Quotes About Consciousness

What would it be like as an adult to open my eyes with a feeling of even mild anticipation?

to be awake is to be hauled back into a pained consciousness?

We contain more than our understanding allows us, at a given moment, to understand.

Herbs can't fix broken bones, Sam said. He was now standing beside Evra. They sure can't, The stranger agreed, but they can elevate you to planes of consciousness where worldly concerns like broken bones are nothing but minor blips on the cosmic map. He paused and stroked his beard. Of course, they burn out your brain cells, too...

anybody who started hunting for evidence of insanity in himself would certainly find plenty ? Dashiell Hammett, The Dain Curse, ch 20

Every time my brain parks the car neatly in the driveway, my mouth drives through the back of the garage.

ALL THAT HAPPENS MUST BE KNOWN.

He remained, weeks after awakening, in that period of early-morning consciousness that allows easy re-entry to dreaming. His limbs still tingled with the residue of sleep, and most days he wanted badly to allow it to overtake him again.

We have no choice. We need the communion of souls and only here are they awake.

Don't flatter yourself to think this is your doing. Your problem is that you think things have happened for the first time to you, and that you're the fulcrum from which all people and the current world pivot.

I live because I do not exist.

Mis ojos vieron lo que vieron y mis oídos oyeron mi respiración y los sonidos que se sobreponían a ella.

But if the customer knows that five dollars is the actual price that cup of coffee should be—the correct price to ensure that everyone involved in bringing that cup of coffee into existence is being treated humanely and given a chance to live with dignity—would that customer balk or step up?

There is nothing wrong with making mistakes, but one should always make new ones. Repeating mistakes is a hallmark of dim consciousness.

Reacting is automatic, but thinking is not.

There is no reason to ever have the same thought twice, unless you like having that thought.

Merely having thoughts is one thing. Consciously feeding them is quite another. You are powerful all the time, by way of your attention and intention. The question is, Toward what are you pointing that power?

The world itself is never overwhelmed or confused—only we are, due to how we are engaged with it. An

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Getting things done, and feeling good about it, means being willing to recognize, acknowledge, and appropriately manage all the things that have your consciousness engaged. Mastering the art of stress-free productivity requires it.

More often than not, it seems that people are having thoughts, though not really thinking about what they're thinking about—at least not in an effective way that resolves, advances, or manages the content.

You can fool everyone else, but you can't fool your own mind.

Complete the projects you begin, fulfill the commitments you have made, live up to your promises—then both your subconscious and conscious selves can have success, which leads to a feeling of fulfillment, worthiness and oneness.

The biggest issue for digitally oriented people is that the ease of capturing and storing has generated a write-only syndrome: all they're doing is capturing information—not actually accessing and using it intelligently. Some consciousness needs to be applied to keep one's potentially huge digital library functional