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Quotes About Consciousness

Is there a meditation that is not the ego trying to become? Is meditation conscious if every effort implies time?
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.
~ John Green
I am the presence standing here at this juncture of Time & Space- who else?
~ Joyce Carol Oates
The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time. Get into a fist fight, put your mind on the strategy of the fight, and you will not feel the other fellow's punches.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
We confuse ourselves with space-time events, when in fact we are the ones who generate these space-time events.
~ Deepak Chopra
All thinking, knowing, perception, space-time, occur in consciousness. You are a non-local consciousness. The world is in you.
~ Deepak Chopra
When I die, I will not see myself die, for the first time.
~ Antonio Porchia
Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me.
~ Emile M. Cioran
There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes.
~ Ernest Hemingway
What is it that makes all of us end each day with the sense that we have not lived our time, but have been lived, used by what we do?
~ Jacob Needleman
The real nature of the present revealed itself: it was what exists, all that was not present did not exist.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Designers must be both conscious and unconscious at the same time. Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle talent.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
Whether it is a simulated experience or a dream, the information that exists is all real... and an illusion at the same time.
~ Masamune Shirow
For it is only by forgetting that we ever really drop the thread of time and approach the experience of living in the present moment, so elusive in ordinary hours.
~ Michael Pollan
Now is the only time. How we relate to it creates the future.
~ Pema Chodron
But all the time our warmth and brilliance are right here. This is who we really are. We are one blink of an eye away from being fully awake.
~ Pema Chodron
You have all the time in the world, but don't waste a moment.
~ Ram Dass
The extent to which we live from day to day, from week to week, intent on details and oblivious to larger presences, is a gauge of our impoverishment in time.
~ Robert Grudin
A long time ago, Descartes sad, "I think, therefore I am." But if you are not thinking, what?
~ Seungsahn
The higher Truth is all the time working in us but through the lower power - Aparashakti. It is when we become conscious of the play of this higher Power then only yoga begins.
~ Sri Aurobindo
We are creatures of information and the imagination. The monkey we are already beginning to transform and shed. We don't look like the other monkeys, and we look less like them all the time.
~ Terence McKenna
I mean, time for me, I can make it go slow or fast, however I please. That's how I know it doesn't exist.
~ Willow Smith
Every time I wake, I understand how easy it is to be nothing.
~ Antonio Porchia
Success means participating fully in the conscious evolution of humanity, contributing to the shift in time to avoid the chaos and disasters foreseen.
~ Barbara Marx Hubbard