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Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

Everything depends therefore on encountering thought at its source. Such thought is the reality of man's being, which achieved consciousness and understanding of itself through it.

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

Any thought that is passed on to the subconscious often enough and convincingly enough is finally accepted.

The conscious process is reflected in the imagination; the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling.

Consciousness turns out to consist of a maelstrom of events distributed across the brain. These events compete for attention, and as one process outshouts the others, the brain rationalizes the outcome after the fact and concocts the impression that a single self was in charge all along.

Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery - it recharges by running.

Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.

A thought is an idea in transit.

Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable.