Quotes About Consciousness

The last time you were happy about nothing; the first time you were afraid about nothing. Which came first?

Time exists in order that everything doesn't happen all at once…and space exists so that it doesn't all happen to you.

At any moment in time, our reality is based on whatever we focus on.

The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time

Can we think more than one thought at the same time? Most of us know we can't do that. Both hemispheres are always working all of the time. But one of them is always dominant.

I seem to myself, as in a dream, An accidental guest in this dreadful body.

I had feared to be presumptuous; of building up a fairyland out of dreams; of yielding to my imagination rather than to my good sense. And yet, deep down in some inner consciousness, a faint insidious hope had whispered to itself that if I showed myself worthy, perhaps-perhaps- And now perhaps had become reality, and all doubt and mistrust a vanished dream.

Sometimes I live so much in my mind that I forget what is right before my eyes.

She say guilt is a useless emotion. Oh, please, says Nancy. Guilt is what separates humans from animals.

We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else's mind.

T]here is a certain kind of child who awakens from a book as from an abyssal sleep, swimming heavily up through layers of consciousness toward a reality that seems less real than the dream-state that has been left behind. I was such a child.

How noble and good everyone could be if, every evening before falling asleep, they were to recall to their minds the events of the whole day and consider exactly what has been good and bad. Then without realizing it, you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day.

I enjoyed myself as much as I could, trying consciously or unconsciously to fill the void with jokes.

siendo conscientes de nuestra tarea y no nos quejemos, que ya habrá una salida. Dios nunca ha abandonado a nuestro pueblo. A lo largo de

Because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, How alive am I willing to be?

Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious. When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability to throw the lights on for your reader. He or she will recognize his or her life and truth in what you say, in the pictures you have painted, and this decreases the terrible sense of isolation that we have all had too much of.

To participate requires self-discipline and trust and courage, because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, as my friend Dale puts it, How alive am I willing to be?

Nothing can be delicious when you are holding your breath.

and you try to quiet your mind so you can hear...

I saw a button pin once that said: "I'm not tense. I'm just very, very alert.

Are you willing to see what you are seeing, and to know what you know?

How alive am I willing to be?

Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.

We think we're humans having spiritual experiences, but we're really spirits having human experiences