Quotes About Consciousness

I totally think we have a future on the planet. I just think that we have to get away from Western thinking, which is very much founded on dualisms.

On the stage it is always now; the personages are standing on that razor-edge, between the past and the future, which is the essential character of conscious being.

As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did we come from, what happens next?' The ability to remember the past helps us plan the future.

The apocalypse is the millennium, and the psychedelics move you into the future.

The false self lives mainly through memory and anticipation. Past and future are its main preoccupation.

The present is what slips by us while we're pondering the past and worrying about the future.

I don't want to lean back into the past, or forward into the future. I don't want to wish the present moment away.

The future is an imagined Now, a projection of the mind.

Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from outside, is available, we shall, in an emotional sense, acquire an additional dimension.

Past and future are two aspects of the same coin. The name of the coin is mind.

One seemed simply to be here, less an accumulation of moments than a single arrangement continuously gifted from some inaccessible future.

Be mindful of intention. Intention is the seed that creates our future.

Live. And live well. Breathe. Breathe in and breathe deeply. Be present. Do not be past. Do not be future. Be now.

I really don't look at my past and I really don't look too much to the future because I find that's sort of redundant. I really live right in the present. I live right in the now.

If a man carefully examines his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead.

We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.

Future generations will know there's nothing mystical about wetware because by 2100, Moore's law will have given us tiny quantum computers powerful enough to upload a human soul.

Your goal is not to battle with the mind, but to witness the mind.

I believe in wishes and in a person's ability to make a wish come true, I really do. And a wish is more than a wish.. it's a goal that your conscience and subconscience can help make reality.

The state of self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been.

The ultimate goal of yoga is to always observe things accurately, and therefore never act in a way that will make us regret our actions later.

There is no higher or lower goal. There is only one goal, Self-Realization.

The goal is to be the observer of your thoughts and not let your thoughts control you.

Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.