Quotes About Consciousness

If you're not careful, you can reach a point where you've made choices without thinking. Without planning. You can end up not living the life you'd meant to. Maybe one you deserve, but not one you intended." Here he wagged his finger again. "Make sure you think," he said. "Make sure you plan.

Love gives us a heightened consciousness through which to apprehend the world, but anger gives us a precise, detached perception of its own.

Individuals who rate high on the so-called Anxiety Sensitivity Index, or ASI, have a high degree of what's known as interoceptive awareness, meaning they are highly attuned to the inner workings on their bodies, to the beepings and bleatings, the blips and burps, of their physiologies; they are more conscious of their heart rate, blood pressure, digestive burblings, and so forth than other people are.

There is a deeper life than the life we see and hear with the open ear and the open eye and this is the life important and the life everlasting.

At a certain age, the light that you live in is inhabited by the shades…I'm very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination…These people are with me. It's just a stage of your life when the death of people doesn't banish them out of your consciousness, They're part of the light in your head.

The form of the poem, in other words, is crucial to poetry's power to do the thing which always is and always will be to poetry's credit: the power to persuade that vulnerable part of our consciousness of its rightness in spite of the evidence of wrongness all around it, the power to remind us that we are hunters and gatherers of values, that our very solitudes and distresses are creditable, in so far as they, too, are an earnest of our veritable human being.

We have taken control of biology, but not of ourselves.

We are part of the universe that has developed a remarkable ability: We can hold an image of the world in our minds. We are matter contemplating itself.

If you believe that the atoms that are inside your brain and your body act differently because they are in a living person than if they were in a rock or a crystal, then what you're saying is that the laws of physics are wrong.

When exactly does the "wave function collapse" take place? (So you're not kept in suspense, almost no modern physicist thinks that "consciousness" has anything whatsoever to do with quantum mechanics. There are an iconoclastic few who do, but it's a tiny minority, unrepresentative of the mainstream.)

There is a wide gap between admitting that we don't know everything about how the mind works and remembering that whatever it does, it needs to be compatible with the laws of nature.

If you are living in the past or in the future, you will never find a meaning in the present.

I think that the world ended a long time ago and no one realizes it. We're in a dream somewhere in a vortex of energy that just hasn't realized its nonexistence yet.

The first time I took LSD, it just blew everything away. I had such an incredible feeling of well-being.

Once you touch a dimension which is boundless, the idea of time and space disappears. What is here is there; what is there is here.

Be courageous and face this moment in time consciously and with all the discernment and clarity within your power.

Space and time are real for the man who is yet imperfect, and space is divided for him into dimensions; time, into past, present, and future.

Whenever you note the time on the clock, realize that it is now—right now—later than it has ever been.

Time limits are fictional. Losing all sense of time is actually the way to reality. We use clocks and calendars for convenience sake, not because that kind of time is real.

There is more going on beneath the surface than we think, and more going on in little, finite moments of time than we would guess.

Being human is being a lot of things at the same time.

All thought is energy. All things are in motion. All time is now.

I don't think of myself all the time.

Human self-understanding changes with time, and so also human consciousness deepens.