Quotes About Consciousness

I am breathing. In dreams, we never bother to breathe.

I still don't know if this is a good quality or a bad one, to be able to be in the moment and then step out of it.

I have learned how to observe, far better than most people observe. I am not blinded by the past or motivated by the future. I focus on the present, because that is where I am destined to live.

Do you really exist? I blurt out. Not at all, he says with a smile, I've known that since I was four.

My mind was getting away from reality again, and I reluctantly drew it back in. There is no getting away from reality.

There are so many minutes and hours and days we spend taking life for granted, not feeling it so much as going along with it. But then there are moments like this, when the aliveness of life is crystalline, palpable, undeniable. It is the ultimate buoy against drowning. It is the ever-saving grace.

No past. No future. Just present. Give it a chance.

We wish we could offer you a creation myth, an exact reason why you are the way you are, why when you read this sentence, you will know it's about you.

Why do you want to put more smoke inside of you?

She looked like she was waking up in a strange place—only she knew she hadn't gone to sleep yet, and that this was actually life.

If you think about it hard enough, if you trace potential reverberations long enough, every step can be a false step, any move can lead to an unintended consequence. Who am I ignoring that I shouldn't be ignoring? What am I not saying that I should be saying? What won't I notice that she would absolutely notice? While I'm out in the public hallways, what private languages am I not hearing?

Thoughts can follow you anywhere.

We lost track of time because we felt like time had lost track of us.

I know I am lying to myself, but I also choose to believe it.

Waking is hard, and waking is glorious. We watch as you stir, then as you stumble out of your beds. We know that gratitude is the last thing on your mind. But you should be grateful.

This is how it feels to hold a pencil in her hand. This is how it feels to fill her lungs with air. This is how it feels to press her back against the chair. This is how it feels to touch her ear. This is what the world sounds like to her. This is what she hears every day.

For our afternoon, I've decided to attempt to give Rhiannon the satisfaction of being fully alone. Not the lethargy of lying on the couch or the dull monotony of drifting off in math class. Not the midnight wandering in a sleeping house or the pain of being left in a room after the door has been slammed shut. This alone is not a variation of any of those. This alone is its own being. Feeling the body, but not using it to sidetrack the mind. Moving with purpose, but not in a rush.

I have no idea what time it is, what day it is. I have nothing but now. Nothing but here. And that is more than enough.

Focused on nothing, open to everything- it's a state I fall into, where all my senses swap. My voice is blind, my hearing is mute, my sight is deaf. Art is science, mathematics is conversation, and music is something that bleeds. I am so far away that I'm inside myself. I barely notice colors unless I taste them. Not the yellows or the greens. I taste the deeper blues. The darker reds.

We become, for a few short seconds, our own time zone.

even the most zealous vegans can weed their garden and wipe out untold millions of germs with disinfectants ("green" ones, of course) without suffering a single pang of guilt.

Within your own self is a treasury, an ocean of pure bliss, consciousness, intelligence, creativity, love, happiness, energy, and peace… within every human being. Experience that and you will begin to know yourself, which is unbounded, eternal totality

That state of simplest form of awareness alone, is worthy of seeing, hearing, contemplating and realizing.

He whose happiness is within, whose contentment is within, whose light is all within, that yogi, being one with Brahman, attains eternal freedom in divine consciousness. BHAGAVAD-GITA