Quotes About Consciousness

By meditating on death, we paradoxically become conscious of life.

The apparently unthreatening act of settling the mind on the breath and observing what is occurring in the body and mind exposes a contradiction between the sort of person we wish to be and the kind of person we are.

An agnostic Buddhist would not regard the Dharma as a source of answers to questions of where we came from, where we are going, what happens after death. He would seek such knowledge in the appropriate domains: astrophysics, evolutionary biology, neuroscience, etc.

One needs to be more vitally conscious of what is happening now. This is not to deny the reality of past and future. It is about embarking on a new relationship with the impermanence and temporality of life. Instead of hankering after the past and speculating about the future, one sees the present as the fruit of what has been and the germ of what will be.

And maybe a hundred billion cephalopod minds, out in the Trojans, just light-minutes apart, have become something—" "Transcendent.

Even the deep inner senses: even proprioception

A sentient mind refuses to be confined by the parameters of its programming.

She was capable of suffering – that was the price of sentience.

After the emergence of intelligence, the story of any biosphere tended to get a lot simpler. It was a major reason for the silence of the stars.

It's kind of like when you look at yourself in the mirror and you say your name. And it gets to a point where none of it seems real. Well, sometimes I can do that, but I don't need an hour in front of a mirror. It just happens very fast, and things start to slip away. And I just open my eyes, and I see nothing. And then I start to breathe really hard trying to see something, but I can't. It doesn't happen all the time, but when it does, it scares me.

I was in my bed trying to figure out why sometimes you can wake up and go back to sleep and other times you can't

I was suddenly very aware of the fact it was me standing up in that tunnel with the wind over my face. Not caring if I saw downtown. Not even thinking about it. Because I was standing in the tunnel. And I was really there. And that was enough to make me feel infinite.

Maybe it's good to put things in perspective, but sometimes, I think that the only perspective is to really be there.

It's much easier not to know things sometimes.

I'm trying not to think about it too much because that makes it worse. It's kind of like when you look at yourself in the mirror and you say your name. And it gets to a point where none of it seems real. I can do that, but I don't need an hour in front of a mirror. It happens very fast, and things start to slip away.

It's kind of like when you look at yourself in the mirror and you say your name. And it gets to a point where none of it seems real.

It's like my very first memory, which I guess is the first time I was aware that I was alive.

It's kind of like when you look at yourself in the mirror and you say your name. And it gets to a point where none of it seems real. Well, sometimes, I can do that, but I don't need an hour in front of a mirror.

I think you of all people are alive and appreciates what that means.

people are alive and appreciate what that means. At least I hope you do because other

I was in my bed trying to figure out why sometimes you can wake up and go back to sleep and other times you can't.

She wanted her son to be smart enough to get out of this nightmare, but not smart enough to know that he was actually inside one.

É só que às vezes as pessoas usam o pensamento para não participar da vida.

So, I guess Zen is a day like this when you are part of the air and remember things.