Quotes About Consciousness

You'll live for as long as you live, and once you stop living, you don't have to worry about staying alive any more because you'll be dead.

You never know when you're going to die, but maybe something in you does, some cellular consciousness that's aware of the cosmic countdown and starts making plans.

My thoughts are with you all. Forever conscious of the vast, absurd universe and writing my eternal story I shall remain dead, but dreaming.

...Death, " she said, as her hand dropped away, " is how you know you were alive in the first place.

The thing with dying, well, with death really, is that there's a difference between being someone who knows they can really die at any time and someone who doesn't.

Being of sound mind I spent every cent I ever had.

Few people think about this or are aware of it. But there is nothing made by human beings that does not involve a design decision somewhere.

I want to create an atmosphere that can be consciously plumbed with seeing, like the wordless thought that comes from looking in a fire.

Design is the conscious effort to impose a meaningful order

If design is to be ecologically responsible, it must be independent of concern for the gross national product.

I cannot force a design; I do not see this process as being under my conscious control.

The one who has no control over his desires has no control over his mind.

In the desire of the One to know Himself, We exist.

The brain is not the mind. It is probably impossible to look at a map of brain activity and predict or even understand the emotions, reactions, hopes and desires of the mind.

To desire a state is to have it.

My desires sprang forth as a mighty sun - all embracing - associating in the form - vortex, to enjoy ALL consciousness

The will to originality is not the will to be peculiar and unlike anybody else; it means the desire to derive one's consciousness from its primary source.

In recognizing exactly where we have been unconscious, we become more conscious. And in seeing and feeling the ways we've gone dead, we start to revive and kindle our desire to live more expansively.

Matter feels, converses, suffers, desires, yearns and remembers.

Live contemplating the body through mindfulness. Live contemplating feelings. In this way you will be aware of and control wrong desires.

Body. Soul. Mind. Sensations: the body. Desires: the soul. Reasoning: the mind.

Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness.

Each one should realize there is nothing in (us) which denies that which (we) desire.

Making every desire come true is not difficult once you realize that the same thing is always at work - you are transforming pure awareness from one state to another.