Quotes About Consciousness

Most people think we believe our experience. This is not true; we experience what we believe.

I have a body, but I am not my body. I have a mind and thoughts, but I am not my mind. I have emotions and feelings, but I am not my emotions.

The ultimate experience of being mindful occurs when we forget about everything, even the mindful self and doing. In that mode we are full of energy, utterly self-generated.

We're not human beings having a spiritual experience, but spirits having a human experience.

The Now is the only thing that is real, anyway

You are your life, so your life is wherever you are.

Lo soñado se confunde con lo pensado. La realidad y la irrealidad se vuelven continuas.

Quizá cada gato o cada perro se crea inmortal, porque no ha muerto. ¿Me sigue usted? Pero nosotros sabemos que moriremos y vivimos obsesionados con combatir la muerte, lo cual hace que ella tenga una presencia desmedida, a menudo aplastante, en nuestra vida. El ser humano tiene alma en la justa medida en que es consciente de su propia muerte.

after all, it is this noticing that makes things real.

If a world can be what we learn not to notice, noticing becomes a form of political labor.

Sometimes, I don't notice I'm singing.

Wake up, Caitlin, Mr. Lensing had said. But what he didn't under­stand was that this dreamland was preferable, walking through this life half-sleeping, everything at arm's length or farther away.

It was like those songs I'd heard as a child, each so familiar, and all mine. When i got older and realized the words were sad, the stories tragic, it didn't make me love them any less. By then they were already part of me, woven into my conciousness & memory

Happy, normal lives going on in happy, normal ways, in a world that was anything but. Once you realized this, experienced something that made it crystal clear, you couldn't forget it. Like a face. Or a name. However you first learn that truth, once it's with you, it never really goes away.

You first learn truth, once it's with you, it never really goes away.

I am consciously surrendering conciousness.

Think careful, not cool. While driving, keep windows cracked but not wide open. Some people think that letting a dog hang their head out the window is cool, but it's dangerous. Dogs can get hurled from the car in an accident or have debris fly into their eyes, causing permanent damage.

Those who claim to write about something larger and more significant than the self sometimes fail to comprehend the dimensions of self.

Of course I wondered if I was dreaming, but it seemed so real.

You have to notice the truth in order to be able to avoid it.

I am neither virgin nor priest enough to play with the inner life.

L'importance n'est pas ce que l'on fait de l'Homme, mais ce qu'il fait de ce que l'on a fait de lui.

Cada instante aparece para traer los siguientes. Me aferro a cada instante con toda el alma; sé que es único, irremplazable, y sin embargo no movería un dedo para impedir su aniquilación.

Quisiera ver claro en mí antes de que sea demasiado tarde.