone is creating what they see.

The 'path' comes into existence only when we observe it.

We are not only observers. We are participators. In some strange sense this is aparticipatory universe.

The observer is the observed.

[D]oes the real world have any more substance than visions and hallucinations when we're having them? At any given moment, what's happening in our minds is all and everything that happens.

Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that. If you call it time, it is time. If you call it existence, it is existence, and so on. After calling it time, you divide it into days and nights, months, years, hours, minutes, etc. Time is immaterial for the Path of Knowledge.

As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.

If I realize that actually there's quantum mechanics happening around us all the time in some macroscopic, interconnected way, then that doesn't change my perception of it, that doesn't change my interaction with it; it just changes how I view my interaction.

All experience is subjective.