Quotes About Consciousness

I've always thought that we are what we remember, and the less we remember, the less we are.

A lot of people can't remember things because they weren't actually there to begin with - they don't take it all in.

I remember clearly, when I was about 4, my Aunt Linda said, 'I'm not babysitting him no more. He's bad.' It was one of the first conscious shifts I remember making. I decided, 'I'm going to be good now.'

Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.

The experiencing self lives in the moment; it is the one that answers the question, 'Does it hurt?' or 'What were you thinking about just now?' The remembering self is the one that answers questions about the overall evaluation of episodes or periods of one's life, such as a stay in the hospital or the years since one left college.

I like to remind myself that every morning I'm making a choice to live.

Calvin is a constant reminder that I'm not always as present as I want to be. His go-to state of being is present. So I'm really grateful of that part of being his parent.

If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.

It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most 'familiarity' is meditated and delusive.

Reminding myself that I have a tailbone keeps me in check.

I think there is a hunger for things that wake you up, something that makes you peel back your eyes, that reminds you that you are alive. Art is at its best when it is in the 'now.'

There's no way to remove the observer - us - from our perceptions of the world.

When you buy something for $9.99, and you know that it'll fall apart after you wear it once... you're going into the shopping experience knowing that you're renting. So all I'm doing is making the rental process more efficient.

We've forgotten to respect clothes and consider who made them and where the material came from. We've been encouraged to buy things and, if we don't like them, bin them. When I grew up, we'd repair things or alter them.

Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don't know that I'm doing it, usually.

I'm trying to be very aware of not repeating myself.

The process of repeating a rhythm while it gently evolves has an incredible effect on the brain, or on mine anyway.

Fiction is a report from the interior.

I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting.

When a child comes in, I believe that it's a 'multipersonhood,' and it knows it, its consciousness knows it, and it has a nuclei in the center of its consciousness that is the repository of all experience and all knowledge. And when you look in the eyes of your baby and you feel this sense that they are an old soul, I believe indeed they are.

Your experience is a dream; so is my experience. This stuff about how the frontal cortex is repressed during dreaming, lucid dreaming presents an obvious contradiction to it. The only difference is sensory input.

The Republican consciousness has no integrity and it falls apart once you check it out. If you're a Christian, why would you want to fry this dude?

There are a great number of Republicans who are economically conservative but have hearts and a consciousness about their country.

I never want to hurt no one to the point so they can't go back to their children.