Zora Neale Hurston Quotes

The mind is always present. You just don't see it.

it is in our minds that we live much of our life.

We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.

Consciousness is the perception of what passes in man's own mind.

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

Consciousness is the foundation of all thinking; and thinking is the foundation of all consciousness.

The feeling of an unbridgeable gulf between consciousness and brain-process:When does this feeling occur in the present case?It is when I (for example) turn my attention in a particular way on to my own consciousness, and, astonished, say to myself: THIS is supposed to be produced by a process in the brain!--as it were clutching my forehead.

To think is not always to see.

Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human.

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.

I don't talk about consciousness. I talk about interiority.

The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.

The thought is not something that observes an inner event, but, rather it is this inner event itself. We do not reflect on something, but, rather, something thinks itself in us.

I break up through the skin of awareness a thousand times a day, as dolphins burst through seas, and dive again, and rise, and dive.

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

It's just a constant thing when the mind starts to wake up to itself.

Consciousness is a sea ringed with visions.

Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought 'I' is the first thought.

Memory marks the horizon of our consciousness, imagination its zenith.

Self-awareness includes awareness of your mental realm, which encompasses your thoughts, feelings, energy, and emotions.

Whatever we know without inference is mental.

Strictly speaking, you don't think: Thinking happens to you.

It seems to me that the real problem is the mind itself and not the problem which the mind has created and tries to solve.

We are not passive exhibitors of visual or auditory or tactile images. We have selves. We have a Me that is automatically present in our minds right now.

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.