Quotes About Consciousness

When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you're waiting for the elevator - instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence.

We try to be conscious of the amount of trash we have. Having a water filter allows us to be aware of not using too many water bottles. Since I am not able to hand wash due to my schedule, I use Seventh Generation laundry detergent, and I feel less guilty.

I counted everything. I counted the steps to the road, the steps up to church, the number of dishes and silverware I washed... anything that could be counted, I did.

When I became a mother, I was trying so hard, using reusable diapers, washing them, looking for organic supplies even though it's much more expensive, and facing so many challenges attempting to do the right thing.

For a moment Tess imagined she didn't exist. It was surprisingly soothing.

Belief was uniquely human.

First, I gave you two choices as a test: there are never just two choices. That is a lie to keep you from thinking too deeply. Second, and more important: the body is innocent. Deeply, beautifully, fundamentally innocent.

She couldn't explain it except with the word: there . She was there. Present in herself. She wasn't always, so it was worth remarking upon.

Some sober part of my brain seemed to observe everything I did, clucking disdainfully, informing me that ought to be embarrassed, yet making no move

You don't know where you are or where your dreams end and the world begins.

How do we know that our life really happened and that we are not simply accumulating details, making it all up as we go along?

No person lives in the future. The present, the present, the present. Life keeps on being that.

Being in a hurry. Getting to the next thing without fully entering the thing in front of me. I cannot think of a single advantage I've ever gained from being in a hurry. But a thousand broken and missed things, tens of thousands, lie in the wake of all that rushing.

Death scared me because I feared nothingness. If I had been nothing before I was born, then I could imagine that I would be nothing once I died.

Then," he says, "as my mind got functioning, everything was just beautiful. There was no right or wrong feeling, no social pressure. I believe that's what heaven's going to be like..." p 55

How easy to be a bird or an animal, living from day to day, unaware you're alive, unaware that one day you will die.

We know it, but chose forget it. Is too much hard to bear. Yesterday, you made me realize that: we chose forget.

some things cost more than you realize

Just 'cause you feel it doesn't mean it's there

I'm composed largely of what the streets and rooms look like, of how to arrive 'just' here.

i have no mind/just a series of clicks

Todo lo que nos rodea desde la cuna es un espectáculo pero la conciencia de ser espectáculo sólo se produce tras observar aquel cuerpo desnudo que por primera vez es observado desde el lado de la desnudez.

When I think of the future, I never see myself moving forward in time. I actually see time moving backward towards me.

Indeed, as we will see in the book, healthy communities are essential for sustaining vibrant market democracies. This is perhaps why authoritarian movements like fascism and communism try to replace community consciousness with nationalist or proletarian consciousness.