Quotes About Consciousness

because then the sum of experiences, of suffering, of self-analysis and soul-struggle have mellowed the individual and he can aid because he speaks and moves out of a ripe, conscious wisdom—not through precepts, ideas, formulas.

I remember your phrase: "Only whores appreciate me." I wanted to say: you can only have blood-consciousness with whores, there is too much mind between us, too much literature, too much illusion—but then you denied there had been only mind. . . .

Strange that when we finally fly, the separation from the past seems easier to achieve. Height and distance from the earth seem to stabilize the spirit, to liberate it from its sorrow. We enter the consciousness of the cosmos.

We carefully observe and watch the happenings of the entire world without realizing they are projections of our inner selves.

Jesus, don't think this is cold. I'm just simply functioning as mind. The whole thing is going to collapse soon—the mind, I mean.

With the use of drugs people became passive, uncreative tourists in the world of images.

For the writer the conscious mind may be the great inhibitor, the great censor. This conscious mind is created by social mores, education, environment, family pressures, and conventions. For creativity it is necessary to work with the unconscious which accumulates pure experience, reactions, impressions, intuitions, images, memories—an unconscious freed from the negative effect of societal evaluations. The conscious mind can only act later as critic, selector, discarder.

We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Wir sehen die Dinge nicht, wie sie sind, wir sehen sie so, wie wir sind.

Ja sam jedino sposobna zbrajati život, dok tako prepun ne postane nepodnošljiv, odve? snažan, i raspršujem se u krizama histerije, u milijune komadi?a, zbog prevelike koli?ine života... Prava je patnja živjeti u 'unutrašnjosti života'... netko bi me morao u?initi nesvjesnom. Ubiti me. U?initi me neosjetljivom, nemo?nom. Dijelovi mene morali bi umrijeti, ali ja sam sve dobro zaštitila od umiranja.

There is then no sacred or profane, spiritual or sensual, but everything that lives is pure and void.

At the very least," she'd written to me once, "when we die we will be as if asleep, in the same place we were before birth, so why fear death? Scattered on the wind, unaware as we were before we came into this world, with no memory of any of it.

At the very least, when we die we will be as if asleep, in the same place we were before birth, so why fear death? Scattered on the wind, unaware as we were before we came into this world, with no memory of any of it.

I believe in the future resolution of these two states, dream and reality, which are seemingly so contradictory, into a kind of absolute reality, a surreality, if one may so speak.

Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject.

I like life well enough to want to live it awake

Mes sens s'étaient usés jusqu'à la transparence, et quand je descendis au matin vers la ville, l'azur du ciel entra en moi.

It is not that I lack attention or interest....but even though I am extremely sensitive to the outside world, I can never fully believe in its reality...The real world always remains somewhat fantastic for me...I have no feeling of its reality.

It seems to me sometimes that I do not really exist, but that I merely imagine I exist.

And if it is sufficient to imagine one loves, in order to love, so it is sufficient to say to oneself that when one loves one imagines one loves, in order to love a little less and even in order to detach oneself a little from one's love, or at any rate to detach some of the crystals from one's love.

A mon goût, tout cela est trop écrit, d'un style trop précieux, trop conscient... J'écris toujours mieux et plus aisément ce que je n'ai pas porté trop longtemps en tête ; dès que ma pensée précède ma plume, c'est pour arrêter celle-ci.

How lovely it is to dream while you are awake.

Being naked takes on different values, according to the self-consciousness of the one who is naked; or according to the consciousness of the one who is looking at the nakedness. The men are tortured in their minds by the meaning of being naked, especially by the literal nakedness of women but also by their own nakedness: what it means to be seen and to be vulnerable. The nakedness of the women they look at, interpret, desire, associate with acts of violence they want to commit.

Modern mass culture, aimed at the consumer, the civilization of prosthetics, is crippling people's souls, setting up barriers between man and the crucial questions of his existence, his consciousness of himself as a spiritual being