Quotes About Consciousness

A ghost is someone who hasn't made it - in other words, who died, and they don't know they're dead. So they keep walking around and thinking that you're inhabiting their - let's say, their domain. So they're aggravated with you.

I don't believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn't say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It's an ongoing process.

I don't think men realize that when a woman walks out every single day, there's an unconscious way we cater to making some man comfortable. That's our experience.

No matter how loud the stadium is, once you're on that field and that offense walks up to the line, it's silent. You can only hear the guys on the field. It's amazing how much concentration you can have when it's required and how powerful your mind is to give it to you.

Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall - that of our consciousness - between the world and ourselves.

Humans believe so many lies because we aren't aware. We ignore the truth or we just don't see the truth. When we are educated, we accumulate a lot of knowledge, and all that knowledge is just like a wall of fog that doesn't allow us to perceive the truth, what really is.

I am not the born; how can there be either birth or death for me?

We must assimilate the thought that life between death and a new birth is so constituted that everything we do awakens an echo in the environment.

'Westworld' is bizarre. I don't know what to think of 'Westworld.'

I think that unlearning race for black people is more along the lines of seriously saying blackness isn't real, race isn't real.

I think we are blind. Blind people who can see, but do not see.

I've been blind in my mind since the age of three.

I want people to realize that they aren't their bodies. They are something more than their bodies.

There is no such thing as a disembodied mind. The mind is implanted in the brain, and the brain is implanted in the body.

It's amazing what your brain can do when all your senses are heightened.

At times I think and at times I am.

We see things as we are, not as they are.

The modern girl is less concerned with everything being a brand name.

I always live in the present. Every night, my mother asks me what I want for breakfast the next morning, and I say that I can only tell her that when I wake up the next day.

What's the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?

As people, no matter what we are doing, your whole body is living and breathing.

I've had some really wonderful opportunities in my career, 'Band of Brothers' being one of them. That's material that can really make a difference, but I don't think of that going into it - at least not consciously.

Killing a being just to satiate your taste buds is the most criminal act ever.

A lot of us have done bullying and didn't even realize we did it.