Quotes About Consciousness

When we are being compassionate, we consider another's circumstance with love rather than judgement... To be compassionate is to move into the right here, right now with an open heart consciousness and a willingness to be supportive.

My left brain is doing the best job it can with the information it has to work with. I need to remember, however, that there are enormous gaps between what I know and what I think I know.

Most of us think of ourselves as thinking creatures that feel, but we are actually feeling creatures that think.

I need to remember, however, that there are enormous gaps between what I know and what I think I know. I learned that I need to be very wary of my storyteller's potential for stirring up drama and trauma.

And I must say, there was both freedom and challenge for me in recognizing that our perception of the external world, and our relationship to it, is a product of our neurological circuitry. For all those years of my life, I really had been a figment of my own imagination!

We live days and weeks and months and years with so little awareness of life. We wait for the bad things that wake us up and shock our systems. But every now and then, on the most average day, it occurs to you that this is it. This is all there is.

I don't have a nervous system, I am a nervous system...

what we believe affects how we behave—and how we behave dictates our reality.

But it would be naïve to think that this extraordinary success has drawn us ever closer to comprehending a reality of things-in-themselves

There is no spoon. I am completely spoonless over here.

Being here? With you? I've met my subconscious, and he's not that sick.

No matter where you go, there you are. [- Uriel to Harry Dresden]

You've got it backward, Harry," he said. "You are a soul. You have a body.

None of my issues have included memory loss or unconscious actions, she said. Thomas squinted back at her. If they had, how would you know it? Molly frowned. Valid point.

My mouth kept running without checking in with my brain. My heart maybe, but not my brain.

It wasn't until later that I would realize that I was babbling a chant of "Ubriacha, ubrius, ubrium," to the Peanuts theme music.

There is no spoon.

I woke up. That surprised me, in itself.

Open eyes are of little use when the mind behind them is closed." Araris

You don't exactly sleep, in situations like that. You close your eyes and stop moving, and then a lot of complicated things happen in your brain.

I lay still, hoping to fool my captor into thinking I was barely conscious and weak as a kitten. Which should be easy, since I was. I've never really had much ambition as a performer.

the mind has deep rivers of memory and sensation whose existence one never suspects.

There is nothing so immediately rewarded in American life, in the arts or anything else, as a shrill and limited consciousness.

The present passes too quickly to notice and I've never had a grip on the future, even as an idea.