Jack Kerouac Quotes

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.

When I see a colour or hear a sound, I am aware of something, and not of nothing.

When we look for things there is nothing but mind, and when we look for mind there is nothing but things.

Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.

The world doesn't just disappear when you close your eyes, does it?

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.

Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.

The world is real. Consciousness is the illusion.

Without consciousness, space and time are nothing.

It's all real and it's all illusory: that's Awareness!

Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.

Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one's own awareness is direct knowledge.

To begin to understand the gorgeous fever that is consciousness, we must try to understand the senses and what they can tell us about the ravishing world we have the privilege to inhabit.

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.

There is no seeing. Seeing is only being.

Perspective - Use It or Lose It. If you turned to this page, you're forgetting that what is going on around you is not reality. Think about that.

I think that you really get what you recognize is in the universe.

That in the soul which is called the mind is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing.

Being is seeing in the human dimension.

How much of what we call 'reality' is actually out there or rather within our own head?

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.

All consciousness is consciousness of something: in thinking I am aware that my thought is 'pointing towards' some object.

It's pretty much a fact that our entire universe is a mental construct. We don't actually deal with reality directly. We simply compose a picture of reality from what's going on in our retinas, in the timpani of our ears, and in our nerve endings.

The difference between closing or opening your eyes is the choice between the imagined vs real. Blinking is only human.