Quotes About Consciousness

The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.

Everything seems to have a soul – wood, stones, the wine we drink and the earth we tread on. Everything, do you hear me, absolutely everything.

there are those who aim at living the life of the entire universe - everything, men, animals, trees, stars, we are all one, we are all one substance involved in the same terrible struggle. What struggle?... Turning matter into spirit.

WITH CLARITY and quiet, I look upon the world and say: All that I see, hear, taste, smell, and touch are the creations of my mind.

My heart knows what my mind only think it knows.

Waking up is not a selfish pursuit of happiness, it is a revolutionary stance, from the inside out, for the benefit of all beings in existence.

The body breathes by itself. The mind thinks by itself. Awareness simply observes the process without getting lost in the content.

People not only don't know what's happening to them, they don't even know that they don't know.

Well, I'm not sure the New York Times was consciously trying to trivialise me, but the effect of it is to put everything in the same category as the gossip you read in the magazines you pick up at supermarket counters. I was asked, for example, why I thought there were so many euphemisms for genitalia . It's not a serious question. Whatever the purpose of such a tone is, the effect is to make it appear that anyone who departs from orthodox political doctrine is in some ways laughable.

You aren't supposed to learn that dedicated, committed effort can bring about significant changes of consciousness and understanding. That's a very dangerous idea, and therefore it's been wiped out of history.

This is a very important kind of step, to think about the fact that much of behavior is rule-bound, and this is what Giddens is thinking about when he says that practical consciousness works for most everyday situations, but there are circumstances in which we begin to become aware that we have internalized a whole number of rule-governed behaviors (1984).

Consciousness is some kind of peripheral thing which picks up some of what's going on in our head.

We know in one part of our brains that we are all going to die, but on some level we don't quite believe it.

So many of the conscious and unconscious ways men and women treat each other have to do with romantic and sexual fantasies that are deeply ingrained not just in society but in literature.The women's movement may manage to clean up the mess in society, but I don't know if it can clean up the mess in our minds.

On some level, my life has been wasted on me. After all, if I can't remember it, who can? The past is slipping away and the present is a constant affront. I can't possibly keep up.

I promised myself that no matter where I went, what I did, I'd never take anything for granted again.

Body adornments show that we're aware of our bodies and expect others to be aware as well.

It's better to see and know you're a fool than to keep your eyes shut and keep acting like one.

It's better to see and know you're a fool than to keep your eyes shut and keep acting like one.

I find that when you look too far ahead, you end up tripping over the present. Let's just worry about the now, Jared." When he lifted her hand to his lips, Savannah realized that now was going to be trouble enough.

You're thinking too much. Try being in the moment. It'll amaze you.

Drunkenness is a voluntary madness.' Can't think right off who said that, but it rings true.

Connor stared at his arm, at the huge black burn, the peeling and bubbling skin. He felt oddly detached from it all, as if he looked at some little wonder behind glass. "Would you look at that?" he said, and passed out.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.