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Quotes About Consciousness

Who is this? This is me. Who am I? What am I? What am I? What am I? What am I?
~ Hideaki Anno
He is tired of trying to wake up different. . . He is what the mirror makes, when it assembles him each day. . . Unless you have a better idea?
~ Hilary Mantel
Which of these Thomases saw the blow coming? There are moments when a memory moves right through you.
~ Hilary Mantel
He understands honor but does not boast of his own. . . He has studied the world without despising it. He understands the world without rejecting it. He has no illusions but he has hopes. He does not sleepwalk through his life. His eyes are open, and his ears for sounds others miss.
~ Hilary Mantel
a head is heavier than you expect
~ Hilary Mantel
The only things he cannot remember are the things he never knew. His
~ Hilary Mantel
Even when our eyes are closed, there's a whole world that exists outside ourselves and our dreams.
~ Hiromu Arakawa
The dreaming attention-the second attention that is like a sewage or diarrhea can move to other people
~ Unknown
We want everything, we want to be everything. We want to experience all the joys of good fortune and the full depths of suffering. We want the excitement of action and the calm of observation. We want the silence of the desert as well as the noise of the forum. Simultaneously we want to be the hermit´s thought and the voice of the people; we want to be both melody and harmony. Simultaneously! How could this be possible?
~ Hjalmar Söderberg
Hon var inte vaken då hon gifte sig med den människan, hon gjorde det i sömnen. I drömmen ske ju ofta de besynnerligaste saker, och de förefalla fullkomligt naturliga och vanliga - i drömmen. Men då man vaknar och erinrar sig vad man har drömt, häpnar man och gapskrattar eller ryser. Nu har hon vaknat!
~ Hjalmar Söderberg
I am not sure I sleep, but I do dream.
~ Holly Black
I hope to be able to decide for myself - when we turn, is there something shoved inside of us or is it that something inside of us has been released?
~ Holly Black
Everybody dies alone, Jameson said, and kept going. "Not everybody wakes up right after.
~ Holly Black
because no matter how I denied it, some part of me knew what would choose." -Jude Duarte
~ Holly Black
While seeking out the dead, I see nothing but the living.
~ Honore de Balzac
A man like you is a god, not just a machine covered with skin, but a theater where fine feelings sprout and grow-and feelings are all that matters, as far as I'm concerned. Is a feeling anything but an entire world poured into a thought?
~ Honore de Balzac
I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We're tired of drudging and sleeping and dying. We're tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We're tired of always deferring hope till the next generation.
~ Unknown
Future Perfect Where you were before you were born, and where you are when you're not anymore might be very close. Might be the same place, though neither is as slippery as being here but imagining where you will have been- that point where things land, are finished, over, and gone but not yet.
~ Unknown
Red Bird in Snow You can choose to stop short - or have it not matter not weigh the brightness, not hold very still and be known to yourself again. A thing fills with exactly the radiance you accord it.
~ Unknown
The violence of her thoughts startled her and woke her up. She
~ Liane Moriarty
It's called guided psychedelic therapy," said Masha. "As your ego dissolves you will access a higher level of consciousness. A curtain will be drawn back and you will see the world in a way you've never seen it before.
~ Liane Moriarty
He lived in the moment, as you were meant to do. He practised mindfulness. No yesterday. No tomorrow. Just now.
~ Liane Moriarty
Clementine learned to feel bad about her white middle-class privilege long before it became fashionable.
~ Liane Moriarty
As man imagines himself to be, so shall he be, and he is that which he imagines." So said Paracelsus in the fifteenth century.
~ Liane Moriarty