Quotes About Consciousness

'Detroit' started based on a book called 'The Singularity is Near' by Ray Kurzweil, which is about this idea that one day there could be machines that are more intelligent than we are.

Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses.

At times when I am myself sitting at a retreat, and at the end I get into my car to drive away, I watch my hand move forward to turn on the radio. When I can be mindful, I notice the fact that I actually don't want in that moment to listen to the news or hear some music.

It's always important to recognize your situation and not take it for granted.

I feel like there's already a written narrative going on everywhere. All the different situations and realities you're in, like words floating by. It's something that I didn't start thinking about until recently, but you can hitch that ride, that narrative that's already been created. You just have to read it and write it down.

The sixth sense is at the core of our experiences. It is what makes experiences out of events.

Little Haley Joel Osment in 'The Sixth Sense' can see dead people. Well, I can see racist people.

As young parents of three girls, living in California during the late Sixties and early Seventies, Meredith and I couldn't help but be aware of the rising level of dialogue, debate, commentary, and proclamations about the place of women in society and about how to raise females in light of this raised consciousness.

I've always been skeptical of the idea that sentience is going to be an exclusively human attribute.

Conscious listening is very largely overlooked in the mainstream of education. It's such an important skill in life. And yet we expect children to pick it up from home or from peers informally.

White Americans can go a long time without ever thinking about the color of their skin. Black and brown Americans have no choice but to confront issues of race every day.

I'm superconscious of not putting chemicals on my skin, like parabens and sulfates.

Those who love and who have a sense of purity live in a very luminous band of awareness.

Never think you can separate who you are from what you're doing.

When you become thoughtless, then you can see, feel Reality.

Your attention has to be on your Spirit.

We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.

Part of avoiding thoughts about something was not encouraging opportunities for that something to makes itself felt.

We must each achieve greater individual consciousness and self-knowledge, and project mindful kindness toward everything and everyone.

I try to be aware of the life that surrounds me as much as my mind permits me. It's the only time I have new blissful moments, and I love bliss.

Be here now. It keeps us in a place of love, not fear.

At its highest, love is a religious state of consciousness. I love you too, Buddha loves, Jesus loves, but their love demands nothing in return.

Truth is in your sahasrara. And when the truth comes in, you are surprised that truth is love and love is truth, pure love.

One of the things I love best about [my] 'Kind Diet' is that you will actually become part of the solution to our global problems.