Quotes About Consciousness

Devotion begins at home, inside your own awareness.

Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!

The mind of the writer does indeed do something before it dies, and so does its owner, but I would be hard put to call it living.

'Fruitvale' set the bar for what I wanted to do with my career, which was to make films that had consciousness and messaging in an entertaining package. Once I hit that mark, I never wanted to go back.

There are a lot of irritating aspects about large supermarkets for the wannabe eco-warrior, but the one that gets most of us hottest under the collar is packaging.

In the midst of observing the world and coming to consciousness, I was becoming a writer, and what I wanted to put on the page were the stories of people who looked like me.

I think people sleepwalk through their lives, and for me, I wanted to embrace everything. And that meant the agonizing pain and the transcendence, and you can't have one without the other.

For a sensation to be felt as pain is for it to be pain.

It pains me to see the gap that exists in the public's consciousness - religious and secular - between the notion of Israel as a Jewish state and as a democratic state.

My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.

We make decisions every day about what we're going to eat. And some people want to buy Nike shoes - two pairs, and other people want to eat Bronx grapes and nourish themselves. I pay a little extra, but this is what I want to do.

Now I'm on television, I'm far more conscious of my skin than I used to be - I would often leave the theatre with layers of pancake make-up still on my face, but on a medium such as TV, I have to be more fastidious.

I'm still living at least five parallel lives, honestly! I wonder about it. I have no idea how that happens.

I know that you are part of me and I am part of you because we are all aspects of the same infinite consciousness that we call God and Creation.

Consciousness, rather than being something that we have, is something we participate in.

We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.

Evil is important for us to look at, in my opinion, only insofar as it makes us look at our own actions and make us wonder, 'Am I participating in some kind of human evil that I really should stop doing?'

I believe that everyone has to construct a mental model of what they are and where they came from and why they are as they are, and the word soul in each person is the name for that particular mish-mash of those fully formed ideas of one's nature.

It is not sex by itself that interests me, but its particular role in American consciousness, and in my own life.

I probably don't look healthy, but I have never got to the stage where I thought I was going to pass out.

For me, consciousness is the most interesting unsolved problem of science, and, in fact, we may never know what it is about a particular arrangement of neurons that gives rise to consciousness. Our consciousness, like the air we breathe or like the passage of time, is central to our existence as intelligent beings.

Cosmic energy enters the body through the medulla and then passes to the cerebrum, in which it is stored or concentrated.

I think because people are passing - people that we are aware of are passing at - I don't say a great pace, but it seems like people are dropping, and I think it's just making - there's a consciousness and there's sensitivity to it.