Quotes About Consciousness

The controlling Intelligence understands its own nature, and what it does, and whereon it works.

Remind yourself that it is not the future or what has passed that afflicts you, but always the present.

You will give yourself relief, if you do every act of your life as if it were the last.

When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...

The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

This Being of mine, whatever it really is, consists of a little flesh, a little breath, and the part which governs.

Be nothing. Be not the spider nor the man nor the future nor the past. Be the moment. Be nothing.

All he could do was try to focus, to put his attention on the woman right in front of him and the angle of her shoulder that meant she was about to shift her bag. To the man about to speak to his friend. To the little girl who looked a lot like Kate—no, push that away, no time now to think about Kate—reaching up for her mother's hand. When

It's like the parable about a man who dreamed he was a butterfly. When he woke, he couldn't be sure that he wasn't a butterfly dreaming he was a man. And

He hated clocks that ticked; every click a moment gone. Couldn't imagine sleeping in a room with one, drifting into unconsciousness to the sound of life slipping away.

If I were dead, I wouldn't be sad, and I wouldn't be glad, because I wouldn't be.

Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.

the comic inadequacy of consciousness trying to make terms with the rest of everything that is.

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.

The future cannot be determined. I can only be experienced as it is occurring. Life doesn't know what it will be until it notices what it has become.

What goes on inside isn't ever the same as what goes on outside.

If people fainted from too much thinking I'd scarcely ever be conscious," Tabitha began at once. "I think and think all the time, and I've never fainted – not once." She looked over at Barney enviously. "Why do the best things always happen to other people and not to a promising writer?

I am not just what I remember. I am also what I dream.

I like to know what I'm celebrating before I put on a party hat.

No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.

The crazy part of my mind is like a mischievous pet I have to keep watch over or it might behave badly while I'm not paying attention.

but also seems to include a heightened awareness in people everywhere

Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful