Quotes About Consciousness

It is possible to experience an awakening in this life through realising just how precious each moment, each mental process, and each breath truly is.

To a mind that is still, the entire universe surrenders.

I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?

Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?

Life is rarely about what happened; it's mostly about what we think happened.

What makes them even more astonishing is that there is compelling evidence that the only time quanta ever manifest as particles is when we are looking at them.

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

This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.

Dream either keeps you awake, or wouldn't let you wake

All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.

Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.

Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts. it is something celestial and divine.

An indefinite longing, that she had been only vaguely conscious of at times before, became now a recognizable wish. It was so absurd, so embarrassing a desire, that Therese thrust it from her mind.

The word is my fourth dimension.

What I'm writing to you is not for reading— it's for being.

I am obscure to myself. I let myself happen. I unfold only in the now. I am rudely alive.

Never again shall I understand anything I say. Since how could I speak without the word lying for me? How could I speak except timidly like this: life just is for me. Life just is for me, and I don't understand what I'm saying. And so I adore it.

It is curious that I can't say who I am. That is to say, I know it all too well, but I can't say it.

But the most important word in the language has but two letters: is. Is. I am at its core. I still am. I am at the living and soft centre. Still. It sparkles and is elastic.

Clarice Lispector

When I surprise myself at the mirror I am not frightened because I think I am ugly or beautiful. It is because I discover I am of a different nature. After not having seen myself for a while I almost forget I am human, I forget my past and I am as free from end and awareness as something merely alive. I am also surprised, eyes open pale at the mirror, that there are so many things in me besides what I know, so many things always silent.

Se não tivesse sido eu, eu não saberia, e tendo sido eu, eu soube.

Vivimos exclusivamente en el presente pues siempre y eternamente es el día de hoy -y el día de mañana será un hoy, la eternidad es el estado de las cosas en este momento.

Last night — it's hard to explain to you — last night I dreamed that I was dreaming. Could it be like that after death? the dream of a dream of a dream of a dream.