Quotes About Consciousness

I believe immensely in past life regression.

I think the dual existence thing is a regular pastime for all human beings, and for that matter anything in this universe.

I think about life and death a lot. For the longest time I thought this was it, but then I thought maybe reincarnation does exist and we will all come back. My new thought is either of these could be true, but realistically what is going to happen is when you are dead you are not going to know you are dead, so it's not the end of the world.

I'm petrified of reincarnation because, you know, I like being me.

What I think is more important than actually believing in reincarnation or thinking about a post-death existence is to live in the present.

I have been motivated by this idea since I was a kid that if we invented machines that were created in the way that people are - were aware, have free will, inventive machines, machines that would be geniuses - potentially, they could reinvent themselves. They're not just applying it to other things - they could actually redesign themselves.

I don't think the scientific method and the science fictional method are really analogous. The thing about them is that neither is really practiced very much, at least not consciously. But the fact that they are methodical does relate them.

The process of creating is related to the process of dreaming although when you are writing you're doing it and when you're dreaming, it's doing you.

The brain is an immensely complex organ, and many mysteries remain. Exactly how brain and mind or soma and psyche are related is one of them.

Every animal is related to its own constitution and the consciousness of it.

A woman should be less concerned about Paris and more concerned about whether the dress she's about to buy relates to the way she lives.

The mind-brain is lived only from a first-person perspective, and it is a dynamic, plastic organ that changes in relation to the environment.

Relationships are very good at making you more conscious of yourself. Especially as you get older, you develop a crust around your madnesses and shortcomings that take someone else to recognize them.

We all fall into our habits, our routines, our ruts. They're used quite often, consciously or unconsciously, to avoid living, to avoid doing the messy part of having relationships with other people, of dealing with a person next to us. That's why we can all be in a room on our cell phones and not have to deal with one another.

I would not say I chose to write long poems on a conscious level. The long poem has been a relative constant.

If man was the relative of animals, then animals were the relatives of man, and in degrees bearers of that inwardness of which man, the most advanced of their kin, is conscious in himself.

My daughter's just going to be really hip! My goal is to be as eco-conscious as possible: There's so much out there for parents who want to do that. I plan to keep her eco-friendly as she gets older. I think we all sort of have to do it.

I do a lot of visualisations and meditation and a lot of hippie stuff.

Safety is something that happens between your ears, not something you hold in your hands.

Even after creating a budget and being more money conscience, it's still easy to overspend during the holidays.

Homo sapiens does its best to forget the fact, but it is an animal.

I'm hoping to raise a little consciousness and shine some light on the idea of responsibility.

Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.

It seems entirely possible to me that horrible things can be going on without us becoming horrible people.