Quotes About Consciousness

An autobiography is the story of how a man thinks he lived.

The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.

The Oriental thinks everything in the sense-perceptible world is 'maya'; everything perceived by our senses and all thinking connected with sense perceptions is 'maya,' the great illusion. The only reality is the reality of the soul. What a human being achieves in his or her soul is reality.

Nobody really thinks they're evil.

If everybody thinks of something, then it will happen. Your mind is part of the universe. It is connected, you can use its energy.

When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.

Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.

Dreaming is a phenomenon of purely individual consciousness, and consequently impossible to thoroughly deconstruct by a community of researchers. But dreaming matters.

I need one of those baby monitors from my subconscious to my consciousness so I can know what the hell I'm really thinking about.

God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so.

One must always be aware, to notice even though the cost of noticing is to become responsible.

Everything we do, every thought we've ever had, is produced by the human brain. But exactly how it operates remains one of the biggest unsolved mysteries, and it seems the more we probe its secrets, the more surprises we find.

I've always thought that when they say ignorance is bliss, the converse to that is that knowledge is hell. The more you know, the bleaker things can get.

What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.

Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.

I never thought of it as God. I didn't know what to call it. I don't believe in devils, but demons I do because everyone at one time or another has some kind of a demon, even if you call it by another name, that drives them.

The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.

To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.

I try to be as thoughtful as I can about everything that comes out of my mouth and not reinforce sexism.

I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.

Where can you look in your daily life and find ways to do it better, to be more thoughtful of the Earth, to be more thoughtful of people?

Obviously, growing up in France, I had foie gras probably when I was two years old. Writing about it and understanding what's going on in the world about it, I think I became more conscious and more thoughtful about things, for sure.