Quotes About Consciousness

we were alive, together, and conscious, aware of our own mortality, but thrilled by the fact of our own ridiculous existence.

Time in prison—not just in solitary—becomes "a thick dull mallet that pounds consciousness into a coma.

I stink, therefore I think.

As James Lovelock writes, 'Mother Earth' is now an old lady in her sixties, no longer as resilient as she once was. With our conscious actions, we are now measurably shortening her lifespan.

We do not see with our eyes nor with our minds, we only see through the feelings of our Emotions."-Mark Miller

Mysteriously, as elusive as it is, this moment--where the eye is what it sees, where the heart is what it feels--this moment shows us that what is real is sacred

life is always where we are.

Consciousness is a computational goal state

Incluso fui vegetariano estricto durante un tiempo y, moralmente hablando, debería seguir siéndolo: es la única posición moral coherente con respecto a los animales. Sin embargo, aunque no soy tan malo como podría ser, tampoco soy tan bueno como debería.

It is consciousness that brings both suffering and enjoyment to the world.

On every long run that has gone right, there comes a point where thinking stops and thoughts begin.

Bad things need to be addressed, but good things do not. That is why consciousness will tend to focus on the bad.

I truly believe a novelist must arrive at an altered state of consciousness to reach that creative zone where the fingers fly & the words flow.

There are times in every life when the past acquires a particular resonance, when we grow sensitive to sounds and voices normally beyond the range of hearing. The past shades into present always and everywhere, but only rarely do we acknowledge the process; only rarely does some trigger force us to recognize ourselves as citizens of that frontier.

The ultimate language of yoga is expressed in doing yoga, a practice that transcends words as we open our lives to living more consciously through the infinite wisdom of the heart.

A poem is a place where the conditions of beyondness and withinness are made palpable, where to imagine is to feel what it is like to be. It allows us to have the life we are denied because we are too busy living. Even more paradoxically, a poem permits us to live in ourselves as if we were just out of reach of ourselves.

In a field I am the absence of field. This is always the case. Wherever I am I am what is missing.

Sometimes he did not know if he slept or just thought about sleep.

Let me be clear: I felt bad about the state of the planet, and I was willing to pay extra if it supported an actual farmer instead of the bovine gulag.

Spirituality is about seeing, waking up out of a deep sleep, remembering what

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

It has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain when awake.

If you can not grasp the consciousness-altering experience that real mastery of these disciplines proposes, of what value is your participation?

For some strange reason, no matter where I go, the place is always called "here".