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Quotes About Consciousness

I'd woken up early, and I took a long time getting ready to exist.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Accept the present moment and find the perfection that is deeper than any form and untouched by time.
~ Eckhart Tolle
We look backward too much and we look forward too much; thus we miss the only eternity of which we can be absolutely sure - the eternal present, for it is always now.
~ M. William Phelps
There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
~ Albert Einstein
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
~ Alan W. Watts
Wake up! Time to die!
~ Brion James
I wondered what it would be like to die. Was it like going to sleep or like waking up? Was there no more time? Or did time go on forever?
~ Grace McCleen
And never have I felt so deeply at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the world.
~ Albert Camus
Everyone you see is you in a different time & space.
~ Ralph Smart
Be careful how you spend your time: Spend your time in nothing which you know must be repented of.
~ Richard Baxter
Time is of your own making; Its clock ticks in your head. The moment you stop thought Time too stops dead.
~ Angelus Silesius
Anesthesia is quite remarkable. Its lost time. And you wake up kind of refreshed.
~ Michael Keaton
Light is time thinking about itself.
~ Octavio Paz
Listen to everything all the time and remind yourself when you are not listening.
~ Pauline Oliveros
First begin between selves, set a definite time, at each at that time put down what the other is doing. Do this 20 days. You shall find you have the key to telepathy.
~ Edgar Cayce
I also believe that when one dies, one may wake up to the reality that proves that time does not exist.
~ Thor Heyerdahl
Among the millions of nerve cells that clothe parts of the brain there runs a thread. It is the thread of time, the thread that has run through each succeeding wakeful hour of the individual.
~ Wilder Penfield
Where are you? Here What time is it? Now What are you? This moment.
~ Dan Millman
Time is not a line, but a series of now-points.
~ Taisen Deshimaru
Learn to watch your drama unfold while at the same time knowing you are more than your drama.
~ Ram Dass
I read that Buddha was able to see all of his past lives, and I realized the only way any of these people could do that is by being outside of time.
~ Fred Alan Wolf
Time passes so slowly if you are unaware of it and so quickly if you are aware of it.
~ Marc Bolan
Consciousness: That annoying time between naps
~ Steven Wright
If you have time to breathe you have time to meditate. You breathe when you walk. You breathe when you stand. You breathe when you lie down.
~ Ajahn Amaro