Quotes About Consciousness

I don't need to worry about that, that's always there on a slow simmer. The muscle I have to work on is being more present.

The often-surprising truth for many people is that we all integrate faith into our work, but most of the time we're completely unaware of what faith underlies our attitudes and responses to our work.

When the mind is silent and quiet, then inner energies wake up and work miracles on your behalf without any conscious effort on your part.

I try not to make social consciousness a massive part of my music or comedy because I prefer to be an entertainer first and foremost, then do actual grassroots work when I can.

It takes close attention to see what is happening in front of you. It takes work, pious effort, to see what you are looking at.

I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence.

Whatever you do, whatever you're working with, whether it's manual work or talking to people or buying or selling, every little thing encompasses the power and simplicity of presence.

Work to recognize the primary importance of the present moment. A good little pointer toward that is to ask yourself, "What is my relationship with the present moment? How am I relating to it?"

There can be associations - enlightened businesses, for example - that do not work on the basis of us against them or wanting profit as the main motivating force behind what they do.

It is part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees.

I am a teacher because teaching allows me to observe the universe at work, that moment when wakefulness suddenly occurs.

History is never invisible, finally, though some people seem to work very hard to be willfully blind.

I just choose the scripts I want to work on. I don't know why. It's not something conscious or that I'm doing on purpose.

When we work from the Soul consciousness, we can shape our own destiny.

Acting isn't something that I think about very consciously, somehow that just doesn't work for me. I just kind of feel my way into it.

Much of my work has been done in first person.

Flashy characters are more entertaining to people because you get it. You don't have to work to get someone who says what they mean and says what they think. They're out there. It's harder to play a quiet character because everything happens in their stream of consciousness.

You and I are streaming data engines.

There is a frustration too, that at moments when there's not a coup, when there are not people in the streets, that the country disappears from people's consciousness.

You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.

We need a revolution in consciousness to overturn the system we live in, to strengthen our democracy, to find courage and give hope to our children.

Some people have knees, ankles. It's always been my back. That's been one thing I've always had to be conscious about strengthening and being in rehab. Pretty much I've always rehabbed it.

I think people are curious at some level, and they want to alter their current state of being. I mean, that could be from curiosity, that could be from stress, that can be from some other sort of ailments or problem that they are experiencing or could just be from boredom, but humans have always attempted to alter their consciousness.

We're the only species that can look into the future and know that we're going to die one day, and it causes all sorts of cognitive stress on your system.