Quotes About Consciousness

I am God to the cells that compose me.

Call it swoon, or call it hypnosis--but that it is never absolute, and that all of us sometimes have awareness of our condition, and moments of wondering what it's all about and why we do and think the things that sometimes we wake up and find ourselves doing and thinking. Upon

undistorted interpretation of external sounds in the mind of a dreamer could not continue to exist in a dreaming mind, because that touch of relative realness would be of awakening and not of dreaming.

When we walk into a wood, we share its sensory outputs (light, colour, smell, sound and so on) with all the other creatures there. But would any of them recognise our description of the wood? Every organism creates a different world in its brain. It lives in that world.

animal. Our self-reflective perception, our judging and choosing, are what constitute our soul, our consciousness, our conscience (sometimes).

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

You ought to have fully and clearly in your own mind a good reason for everything you do, for everything you learn, for everything you eat, for everything you drink.

Let us still believe that the nerves proceed from the heart, and not from the brain, and that the heart is the seat of consciousness, and that the ring-finger is (as Aulus Gellius asserts) in the most direct communication with it!

If you don't recognize an ingredient, your body won't either.

I take the music of language very seriously. Like a heartbeat, it exists right below consciousness — it animates and infuses your language with life.... A good sentence should sound good and feel good and roll comfortably off your tongue, not simply serve as a conveyor for ideas.

Don't fake-live. Don't zombie-out as life goes by. Actually live!

With the Past, as past, I have nothing to do; nor with the Future, as future. I live now...

Let the credit card companies market as they will, the only thing that's priceless is Now.

In this light, let's not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Look both ways before entering the insanity.

Meditation is not only sitting still like a Buddha-figure, nor is it thinking about something, for the Upanishads say that the stars, the trees, the rivers, and the mountains are meditating — unconsciously. Conscious meditation is a knack, and as an exercise it is a way of learning that Enlightenment comes to pass in us as much when we are doing nothing to produce it as when we are in the midst of activity.

Meditation does not answer the questions of the mind, but it dissolves the very mind which creates many questions and confusion in our life.

If recollecting were forgetting Then I remember not. And if forgetting, recollecting, How near I had forgot!...

Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

And this prime hour of fragrance is the hour so many miss upon beds of sloth, never half knowing what a beautiful, marvellous world is around them. Not all the long hours of day can possibly bring back again the charm and blessedness of this, either to the body or to the soul.

I need one of those baby monitors for my subconscious to my consciousness so I can know what the hell I'm really thinking about.

I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness — a real thoroughgoing illness.

There is no way you can use the word "reality" without quotation marks around it.

...human kind Cannot bear very much reality. Time past and time future What might have been and what has been Point to one end, which is always present.