Quotes About Consciousness

If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't.

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.

I've been a vegetarian for years and years. I'm not judgemental about others who aren't, I just feel I cannot eat or wear living creatures.

A human can be healthy without killing animals for food. Therefore if he eats meat he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.

The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.

Man is a being with free will; therefore, each man is potentially good or evil, and it's up to him and only him (through his reasoning mind) to decide which he wants to be.

You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.

I think, therefore I am. I'm pink, therefore I'm spam.

A drunk mans words are a sober mans thoughts.

One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.

Without realizing it, I fought to keep my two worlds separated. Without ever knowing why, I made sure, whenever possible that nothing passed between the compartmentalization I had created between the day child and the night child. p26

At some level of consciousness, all lovers know this. If you cease to care for the person you love, you will give up a vital piece of your identity. You will become someone else. You will look back on your past love with tenderness or anger or some other combination of feelings, but you will not be able to recapture the same emotions you once felt.

Se facea ca ma faceam ca traiesc, Intr-o vale adanca, de somn intretaiata. Trezindu-ma, doar atat imi amintesc. Ochiul continua sa mi se bata.

What you're doing is not important. What is really important is the state of mind from which you do it. Performance

Time is an illusion. Time only exists when we think about the past and the future. Time doesn't exist in the present here and now

I came to believe in the idea of parallel realities. I think that the reality we see now is a certain frequency, and that we're all on the same frequency, so we're visible to each other, but that it's possible to change frequencies. To enter a different reality. And I think that there are hundreds of these realities.

Then I woke up and the reality of the dream was stronger than the reality of the day.

It was a big base of my performance art ... the idea of here and now ... not something that's happening in the past or the future. It's always happening. It's always now.... Only what matters is the present.

When you get to my age of course you know you have to confront death. I want to die without anger, without fear and consciously, and these three things are not easy.

Quien solo ve en el mar su superficie, se está perdiendo los secretos y las posibilidades que encierran sus profundidades. Quien solo ve el mundo de lo material, de lo que tiene forma, se pierde el fondo, el mundo de los espiritual y que encierra en sí todas las infinitas formas.

Por alguna razón tenemos que darnos cuenta —hemisferio cerebral izquierdo— de lo que no nos estamos dando cuenta —hemisferio cerebral derecho— para así expandir nuestra consciencia y ser realmente libres.

pensamiento es un simple instrumento cuyo alcance es muy limitado, sobre todo por el gran condicionamiento que ha sufrido la mente a lo largo de la vida. Para nosotros, pensar es actuar para resolver. Sin embargo, las actuaciones más efectivas no suelen venir del proceso de pensar, sino de algo mucho más sutil y profundo. A eso es a lo que llamamos conciencia o capacidad de darse cuenta no solo de lo que se piensa, sino sobre todo de lo que se es.

Un sentimiento sería, por consiguiente, una valoración consciente de si una determinada situación nos está invitando a acercarnos o a alejarnos.

Los muros de la mente son más sólidos que los muros de piedra, ya que tienen la capacidad de no permitirnos ni siquiera plantearnos que puede existir la posibilidad de otra realidad distinta a la que experimentamos.