Rajneesh Quotes

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

What's more valuable - intelligence or consciousness?

The most important part of ourselves is the mind, and it has been rather inaccessible.

The individual is the brain, not the heart.

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

The senses collect the surface facts of matter... It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience; when mind acted, it was knowledge; when mind acted on it as knowledge, it was thought.

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.

The strength of your memory dictates the size of your reality

Mind is memory, not intelligence.

It's very interesting to think about the distinction with mind, which I just made in very general terms, but it can be made more profound when we think that there are many species, many creatures on earth that are very likely to have a mind, but are very unlikely to have a consciousness in the sense that you and I have.

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

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

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.

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

The great mystery of our consciousness is beyond our grasp.

I think that consciousness has always been the most important topic in the philosophy of mind, and one of the most important topics in cognitive science as a whole, but it had been surprisingly neglected in recent years.

Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.

Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.

I became really interested in the study of consciousness.

Without consciousness, space and time are nothing.

Everybody agrees that the brain is a remarkable machine. It's capable of generating an enormous number of phenomena, some of them very obvious and some of them less obvious. But I think that in the end there are going to be some very basic explanations for many things: emotions, awareness, consciousness, attention, perception, recognition.

The forms of my awareness are richer than yours.

Consciousness allows you the capacity to plan.

Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.

The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.