Quotes About Consciousness

What constitutes - where are we when we sleep? What is our sense of reality at that moment? It's, you know, science now suggests to us that what has been perceived as matter for a long time is, in fact, energy.

When we shift our perception, our experience changes.

The new limitations are the human ones of perception.

The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.

To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.

We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.

I think perception is important.

The problem is that perception is reality.

I've had - I don't really know how to describe them, except moments of 'extrasensory perception' of some sort. I've also had sort of a 'white light' moment.

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

I don't want you looking at the light fixture; I want you looking at where light goes. But more than that, I'm interested in the effect of light upon you and your perceptions.

Life's all about perceptions.

So, we, as human beings, live in a very imprecise world. A world where our perceptions of reality are far more important than actual reality.

Women's sport is embedded in the mainstream consciousness now, and that is a hugely positive thing. That's not to say that our sport can't get even more popular - because I think it can - but perceptions have definitely changed for the better.

For me, performance is a holy ground. When I perform, I really step into a different state of consciousness.

Even as one and the same person is called by different names according to the different functions he performs, so also one and the same mind is called by the different names: mind, intellect, memory, and egoity, on account of the difference in the modes - and not because of any real difference.

I've always been aware of my health - when you are having to go on stage and perform, you need to be feeling good - but when I was diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, I became really, really conscious of my health.

I'm a performer and have managed to get my performing into the mainstream consciousness of the world, I guess.

Comedians sometimes forget that there's an audience. You gotta be conscious that you're performing for other human beings.

For a lot of actors, there's a sort of code of honor around playing something other than yourself, which I just don't have. I love feeling like I'm - I won't even say acting out, but performing in some deep seam of my consciousness or my family's consciousness or my past. That's really amusing to me.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Living in America, I became aware of many issues and went through a period of politicization.

I am not the perishable body, but the eternal Self.

To really be conscious of how long the journey is, be patient, push yourself, persevere, and always be working on your craft while waiting for your break. That's what I'm still working on, having done this for 20 years now.