Quotes About Consciousness

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

The present and the past coexist, but the past shouldn't be in flashback.

When your higher self is present, it always promotes peace.

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

It just is nothing foreign to consciousness at all that could present itself to consciousness through the mediation of phenomena different from the liking itself; to like is intrinsically to be conscious.

We think we're living in the present, but we're really living in the past.

Remember the past, live the present, think a little less about the future.

Be present and in the moment.

The mind is always present. You just don't see it.

We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Live in the present moment. The past and future are nonexistent. Only the present can be grasped or, better, embraced.

My focus is to try to appreciate the present moment more and more and more.

The present moment is changing so fast that we often do not notice its existence at all. Every moment of mind is like a series of pictures passing through a projector. Some of the pictures come from sense impressions. Others come from memories of past experiences or from fantasies of the future.

I try to just stay in the present moment as much as possible.

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

We have to get back to the beauty of just being alive in this present moment.

I don't like to look into the future. I just want to stay in the present moment.

It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and acquired historical education - aesthetic consciousness and historical consciousness - presented alienated forms of our true historical being.

On a daily basis, I think it's really important to be conscious of gender-based discrimination - which presents in sometimes more, but often less, obvious forms - and do everything possible to defeat that discrimination.

In its entirety, probably, it follows us at every instant; all that we have felt, thought and willed from our earliest infancy is there, leaning over the present which is about to join it, pressing against the portals of consciousness that would fain leave it outside.

All writing is presumption, of course, since no one knows what it is like to be another human being.

We pretend that the brain is binary, like a computer. But it's not. It's completely holographic.