Quotes About Consciousness

My number one thing is to recycle everything from newspaper to aluminum cans, and I even use a canvas bag instead of the plastic ones when I go to the grocery store.

I never write something and consciously embed political commentary or any other kind of commentary. I just try to get the characters into a room or out of a room, or onto the plane, or through the grocery store. The political stuff, the class stuff, the gender stuff, is in the air, it's in their interactions, because it's there for all of us.

Sam Walton instilled ownership of the products in the stores into the collective consciousness of every associate regardless of what job they did for the company.

The more you control where your food comes from instead of relying on restaurants, fast food joints, convenience stores and other processed sources, the better off you're going to be.

It is my belief that all gods are stories, or at least the ideas behind stories, but stories or ideas that have become in some way almost alive and aware.

Reality, by itself, becomes a story by Philip K. Dick.

This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.

Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic.

You know what's strange? A lot of men don't dream in color. Women will dream in color more than men.

I was saying earlier that it's really strange - you can almost step outside yourself and observe yourself running, and that's what I was doing.

One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.

Androids were never meant to dream.

To recount modern life one has to have characters with iPads and smart phones who take trains and planes, and to be aware how this alters consciousness, identity, and the kind of experiences people have. They are constantly exposed to contact from everyone they know and many they don't.

Life is not a dream it is a thing

Jacky, who had read and admired Mary Wollstonecraft, and despised the fashion of fluttery helplessness in women, felt, to her own annoyance, close to fainting.

I am on a path of understanding more and more about myself every day and shifting my perspective just like my father did. I'm becoming more conscious about what I'm ignoring or denying, and my learning process has become faster, my struggles fewer and less intense.

No sé por qué debería explicar lo que hago. ¿Por qué no puedo hacer exactamente lo que estoy haciendo? Es magnífico estar afuera en la madrugada, antes de que salga el sol. Te da la sensación de estar súper vivo. Eres cómplice de un secreto que toda esa gente aburrida y dormida no conoce. A diferencia de ellos, tú estás alerta y consciente de existir justo aquí, en este preciso momento entre lo que sucedió y lo que sucederá.

It's funny, but you never really think much about breathing. Until it's all you ever think about.

Being afreaid proves you're alive and awake.

Wherever I went I felt like the last person awake in a room full of sleepers

For those of us called white, whiteness simply is. Whiteness becomes, for us, the unspoken, uninterrogated norm, taken for granted, much as water can be taken for granted by a fish.

As William James observed, we must reflect that, when we reach the end of our days, our life experience will equal what we have paid attention to, whether by choice or default. We are at risk, without quite fully realizing it, of living lives that are less our own than we imagine.

For how we spend the brutally limited resource of our attention will determine those lives to a degree most of us may prefer not to think about. As William James observed, we must reflect that, when we reach the end of our days, our life experience will equal what we have paid attention to, whether by choice or default. We are at risk, without quite fully realizing it, of living lives that are less our own than we imagine. The

As William James observed, we must reflect that, when we reach the end of our days, our life experience will equal what we have paid attention to, whether by choice or default.