Quotes About Consciousness

But why write about things that exist even without you? Why describe in words things that are not words?

while the world worlds up at us."   I

I play back everything that has happened to me before this. I want to ask Big Guy if he is doing this, too. I want him to know what it clearly seems to me: that if it's true your life flashes past your eyes before you die, then it is also the truth that your life rushes forth when you are ready to start to truly be alive?

Para todo aquel que intente discernir qué hacer con su vida: PRESTA ATENCIÓN A LAS COSAS A LAS QUE PRESTAS ATENCIÓN. No necesitas mucha más información.

They don't see what they're doing. The only thing they see are their intentions.

Your life is what you see in front of you. -An-mei

I know how it is to live your life like a dream. To listen and watch, to wake up and try to understand what has already happened.

But your thoughts and emotions after death are no different from what they were when you were alive, I suppose. You remember only what you want to remember. You know only what your heart allows you to know.

We don't see the world as it is, we see it as we are

How can I accept a limited definable self when I feel, in me, all possibilities?... I never feel the four walls around the substance of the self, the core. I feel only space. Illimitable space.

There are books which we read early in life, which sink into our consciousness and seem to disappear without leaving a trace. And then one day we find, in some summing-up of our life and put attitudes towards experience, that their influence has been enormous.

I believe that in judging our actions we are more severe than professional judges. We judge not only our actions, but our thoughts, our intentions, our secret curses, our hidden hate.

We see things not as they are, but as we are. Because it is the 'I' behind the 'eye' that does the seeing.

We don't see things how they are, we see things the way we are.

My attraction to drugs is based on an immense desire to annihilate awareness.

You can only see in others what your nature allows you to see. The range of your vision depends on the extent of the personal development. The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic; I never generalize, intellectualize. I see, I hear, I feel. These are my primitive instruments of discovery.

The main thing is to feel your presence—hear you humming or yawning, see your combs & brushes lying around, worry about which dress you should put on, etc.

Films are like a dose of opium, then as you come out in the street it's a shock, and you are brutally awakened from your dream. But when you stay, you never wake up. The dream goes on working. I would fall asleep for a while and then see images on the screen, and I could not tell the difference between the film and a dream.

I think sometimes that I must live a great part of my life in a trance, or in some sort of anesthetic state.

Then the anger about blaming society for the situation in which we find ourselves — blaming, say, man for the situation in which woman finds herself. I don't believe in that because I believe very much our double responsibility, that we engage ourselves in destructive relationships, that we have a part of the responsibility, unconsciously.

No vemos las cosas como son, las vemos como somos

La fatalité se déplace: plus l'homme prend conscience de lui-même, plus il là découvre intérieure.

Herir y ser consciente de que se hiere, saber que es una necesidad, lo encuentro intolerable. No tengo la valentía de June. Lucho por evitarle a Hugo toda humillación.

Noi non vediamo le cose come sono; le vediamo come siamo noi.