Sri Aurobindo Quotes

Many people mistakenly suppose that the essence of consciousness is that of a control mechanism

How do you know, right now, that you are aware of being aware, or conscious?

I became really interested in the study of consciousness.

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

Consciousness is the feel of accessing memory.

Beyond mind, there is an awareness that is intrinsic, that is not given to you by the outside, and is not an idea - and there is no experiment up to now that has found any center in the brain which corresponds to awareness.

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.

If I use the word consciousness, in our lab, in our institute, what we mean is the special quality of mind, the special features that exist in the mind, that permit us to know, for example, that we, ourselves, exist, and that things exist around us.

You can indeed be aware of your body, but you can also be aware of your mind - you can right now notice all the thoughts and ideas and images floating in front of the mind's inward eye. You can, in other words, experience your mind, be aware of your mind. And it's very important to experience your mind directly, cleanly, intensely, because only by bringing awareness to the mind can you begin to transcend the mind and be free of its limitations.

Life is consciousness.

Thinking is only a small aspect of consciousness. Thought cannot exist without consciousness, but consciousness does not need thought

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

Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way.

Mind is not your intelligence.

Consciousness is nothing but awareness the composite of all the thing we pay attention to.

For our purposes as human beings, the mind is the center of everything.

It seems to me a worthy goal: try to create a representation of consciousness that's durable and truthful, i.e., that accounts, somewhat, for all the strange, tiny, hard-to-articulate, instantaneous, unwilled things that actually go on in our minds in the course of a given day, or even a given moment.

What does it mean, exactly, for a given system to be a 'neural correlate of consciousness'?

The great mystery of our consciousness is beyond our grasp.

The mind is the root from which all things grow if you can understand the mind, everything else is included.

Consciousness is the glory of creation.

Consciousness is a disease.

The forms of my awareness are richer than yours.

Nature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us.