Quotes About Consciousness

The morning comes to consciousness

You have gone through life in sleep, Never woken to the nightmare. I tell you, life would be unendurable If you were wide awake.

The things I thought were real are shadows, and the real Are what I thought were private shadows.

Daffodil bulbs instead of balls Stared from the sockets of the eyes! He knew that thought clings round dead limbs Tightening its lusts and luxuries.

They don't understand what it is to be awake, To be living on several planes at once Though one cannot speak with several voices at once.

I was neither living nor dead, and I knew nothing

Go, go, go, said the bird: human kind Cannot bear very much reality. Time past and time future What might have been and what has been Point to one end, which is always present.

You are the consciousness of your unhappy family. Its bird sent flying through the purgatorial flame.

La llum, el recordatori visible de la llum invisible.

A poesia de um povo deriva sua vida da fala do povo e, por sua vez, dá-lhe uma vida; e representa o seu ponto mais elevado de consciência, o seu maior poder e a sua mais delicada sensibilidade.

But the circle of our understanding Is a very restricted area. Except for a limited number Of strictly practical purposes We do not know what we are doing; And even, when you think of it, We do not know much about thinking.

I not a person, in a world not of persons But only of contaminating presences.

What does that mean, 'real'? Amn't I real, you? If you cut me, do I not bleed? If you piss me off, will I not kick you up the arse?

When it falls on your head, then you are knowing it is a rock.

Cuando te cae en la cabeza, entonces te das cuenta de que es una piedra. Binabik

Every language is a vast pattern-system, different from others, in which are culturally ordained the forms and categories by which the personality not only communicates, but also analyzes nature, notices or neglects types of relationship and phenomena, channels his reasoning, and builds the house of his consciousness.

Fear is a good thing. It mean you're paying attention.

To breathe was patently an act of will, each time more was taken than was needed, and yet found to be inadequate.

You must live every moment of your life in such a way that if you had to live it over and over again till infinity, this would be a good thing.

The desire for stimulants following hard on the heels of sentience

No, not ten, not seconds, everything's different there, space slips away, and time collapses sideways like a ragged wave, and everything spins, spins like a top: there, one second is huge, slow, and resonant, like an abandoned cathedral, another is tiny, sharp, fast--you strike a match and burn up a thousand millennia; a step to the side--and you're in another universe....

You are not your mind. You are not your body. You are not even your beliefs-these are only of this world, mere flesh and blood and a few electrochemical reactions. You, my friend, are far greater than this. Be still and know, not with your mind, but with that which is beyond your mind. Are these words true to you?

To know. Not to know about.

We're far more than just physical beings having a spiritual experience. We're spiritual beings having a temporary physical experience.