Eric Butterworth Quotes

Is perception equivalent to existence?

What a person thinks about determines what he is.

Life is consciousness.

We are what we think.

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

I wish the children could be taught early on that our thinking creates our experience.

The mind, whatever else it is, is a constant of everyone's experience, and, in more ways than we know, the creator of the reality that we live within... Nothing is more essential to us.

Life is a state of consciousness.

Life is but thought.

What we think, we become.

The primary Reality is not what I think, but that I live, for those also live who do not think.

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

Life is whatever we conceive it to be.

Everything hangs on one's thinking.

There is no seeing. Seeing is only being.

The leading edge of reality is mind, and mind is the primary substratum of being.

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

Consciousness in the individual is that area where the totality of life is located.

Being is seeing in the human dimension.

Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.

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 problem is we think we exist.

It is clear that every immediate object of our senses both exists and is real in the primary meaning of these terms so long as we remain aware of the object.

To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive.