Quotes About Consciousness

To understand music, you must listen to it. But so long as you are thinking, "I am listening to this music," you are not listening.

Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens.

In the midst of creating, a person is raised to another level of consciousness that doesn't have that much to do with everyday thinking. It's as if you could imagine life before there were words.

We rarely hear the inward music, but we're all dancing to it nevertheless.

Creative Arts raise a person to another level of consciousness as if you could imagine life before words.

Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.

However, in modern conceptual frameworks there is a more sophisticated view. I would say that the act of music exists in several worlds simultaneously.

Though I know consciousness kind of boxes you in, it still encompasses the artists that I knew were conscious throughout history of music - they're the ones that you look at as the legends.

Alcohol make you drunk, man. It don't make you meditate, it just make you drunk. Herb is more a consciousness.

Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique.

Music is silence, which in dreaming begins to sound

Music is what you notice when it's no longer in your presence.

why something and not nothing? why music and not noise?

Everything on earth is beautiful, everything -- except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.

Thus one should know oneself to be of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss[Sat-Chit-Ananda].

The witness of the three states of consciousness [waking, dream and deep sleep] and of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss is the Self

Man is above all else mind, consciousness -- that is, he is a product of history, not of nature.

His essential nature is sat-chit-ananda: (Sat) Absolute Being - He encompasses everything because there is nothing outside of him; (Chit) Absolute Consciousness - He is the complete consciousness

When you have abandoned all past and future, it is as if you have come alive. You are here, mindful...the nature of all types of consciousness reveals itself.

Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.

All beings are by nature are Buddhas, as ice by nature is water. Apart from water there is no ice; apart from beings, no Buddhas.

The whole world is an art gallery when you're mindful. There are beautiful things everywhere and they're free.

You govern your surroundings by the nature of what is taking place in your consciousness.

Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.