Quotes About Consciousness

You should do everything as if it's the last time you might ever do it. Because, you know, it may be.

We're actually making not one but 30 choices at a time: Our mind is making a choice. Our heart's making choices.

Meditation refreshes our mind and helps us let go of old patterns. We spend less time dwelling on the past or worrying about the future; instead, we are focused on the present.

Space and time are not objects of perception, but qualities of awareness

What you see is not what we see. What you see is distracted by memory, by being who you are, all this time, for all these years.

You are before being and not being, awake and dream take place in time. You have no time.

Psychologically time is seldom homogenous but rather is as full of shapes as space.

The day is conscious of itself.

Too often we become so consumed with how we spend our days that we lose track of how we are spending our lives.

When you are fully present, you are truly living; the rest of the time, you are merely existing

The more you establish quiet time and mediation as part of your daily discipline, the more you go through the rotation into mirror (dream) worlds.

Space-time-causation, or name-and-form, is what is called Maya.

…beating time along the edge of thought.

My waking and sleeping seem mixed together. I'm walking in a dream half the time, and sleeping through reality the other half.

it's too dark a night to walk with your eyes closed

You ask: Why is the malady of death fatal? She answers: Because whoever has it doesn't know he's a carrier, of death. And also because he's like to die without any life to die to, and without even knowing that's what he's doing.

You're always more unreal to yourself than other people are.

And I knew it. That's the worst part: I knew it.

Ne bildiÄŸinizi bilmeden bildiÄŸinizi san?rs?n?z, o bilginin sonuna varamazs?n?z, dünyadaki mutsuzluÄŸun tek ba??n?za sureti olduÄŸunuzu san?rs?n?z, imtiyazl? bir al?nyaz?s?n?n sureti. Kendinizi olmakta olan bu ÅŸeyin hakimi san?rs?n?z, böyle bir ÅŸeyin var olduÄŸunu san?rs?n?z

The space for it existed in me. I knew it the same as other people, but, strangely, in advance.

Suddenly I see myself as another, as another would be seen, outside myself, available to all, available to all eyes, in circulation for cities, journeys, desire.

But what is there about me I am so completely unaware of and which she summons me to know?

Il vero luogo natio è quello dove per la prima volta si è posato uno sguardo consapevole su se stessi: la mia prima patria sono stati i libri.

Che cos'è l'insonnia se non la maniaca ostinazione della nostra mente a fabbricare pensieri, ragionamenti, sillogismi e definizioni tutte sue, il suo rifiuto di abdicare di fronte alla divina incoscienza degli occhi chiusi o alla saggia follia dei sogni? L'uomo che non dorme - da qualche mese a questa parte ho fin troppe occasioni di constatarlo su me stesso - si rifiuta più o meno consapevolmente di affidarsi al flusso delle cose.