Quotes About Consciousness

Never eat while doing something else, because you won't get the satisfaction from your food and you'll be more likely to overeat.

Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.

Fast fashion, whilst having increased the accessibility of stylish clothes for millions, has unfortunately resulted in many horrific practises, such as child labour, that exploit millions of people around the world in poorer, developing countries. This something that has to change, and we can all start by reflecting on where our clothes come from.

My brain kind of rolls pretty fast when I'm conscious. It's constantly looking for stuff to do. Like if I'm in my house and I'm hanging out, I tend to be listening to music whilst watching a film whilst sending e-mails.

White consciousness is deeply anti-black, and that's for progressives and conservatives.

Whether it's created in a lab, written by a programmer, or lands on the White House lawn as a visitor from the stars, if it acts like a human being, it is a human being.

My left leg had to be amputated from below the knee immediately to prevent gangrene from setting in. I was losing blood alarmingly. Here I was informed that the hospital was out of anaesthesia. With no choice, I instructed them to go ahead with the amputation. The limb was sawed off while I was fully conscious.

Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.

Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.

The works of previous artists have come from their own experiences or insights but haven't given the experience itself. They had set themselves up as a sort of interpreter to the layman... Our interest is in a form where you realize that the media are just perception.

While we enjoy the benefits of living in the greatest democracy in the world, we must be ever conscious of the fact that none of the achievements or freedoms enjoyed in America would be possible without the price that has been paid for by our servicemen and women.

As the price of gas goes up, people will become more conscience of how much they use.

The priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind.

I only ever became conscious of how hairy I was when I got to Year Six, the last year of primary school.

The brain is the only kind of object capable of understanding that the cosmos is even there, or why there are infinitely many prime numbers, or that apples fall because of the curvature of space-time, or that obeying its own inborn instincts can be morally wrong, or that it itself exists.

All our own present experiences are primordial. What could be more primordial than experience itself?

The creative principle is less about dogma and more about opening ourselves to the evolution of consciousness.

A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.

I admire Ai Weiwei for his art and his activism. His art is beautiful in form, and in function embodies the principles of populism and social consciousness I aspire to in my own practice.

In 'Self Comes to Mind' I pay a lot of attention to simple creatures without brains or minds, because those 'cartooned abstractions of who we are' operate on precisely the same principles that we do.

I've already become a mastodon in print - I don't see a consciousness for my kind of journalism.

I'm well aware of my privilege.

If you're White then yes, you have White privilege. It's there for the taking if you choose to use it, you know, just keeping it 100.

Normalising the term 'white privilege' does not eliminate racism, it reinforces the notion that everyone and everything around ethnic minorities is racist and makes the majority white population more conscious about their race and exacerbates feelings of difference, creating a less cohesive society.