Quotes About Consciousness

Every moment is as real as every other. Every 'now,' when you say, 'This is the real moment,' is as real as every other 'now' - and therefore all the moments are just out there. Just as every location in space is out there, I think every moment in time is out there, too.

I think, on a personal level, everybody, when you go through the checkout line after you get your groceries and they say, 'Paper or plastic?' We should be saying, 'Neither one.' We should have our own cloth bags.

There is no such thing as death; life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.

The only thing you ever have is now.

To the soul, there is no past and no future; all is, and will be ever, in now. For artificial purposes time is mutually agreed on, but there is really no such thing.

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.

Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

To think is to practice brain chemistry.

I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future.

Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.

When reading, only read. When eating, only eat. When thinking, only think.

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.

The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head where you are doing, doing, doing.

The Self is self-luminous without darkness and light, and is the reality which is self-manifest. Therefore, one should not think of it as this or as that. The very thought of thinking will end in bondage.

I am not what I think. I am thinking what I think.

Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.

I think people generally are lost, as they keep thinking about what is going to happen and what they have done. They are not alive anymore. The art of listening is missing. In their head, they are doing something else.

By immersing ourselves with our consciousness in a supersensible world, we now learn a new kind of thinking, a new life of mental pictures, one that is not dependent on the nervous system in the way ordinary thinking is. We know that previously we have had to make use of our nervous system, but now we no longer need our brain.

But the answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it. And just to live. But you're doing that anyway. However you intellectualise it, you still just live.