Quotes About Consciousness

There's no need to act just because you have a feeling.

The quality of your life will depend entirely on the focus of your attention.

Rather than going from where we are to where we want to be, we need to remember to be where we are, here, now. We don 't need to go anywhere else or do anything else. We don't need to go from here to there; we need to return from there to here.

Cheryl Mendelson

I did not cry. I only breathed. Horribly. Intentionally. And then forgot to breathe.

Art isn't anecdote. It's the consciousness we bring to bear in our lives.

It isn't enough to have had an interesting or hilarious or tragic life. Art isn't anecdote. It's the consciousness we bring to bear on our lives. For what happened in the story to transcend the limits of the personal, it must be driven by the engine of what the story means.

There are stories hidden in the language we use, whether we're conscious of them or not. They tell the truth of our hearts and minds.

Be present for your own life.

There are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns. That is to say, we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, the ones we don't know we don't know.

Someone was in here. It was me. I was here. I felt it in a way I hadn't in ages: the me inside of me, occupying my spot in the fathomless Milky Way.

Art isn't anecdote. It's the consciousness we bring to bear on our lives.

There's a poem by Adrienne Rich I first read twenty years ago called "Splittings" that I thought of when I read your letter. The last two lines of the poem are: "I choose to love this time fore once / with all my intelligence.

just close your eyes and remember everything you already know.

I can't help but quote the former secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld, who quite wisely said: "There are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns. That is to say, we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, the ones we don't know we don't know.

I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence

The world's most sensible person and the biggest idiot both stay within us. The worst part is, you can't even tell who is who.

É sempre bom lembrar que um copo vazio está cheio de ar.

Here, in your mind, you have complete privacy. Here there's no difference between what is and what could be.

With all your science can you tell how it is, and whence it is, that light comes into the soul?

BRAIN, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think.

But what minutes! Count them by sensation and not by calendars, and each moment is a day and the race a life.

Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.

I really must give up animal food. We manage to swallow flesh only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing we do... If only we do not allow our heart to grow callous, its protest against cruelty is always clearly heard; and yet we go on perpetrating cruelties easily, merrily, all of us — in fact, any one who does not join in is dubbed a crank.