Quotes About Consciousness

Energy is what I believe all of us are. We're just conscious awareness dancing for itself for no other reason but to stay amused.

I used to be a guy who was experiencing the Universe, but now I feel like the Universe experiencing a guy

And I wondered, who is it that's aware that I'm thinking? And suddenly I was thrown into this amazing feeling of freedom. I was no longer a fragment of the universe, I was the universe." ~Jim Carrey

That, I realized, is the great beauty of dreams: the devil may inevitably find a way to jerk you off, but you can always wake up before he makes you cum.

Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice.

We set this house on fire forgetting that we live within.

What has prepared Heather for her life in the Burrow? Sleep, being hit over the head once in sixth grade and losing consciousness for a minute, waking up to find out someone had pushed her off the swings. A life made of air

Unpleasant facts don't go away simply because we stop paying conscious attention to them.

A growing body of research suggests that as little as 5 percent of our behaviors are consciously self-directed. We are creatures of habit and as much as 95 percent of what we do occurs automatically or in reaction to a demand or an anxiety.

The quickest way to experiencing the peace inside, is to learn to recognize when I am not at peace.

Drugs are a bet with the mind

Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs.

We, here in Western civilization, have failed to master the concept of living in the moment. We spend so much time worrying about yesterday or planning tomorrow that we fail to live today.

It was like being asleep when you were awake and awake when you were asleep. I'd pinch myself, figuratively speaking - I had to keep pinching myself. Then I'd wake up kind of in reverse; I'd go back to the nightmare I had to live in. And everything would be clear and reasonable.

I don't trust my mind for everyday thinking, but I am convinced that it has one very great function, which is to eventually make me aware of astounding things.

The continuum of infinite, immortal Life is occasionally interrupted by a brief stroll into a body of highly limiting thought. Jim Young, Author of 'Aware in a World Asleep' and more!

And so I pray I am today as honest with myself, with life all around me and below and above me, with all who I encounter.

Reading was not an escape for her, any more than it is for me. It was an aspect of direct experience. She distinguished, of course, between the fictional world and the real one, in which she had to prepare dinners and so on. Still, for us, the fictional world was an extension of the real, and in no way a substitute for it, or refuge from it. Any more than sleeping is a substitute for waking." (Jincy Willett)

Without heads, where might they keep their minds, if they have them?" Kebes put in. "In their livers, obviously," Sokrates said.

He was guillotined in the French Revolution, and he said he'd keep blinking his eyes after his head was off, for as long as he had consciousness. He blinked seventeen times. That's a scientist," Gill said.

You couldn't get worse food, or food more detached from nature, if you tried. If you have an apple, you're connected to an apple tree. If you have a dish of set custard and half a glace cherry you're not connected to anything.

We are all inside her head and nowhere else, and of such stuff as dreams are made of. Once she's gone where will we be?

Know yourself.

I believe that Plato was correct in saying that our souls long for the Good, and that nobody chooses evil for themselves while recognizing that it is evil, though some may do it in ignorance.