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Quotes About Consciousness

One third of the people of the world are asleep at any given moment. The other two thirds are awake and probably stirring up trouble somewhere.
~ Dean Rusk
Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that.
~ Ramana Maharshi
The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.
~ Igor Stravinsky
One day/ One day I waited for myself/ I said to myself Guillaume it's time you came/ So I could know just who I am/ I who know others.
~ Guillaume Apollinaire
I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.
~ Walt Whitman
Forget the known, don't be all the time immersed in your experiences.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.
~ Barbara De Angelis
I have a much easier time imagining how we would understand the big bang, even though we can't do it yet, than I can imagine understanding consciousness.
~ Edward Witten
Time and space are only forms of thought.
~ E. Nesbit
I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.
~ John Galsworthy
You only live once and you don't know it because of the everyday activities, but if you walk around knowing you only have one time on this planet, you'll make a whole lot more of it.
~ Jordan Knight
Every time you think a thought it 'registers', and comes back to you according to the vibrations and wave lengths sent out from your mind.
~ Al Koran
Eternity is not ever-lasting time but the real, unfading, indestructible, and timeless Present, for, as Schroedinger said, the present is the only thing that has no end.
~ Ken Wilber
Now and then I become conscious of having the reputation of being one of the great drinkers, if not one of the great drunks, of our time.
~ Kingsley Amis
Live each day as if it be your last.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Time is a part of eternity, and of the same piece with it.
~ Moses Mendelssohn
For there is only one great adventure and that is inward toward the self, and for that, time nor space nor even deeds matter.
~ Henry Miller
Is being an idiot like being high all the time?
~ Janeane Garofalo
Without consciousness, space and time are nothing.
~ Robert Lanza
I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not aware of it passing.
~ Daniel Day-Lewis
Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.
~ Blaise Pascal
Time is an abstraction which, on earth, exists only for the human brain it has evolved.
~ Charles Lindbergh
Past, present and future are not amenities of language. Time unfolds into the seamsof being. It passes through you, making and shaping.
~ Don DeLillo