Quotes About Consciousness

Unfortunately, possession brings the conviction that one is right. Just as the Russians are convinced that the Western world is the destructive element, in the same way if the animus catches us, we can be sure that things are like that. The most important thing is to know this. Like most of my brothers and sisters, when I let myself be possessed by the animus, I do not realize; I am convinced that is my opinion and not my animus.

The little open door of each individual's inferior function is what contributes to the sum of collective evil in the world.

Numbers, furthermore as archetypal structural constants of the collective unconscious, possess a dynamic, active aspect which is especially important to keep in mind. It is not what we can do with numbers but what they do to our consciousness that is essential.

Number ... should not be understood solely as a construction of consciousness, but also as an archetype and thus as a constituent of nature both without and within.

This anthology is a testament to American Indian consciousness continuing to circulate, regardless of past or present genocidal attempts, whether cerebral, endemic, systematic, or otherwise.

Scars are especially useful as historical markers when one's own memory and consciousness cannot be trusted.

Health and disease don't just happen to us. They are active processes issuing from inner harmony or disharmony, profoundly affected by our states of consciousness, our ability or inability to flow with experience. This recognition carries with it implicit responsibility and opportunity.

In 1968, I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry, and unhappy like we do.

Becoming a vegan is a sure way of completely avoiding participation in the abuse of farmed animals. Vegans are a living demonstration of the fact that we do not need to exploit animals for food.

I think animals should be free. There's so much other food out there that doesn't have to involve you in that cycle of pain and death.

A human can be healthy without killing animals for food.

The quest for slowness, which begins as a simple rebellion against the impoverishment of taste in our lives, makes it possible to rediscover taste.

What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for worms.

When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice.

We manage to swallow flesh, only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing we do.

A significant part of the pleasure of eating is in one's accurate consciousness of the lives and the world from which food comes.

I do not knowingly kill any living thing - including insects or rodents - and I thank my food for sustaining me.

I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.

I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals.

As a consequence while we had a roof over our heads, food on the table, and clothes to wear to school we were constantly conscious of being of modest means.

I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.

Enlightenment is the food that eats you.

I plan to write more songs of my own, especially on behalf of the animals we needlessly raise for food, at their great expense, and at great expense to our precious, deteriorating planet.

I really like the concept of, like, slowing down and savoring your food, enjoying it.