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Quotes About Consciousness

La maldad existe, pero es inmaterial. Un epifenómeno de la voluntad humana.
~ Marcelo Figueras
What is a person if not the sum of her memories?" —Lela Dax
~ Marco Palmieri
Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
~ Marcus Aurelius
The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for something while you live and it is in your power.
~ Marcus Aurelius
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Regain your senses, call yourself back, and once again wake up. Now that you realize that only dreams were troubling you, view this 'reality' as you view your dreams.
~ Marcus Aurelius
When you arise in the moring, think of what a precious privelege it is to be alive-- to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love
~ Marcus Aurelius
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive-to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Never forget that the universe is a single living organism possessed of one substance and one soul, holding all things suspended in a single consciousness and creating all things with a single purpose that they might work together spinning and weaving and knotting whatever comes to pass.
~ Marcus Aurelius
The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Your life is what your thoughts make it
~ Marcus Aurelius
Forget everything else. Keep hold of this alone and remember it: Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest has been lived already, or is impossible to see.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts; for the soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
~ Marcus Aurelius
How good it is, when you have roast meat or suchlike foods before you, to impress on your mind that this is the dead body of a fish, this the dead body of a bird or pig.
~ Marcus Aurelius
10. Forget everything else. Keep hold of this alone and remember it: Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest has been lived already, or is impossible to see. The span we live is small—small as the corner of the earth in which we live it. Small as even the greatest renown, passed from mouth to mouth by short-lived stick figures, ignorant alike of themselves and those long dead.
~ Marcus Aurelius
What am I but a little flesh, a little breath, and the thinking part that rules the whole?
~ Marcus Aurelius
Constantly regard the universe as one living being, having one substance and one soul; and observe how all things have reference to one perception, the perception of this one living being; and how all things act with one movement; and how all things are the cooperating causes of all things that exist; observe, too, the continuous spinning of the thread and the contexture of the web.
~ Marcus Aurelius
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Your mind will take on the character of your most frequent thoughts: souls are dyed by thoughts.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Live every day as if thy last.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts; for the soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Enter their minds, and you'll find the judges you're so afraid of—and how judiciously they judge themselves.
~ Marcus Aurelius