Quotes About Consciousness

The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.

There are certain songs that just stick around and do something that transcends whatever time they were written in. Through different eras, people are able to impart different meaning to the song, and they become part of some sort of consciousness.

Because there is a larger awareness that transcends time and space, an awareness is available after death.

My purpose is to help people look at themselves and begin to shift their concepts. Remember, we are not our country, our race, or religion. We are eternal spirits. Seeing ourselves as spiritual beings without label is a way to transform the world and reach a sacred place for all of humanity.

What was earth, we made into filth. We must at least be able to transform it back to earth.

All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?

I've worked all my life on the subject of awareness, whether it's awareness of the body, awareness of the mind, awareness of your emotions, awareness of your relationships, or awareness of your environment. I think the key to transforming your life is to be aware of who you are.

I want to stop transforming and just start being.

And if I can take part in it by transforming my own consciousness, then someone else's, I'm happy to do it.

Photographers usually want to photograph facts and things. But I'm interested in the nature of the thing itself. A photograph of someone sleeping tells me nothing about their dream state; a photograph of a corpse tells me nothing about the nature of death. My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient.

Death may simply be an alteration in consciousness, a transition for continued life in a nonmaterial form.

Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists.

I try to use public transport, always.

Time is not outside us, but inside. Only we live with past, present, and future, and the present is too brief to experience anyway; it is retained afterward and then it is either codified or it slips into amnesia.

That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it sometimes happens that we don't notice the threshold has been crossed.

Where is the borderland between memory and hallucination?

dead in the mind, meanin you're present but your ignorance only makes ur presense worse!

O Man! Be ever prepared. Live this moment as though it is your last moment on this earth and acquire the maximum spiritual wealth here and now.

Your life right now is a reflection of your past thoughts.

Perhaps to them and their peers their ecological consciousness is a bigger sign of prestige than a fur coat.

How could you forget something you never learned or had?!

It is not true that you feel something when you are in an accident. There is no feeling, no thought. You do and you do not exist, like a particle of dust swirling in the air. You see the blue sky and you are part of it, you are a part of the air, the water, the greenery in the park. You drift in a silence where you cannot even hear the beating of your own heart. Isn't that the experience of nothingness?

Art educates. That's why writers must know life. . .If the writer knows life, his work is often progressive, even though his own consciousness may lag behind.

Sight seen that's been being is meaning.