Quotes About Consciousness

Forever, Emily Dickinson said, is composed of nows. But how do you inhabit the now you are in? How do you stop the ghosts of all the other nows from getting in? How, in short, do you live?

Sip, don't gulp.

When it comes to our minds, awareness is very often the solution itself.

That's the odd thing about depression and anxiety. It acts like an intense fear of happiness, even as you yourself consciously want that happiness more than anything.

I stared at the tweet I was about to post. It wasn't going to add anything to my life. Or anyone else's life. It was just going to lead to more checking of my phone, like Pepys with his pocket watch. I pressed delete, and felt a strange relief as I watch each letter disappear.

People are craving not just physical space but the space to be mentally free. A space from unwanted distracted thoughts that clutter our heads like pop-up advertising of the mind in an already frantic world. And that space is still there to be found. It's just that we can't rely on it. We have to consciously seek it out.

From the outside a person sees your physical form, sees that you are a unified mass of atoms and cells. Yet inside you feel like a Big Bang has happened. You feel lost, disintegrated, spread across the universe amid infinite dark space.

Camus also said, 'If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there'?

Maybe once you had known fear and love and beauty, you could never unknow them.

Do not fall for categories. Everyone is everything. Every ingredient inside a star is inside you, and every personality that ever existed competes in the theatre of your mind for the main role.

Thoreau wrote, 'It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

Always be aware of what you are doing, and why you are doing it.

The world exists in you. Your experience of the world isn't this objective unchangeable thing called "The World." No. Your experience of the world is your interaction with it, your interpretation of it. To a certain degree we all make our own worlds.

The world is real, but your world is subjective. Changing your perspective changes your planet.

Be alive. That is your supreme duty to the world.

You are more than the sum of your particles. And that is quite a sum.

Is there no way out of the mind?" Sylvia Plath

The text began to swirl and soon became indecipherable, in fast motion, as she felt herself weaken. She never knowingly let go of the #book, but there was a moment where she was no longer a person #reading it, and a consequent moment where there was no book--or library--at all.

In those moments that burst alive the present lasts for ever, and I know there are many more presents to live. I understand. I understand you can be free. I understand that the way you stop time is by stopping being ruled by it.

the way I understand my life is as a kind of Russian doll, with different versions inside other versions, each one enclosing the other, whereby the life before isn't seen from the outside but is still there.

You simply can't fall in love and not think there is something bigger ruling us. Something, you know, not quite us. Something that lives inside us, caged in us, ready to help us or fuck us over. We are mysteries to ourselves. Even science knows that.

Minds can't see what they can't handle. It's like how humans never see the second hand of a clock mid-tick.

You are the observer of your mind, not its victim

We just have to close our eyes and savour the taste of the drink in front of us and listen to the song as it plays.