Quotes About Consciousness

A path is not something you're on. A path is what you are.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known Nothing you can see that isn't shown

What is reality, anyway? Just a collective hunch.

For me they are no different, reality and dreams.

I don't believe there's any such thing as objective reality. It's only reality as we experience it.

Reality doesn't bite, rather our perception of reality bites.

I would argue that nothing gives life more purpose than the realization that every moment of consciousness is a precious and fragile gift.

The human race is evolving to the realization that what is happening on the level of consciousness both precedes and determines what happens in the world.

There are many situations in life where we don't think while behaving in a certain way. Then there are instances which leads to the realization that maybe this is happening because you had behaved in a certain way. This thought at times is self liberating, according to me.

The 'Course in Miracles' says one day you will realize that death is not the punishment but the reward. And it says that birth is not the beginning of life but a continuation. And physical death is not the end of life but a continuation.

You know, we humans are programmed to think that big changes on the Earth happened a long time ago, or will happen a long time in the future. What we don't realize is that they actually can happen right now. Right here, right now, while we're alive, in our own hours and days and months and years.

The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.

One day, I was just thinking about something, and then - you know when you think, and you have that inner voice in your head? I realized it was in English.

I'm naturally sort of a sad person, and that comes out in my music, but when I realized how many people were listening to it... I wanted to be a little more conscious about what I was putting out and what people were going to be taking from it.

No actor ever forgets a role, so I should have realized something was wrong.

I think I have a heavily compartmentalized brain, which means that certain routines are simply running without me realizing it.

I could easily go one or two days without realizing that I'm so, so hungry. That's the negative outcome of what I've become.

The Roots know how to give their audience some medicine without them even realizing it.

I'm usually working on my own mythology, my own realm of created characters. Stories in mythology inspire me, though I may not be conscious of it.

We live in this realm where things exist but we pretend they don't exist, so that makes them, you know, nonexistent.

If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear? Who sees the second? First, the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is no second.

The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.

And in fact, one of the central reasons why I never got involved with any drugs or anything is that I remember talking to people in maybe 1975 who saw Hendrix but couldn't remember it. I was like, 'How could that be?'

Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.