Quotes About Consciousness

Being aware of yourself and choosing your behavior is the first step towards powerful life change. This is how we become better people. This is how we become better parents.

Prove to me that you are not a figment of my imagination. Am I a computer simulation? Does the door swing both ways? How can something come from nothing? How do you know a line is straight? If animals wanted to be eaten, would it be okay? If time stopped then stared again, would we know about it? What happens when you get scared half to death twice? What is creationism? What is ethical?

Reality is not necessarily my friend—then again, neither are dreams—but this moment, this reality, is beautiful.

What was stored in memory was distinct from what was deliberately remembered

We write books in a fixed moment in time, in a specific phase of our consciousness and development. That is why reading words written years ago feels alienating. You are no longer the person whose existence depended on the production of those words.

There is no pleasure subtler than the sensation of being a good workman; and in work there is the sense of consanguinity-unconscious as a rule but sometimes conscious.

That consciousness of quality, and the need to demand it can galvanize your energies, not just in your work, but in a rigorous exercise of mind and heart in every aspect of your life.

The point is to create a system where individuals don't work simply for money or personal gain but to support the planet and its inhabitants in entering the next stage of evolutionary progression.

I've always tried to be conscious of how I represent women in my work. They don't have to be good or strong women, but they have to be complex.

Every decision you make - every decision that you make every second - is not a decision about what to do, it is a decision about who you are. Every act is an act of self-definition.

The mind and the soul must work together if you are to experience true bliss. Try not to spend too much time exclusively in your mind. It is a magnificent tool, but it has a limited perspective.

The more we witness our emotional reactions and understand how they work, the easier it is to refrain.

Life's work is to wake up, to let the things that enter your life wake you up rather than put you to sleep.

If you work with your mind, that will alleviate all the suffering that seems to come from the outside.

Artists should be self-aware of their work and their potential places in people's lives and make their decisions accordingly.

Work with your mind; don't let your mind work over you.

It's only when all the dust is completely gone from the mirror, and there is only mirror, no dust, that we're really enlightened. So that's a lot of work.

Basically, for me the psychedelic experience was the path to revelation. It actually worked on somebody who thought nothing would work.

We till shadowed days are done, We must weep and sing Duty's conscious wrong, The Devil in the clock

You can make your life into a grand ever-evolving work of art. The key is your thoughts, the wonderous invisible part of you that is your spiritual soul.

Beware all enterprises that require new clothes.

Always live in active consciousness

Living in active consciousness is being in the "here and now

If you are not living in active consciousness, you will always be lost