Quotes About Consciousness

I dislike the word 'self-help.' Self-awareness, yes, but not self-help.

The world in general has meaning, deep meaning at times. This cannot be dismissed as a delusion, an artifact of chemicals.

If everything is disposable or recyclable, how does that make us feel about ourselves and each other?

It is what makes us human, what distinguishes us from other animals. We can be aware of being aware.

You only have one thing in your mind, and that is your mind; once that's gone, your whole reality is distorted.

We do violence to the consciousness of a past age when we divide what was indivisible to it: the one sacred truth of the Christian creed.

I've had many uncanny experiences. I think it's hard to be alive and not have them. But I don't know if I can decide what that means or what they are.

Happiness is found by deeply experiencing the exact moment we are in.

For me, it's a matter of balance. Living inside your head and experiencing real things - both are important.

I was very conscious of the world being this very crazed place that demanded explanation. I didn't see a whole lot of people who looked like me doing it on television.

I'm not against people buying clothes; I think clothes are wonderful, and I'm very materialistic myself - but there's a way of finding a compromise. I just think we can buy less and pay more, to make sure people aren't being exploited.

In my other books, things do happen, but they are kind of bookends to the real action, which for me was an exploration of consciousness. Not that I don't get into the consciousness of the people in 'The Surrendered,' but you could say there's not as much anxiety about it.

Can our mind evolve to be something other than an extension of our animal needs?

The idea is that that there is no such thing as an external enemy.

At this point, I wouldn't be able to digest meat, and I don't like eating things with faces.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

I want to have all of my faculties.

Since I started acting, I've always been aware of the sort of 'beastly entity' that is America and Hollywood, and semi-consciously, I devised a kind of route in - I'd seen a lot of people try and fail.

Know what to do if you feel faint or dizzy, especially if you might fall and hit your head.

Death is a false fear. When it is here, you won't be. When it's not, you are here.

The academic Left has a long history of taking the idea of 'false consciousness' seriously.

I was conscious of my father's fame from the time I was 6.

I'm often drawn in by a description of a woman thinking something familiar that's never been articulated before, as in Diane Cook's 'Somebody's Baby' or Nina Berberova's 'The Tattered Cloak.'

I pour my blood, sweat, and tears into a movie. What I always look for is a message and a social consciousness: a relevance to what's happening in our world.