26 Quotes by Amit Goswami

For many years quantum physics had been giving indications that there are levels of reality other than the material level.

All the world of experience, including matter, is the material manifestation of transcendent forms of consciousness.

I had vainly been seeking a description of consciousness within science; instead, what I and others have to look for is a description of science within consciousness. We must develop a science compatible with consciousness, our primary experience.

If ordinary people really knew that consciousness and not matter is the link that connects us with each other and the world, then their views about war and peace, environmental pollution, social justice, religous values, and all other human endeavors would change radically.

When we are aware of our inner-growth potential yet have no pretensions about ourselves, when we are vulnerable, then we can change.

Start with yourself. Only if you change can the world change. We are just taking it a little bit further. Not only do you start with yourself, but always remember others.

The idea that consciousness is the ground of being is the basis of all spiritual traditions.

The world is not determined by initial conditions, once and for all. Every event of measurement is potentially creative and may open new possibilities.

Moreover, it seems absurd that an epiphenomenon of matter can affect matter: If consciousness is an epiphenomenon, how can it collapse the spread-out wave of a quantum object to a localized particle when it takes a quantum measurement?