Nature and the Greeks (1954)
Context: The observing mind is not a physical system, it cannot interact with any physical system. And it might be better to reserve the term "subject" for the observing mind. … For the subject, if anything, is the thing that senses and thinks. Sensations and thoughts do not belong to the "world of energy."
“The sensation of energy expands with increasing relaxation.”
“O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts!”
Letter to Benjamin Bailey (November 22, 1817)
Letters (1817–1820)
Source: Letters of John Keats
6 Sept 1890.
Private Journal - A collage of notes and images, sketches kept 1888-1895 & 1907 to 1940
“Sensation is a subjective image of the objective world.”
Source: Materialism and Empirio-Criticism (1908), p. 116
Source: Letters & Autobiographical Writings (1954), p. 187.
Source: The devil in the hills (1949), Chapter 9, p. 319
Source: Liber Kaos (1992), p. 87
Context: The Conscious mind is a maelstrom of fleeting thoughts, images, sensations, feelings, conflicting desires, and doubts; barely able to confine its attention to a single clear objective for a microsecond before secondary thoughts begin to adulterate it and provoke yet further trains of mental discourse. If you do not believe this, then attempt to confine your conscious attention to the dot at the end of this sentence without involving yourself in any other form of thinking, including thinking about the dot.
“No amount of energy will take the place of thought.”
The Good Old Way
Joy and Power http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10395/10395-h/10395-h.htm (1903)
