Quotes About Consciousness

I don't take for granted that I wake up. I appreciate it when I do, those times when it still happens.

In our will, there lives something which is perpetually observing us inwardly. It is easy to look upon this inner spectator as something intended to be taken pictorially; the spiritual investigator knows it to be a reality, just as sense-perceptible objects are realities.

I've taken for granted that we have clean air to breathe in cities, relatively speaking, and most people have access to clean water. But we can't take these things for granted.

The revolution that takes place in your head, nobody will ever see that.

At the moment of death, when the seed atom in the heart is ruptured, which contains all the experience of the past life in a panoramic picture, the spirit leaves its physical body, taking with it the finer bodies.

If you are a chef, you have an incredible responsibility in this world. Don't just open a restaurant to serve food. Include the community, and make sure that you are not taking advantage of what the planet has given us.

There have been a number of us working very, very hard to bring myth and fairy tales into public consciousness, through fantasy literature and other media. I hope we're succeeding in some small way.

The question is not, 'Can they reason?' nor, 'Can they talk?' but rather, 'Can they suffer?'

A border is a border. I have to be conscious of both my borders. I will also have be conscious of my sea. It is less talked about.

I wanted to do a show about a family that is absolutely black. Because as Du Bois has shown, we do have to live a double consciousness every day in the world. We have to walk our path and walk the mainstream path, and there's never really been a show that's talked about what that's like.

I'm blessed to have a platform that allows me to speak to many at once. I recognize that I can make consciousness a tangible thing for young people.

Everything has some consciousness, and we tap into that. It is about energy at its most basic level.

Life is what we see

but there is in me something that feeds on the now of things.

The state of waking sleep, therefore, is a condition in which you unconsciously deprive yourself of the expansive vistas of sensory experience. Your sensory receptors become prematurely, but not irrevocably, dull simply because you aren't stimulating them enough.

I pull over one of the plush plastic chairs and sit down while he tries to remember what words are. Finally, he's conscious enough to see me and the crazy room. "Where am I?" he says. "In Bilbo Baggins's spaceship." He rubs the back of his neck.

I might be dead and damned for all eternity but I'm not addle-brained. I remember.

The storied self knows that self is not enough.

After all, isn't consciousness the gateway to awareness. And awareness is the seed of change.

What I focus upon becomes reality. I have the power to choose.

Unutmay?n, bugün ne kadar bencil, zalim, duyars?z olmu?san?z olun, her nefes al???n?zda bir çiçe?i mutlu etmektesiniz.

The true mystery of Okawa school was the one we all face. No mind can encompass it; consciousness recoils in panic. The idea of conspiracy is what we supply to make sense of what will never be sensible— the fiery fact of death. Extinction of life: extinction of a perfect, a beloved child: for eternity. Impossible! the soul cries out. What are they hiding?

That which you believe becomes your world.

Each memory was brought to life before me and within me. I could not avoid them. Neither could I rationalize, explain away. I could only re-experience with total cognizance, unprotected by pretense. Self delusion was impossible, truth exposed in this blinding light. Nothing as I thought it had been. Nothing as I hoped it had been. Only as it had been.