Quotes About Consciousness

We all take life for granted, one way or another.

Getting a good grasp of your life and what's going on around you is so important.

I don't want to look back and be like, 'You had it all, and you weren't even present for it. You weren't able to enjoy it.' I want to be here, be now and be grateful.

When I wake up in the morning, I like to express my gratitude for being on the planet. That gratefulness makes me very present.

Well, it's probably not something I'm conscious of, but I do gravitate towards characters that are kind of like me.

I own up to the fact that I am slow on the greens.

After writing 'The Omnivore's Dilemma,' I wanted to write a book that got past the choir, that got to people who didn't care about how their food was grown but who did care about their health.

I've always seen myself as a grown-up. Since I was a little kid.

Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.

A child in India grows up with the idea that you have to make choices that will create a better future. In fact, your whole life is a continuum of choices, so the more conscious you are, the greater your life will be.

I'm not actually sure if guilt is an emotion.

Even as a child, I felt very guilty about eating animals and never knew that there was something to do about it. And as I got older, it became clearer that there are things that I can do and choices I can make.

I like the state of being self-aware, it's interesting when you start to look at your own habits.

I'm most excited about people being more conscious about their eating habits.

Sometimes I think I understand everything—then I regain consciousness.

Physician Albert Scheweitzer said. We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness. Professor Leo Buscaglia notes, There seems to be accumulating evidence that there is actually an inborn need for this togetherness, this human interaction, this love. It seems that without these close ties with other human beings, a new born infant, for example, can regress developmentally, lose consciousness, fall into idiocy and die.

Do good—even in little things. God sees them all. — Jerry Hamilton —

and his forehead would slash a pain through his thoughts and he would know it was real

In fact, if you look at the last four syllables of the word individuality, you will see that they spell duality. That's not just a semantic accident.

there isn't really any such thing as a subject and an object, there is only oneness.

The nesting doll of memory collapses into its component pieces, each leading someplace smaller and smaller [...]

A person with a clear heart and open mind can experience the wilderness anywhere on earth. It is a quality of one's own consciousness. The planet is a wild place and will always be.

Like imagination and the body, language rises unbidden.

WE SHALL SEE WHO KNOWS HOW TO BE