Quotes About Consciousness

As he sat before the elderly Irishman in his boxcar, the moment of realization suddenly tumbled into Elefante's consciousness with startling efficiency, landing on his insides with a heaviness that felt like a blacksmith's hammer falling on an anvil.

Sometimes I dream of sleepiness, sometimes I feel like I'm alive.

True poets lead no one unawares. It is nothing other than awareness that poets-that is, creators of all sorts-seek. They do not display their art so as to make it appear real; they display the real in a way that reveals it to be art.

It's wherever you are. If it's tapped into any of your senses, it knows where you are and what you're doing." Oh no, I thought, my spirits sinking. I hadn't considered that. Did that mean nothing I did was ever anymore? "Even in the bathroom?" the Gasman's eyes widened with surprise.

Why, the little Voice inside my head, of course. You mean you don't have one? I did.

My eyes flickered when I heard the Voice inside my head. (You mean you don't have one? You can get 'em at Target.)

We are the sum of our thoughts. What you choose to dwell on will dictate your emotions.

Total paranoia is just total awareness.

every passing moment looking at the corpse, I became aware

snapping me back to reality.

Because there's a big hole in their brains where most people have a conscience.

She braked at Washington, watched the

and the gradual realization that he was

Unfortunately, a human being is able to comprehend only that amount of evil which he is able to commit himself.

As far as I understand, the Second Coming is already here. It's a consciousness. It is not someone who is going to arrive and land in a clearing in the forest. The Hell that they talk of is going to be people creating their own unhappiness, a Hell on Earth.

In the theatre, because you're all looking at the same thing in the same space, consciousness is no longer individual. There is a unified consciousness. Until you look and project what is happening, it doesn't exist; the audience are the ones making the theatre, not the players.

The power of our conscious mind is unimaginable.

The only conclusion you can draw from the real historical movement is that by and large, in day-to-day life, what Lenin called trade union consciousness dominates the working class. I would call it elementary class consciousness of the working class.

Amazon is certainly not a perfect company. However, doctors, teachers, engineers, journalists, politicians, and labor unions are also on a continuum of consciousness, and none are perfect either. It is easy to judge and find fault with any company if that is what one's ideological biases wish to see.

The human race is a herd. Here we are, unique, eternal aspects of consciousness with an infinity of potential, and we have allowed ourselves to become an unthinking, unquestioning blob of conformity and uniformity. A herd. Once we concede to the herd mentality, we can be controlled and directed by a tiny few. And we are.

There is no unique picture of reality.

I can explain my body and my brain, but there's something more. I can't explain my own existence - what makes me a unique human being.

I don't consciously do anything to maintain a unique voice.

Many cultures have independently developed a belief system in reincarnation that includes return of the unit of consciousness to another physical lifetime on Earth.