Neal Cassady Quotes

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

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

Apart from the body does the world exist? Has anyone seen the world without the body?

No one knows how this world came into being. It is a creation of consciousness itself. It's extraordinary, a mystery.

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

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.

The Universe is a mirror of consciousness.

Being is seeing in the human dimension.

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.

Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world.

Time is the element that controls the consciousness, the very being of the people.

The simple fact of existence, of being aware that you are aware; this to me is the most astounding fact.

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 very act of questioning whether you exist proves you do, because you must be there for the doubt to be entertained in the first place.

Life is a state of consciousness.

Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.

There is no such thing as death; life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.

I also believe that when one dies, one may wake up to the reality that proves that time does not exist.

The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.

Even in empty space, time and space still exist.

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

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

I read somewhere that some people believe that the entire universe is a matrix of living thought. And I said, "Man, if that's not a definition of God, I don't know what is.

Words stand between silence and silence: between the silence of things and the silence of our own being. Between the silence of the world and the silence of God. When we have really met and known the world in silence, words do not separate us from the world nor from other men, nor from God, nor from ourselves because we no longer trust entirely in language to contain reality.

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.