Quotes About Consciousness

Mostly we run around doing. Are you able to come to a stop in your life, even for one moment? Could it be this moment? What would happen if you did?

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts…. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake. How could I have looked him in the face?

You have to believe in gods to see them.

What we must do is start viewing every cow, pig, chicken, monkey, rabbit, mouse, and pigeon as our family members.

In my family we've always been into ethical stuff and recycling.

You ask 'Are you a man or a demon?' Neither, I say. I have woken up, and the rest of you are sleeping, and that is the only difference between us.

'Drugs' and psychedelics are not two members of a family, they are antithetically opposed to each other. The pro-psychedelic position is an anti-drug position.

William Shakespeare, Hamlet

What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real.

Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time.

As we practice, we begin to know the difference between our fantasy and reality.

The problem with fantasy is the greatest benefit of fantasy: it prevents us from living in the present moment.

All you ever were was a little bit of the universe, thinking to itself. Very specific; this bit, here, right now. All the rest was fantasy.

In the space between wake and sleep, where the real world juxtaposes with the imagination, that's where I live.

We must be careful what we imagine, fear, or hope for. The echoes of our thought live on in eternity.

I remember my father saying that you're about to awaken when you dream that you're dreaming.

My father said he did have the mathematics of mind physics, or the physics of consciousness.

I don't fear for a physical death, but when my conscience dies, that is a real death

I have absolutely no fear of death. From my near-death research and my personal experiences, death is, in my judgment, simply a transition into another kind of reality.

The fear is simply because you are not living with life, You are living in your mind.

Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.

The root of fear is the feeling of not being what you are.

Only your mind can produce fear.

Can you look at a situation without naming it? Naming it, making it a word, causes fear.