Quotes About Consciousness

We live to avoid death, we exist to avoid unexistence

As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences.

Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that there is no death.

Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows any sign of doubt of its finality.

I've seen my own death in dreams like this and it's helped me appreciate life more. I've also seen my own life in dreams and it's helped me appreciate death more.

Death is simply a break in our linear stream of consciousness.

No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.

The real you is timeless and beyond life and death.

If the heart stops for more than two minutes, you have massive brain death. There are only two minutes between our conscious world and zero. That's how fragile our consciousness is.

Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior.

We don't know what kind of people we truly are until the moment before our deaths. As death comes to embrace you, you will realize what you are. That's what death is, don't you think?

Attention leads to immortality. Carelessness leads to death. Those who pay attention will not die, while the careless are as good as dead already.

When I first saw the light of day on this planet, it seemed as if I had been rudely awakened from a death-like sleep.

Death is something we shouldn't fear because, while we are, death isn't, and when death is, we aren't.

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Thoughtfulness is the way to deathlessness, thoughtlessness the way to death. The thoughtful do not die: the thoughtless are as if dead already.

I believe that when death closes our eyes we shall awaken to a light, of which our sunlight is but the shadow.

There is no birth, there is no death; there is no coming, there is no going; there is no same, there is no different; there is no permanent self, there is no annihilation. We only think there is.

I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit.

Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body.

Begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it were the only one we had.

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

It's not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather our concern must be to live while we're alive.

Let's learn to live! Then there is no death, save the transition, when desired. Many live who have never died as yet.