Quotes About Consciousness

Life punishes us for forgetting when we should remember, sleeping when we should be awake. As we sleep – a metaphor for unconscious living and lack of awareness – black snakes of negative, hurtful thoughts and feelings slither into our bodies and our brains, multiply due to our lack of attention, and wreak havoc with our peace. Looking at it another way, we all house black snakes in our bodies and minds that only suffering can bring to consciousness and expel.

Reality depends upon your mind alone.[34] If your mind is not at peace what use are riches?

Reality depends upon your mind alone.[34]

The negative turned positive, black misery sublimated into heightened consciousness, suffering into solidarity!

One can live the whole of his life within it. It is way to accessing the whole of one's genius. It is the way to unending peace. It is the holy grail of human existence.

You've always been told to fight for your freedom Of mind. But the truth is this: the greatest freedom in the world is freedom From mind.

Life does not happen around you. It is not a chronology of events. Perceiving life in this way keeps you on the edge of life. Ask yourself: What does it mean to LIVE? And you will discover that you've never really LIVED at all. Life is to be tasted. Drink it. Immerse yourself in it. And experience it for the very first time.

You experience them intimately. Without the intermediary known as thought.

If you think about something as you are looking at it, you will not have truly seen it. Thought stands as a barrier between You and The Experience.

was initially happy, then with the onset of consciousness unhappy, then with the advent of adolescence wretchedly miserable, and finally, in the last throws of my domestic incarceration, convinced I was born in the wrong place and had to escape at all cost. In other words, an ordinary childhood followed by an ordinary adolescence,

I was initially happy, then with the onset of consciousness unhappy, then with the advent of adolescence wretchedly miserable, and finally, in the last throws of my domestic incarceration, convinced I was born in the wrong place and had to escape at all cost. In other words, an ordinary childhood followed by an ordinary adolescence,

The most deluded people are those who choose to ignore what they already know.

An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.

In fiction, you don't invent the events. What is imaginative about it is the consciousness: how you think about the events and how you present them. And that changes the nature of everything, and that is the attraction of writing fiction.

My consciousness is a process, and that includes my relationship with my husband. His being white doesn't make me any less black or invested in black issues, the same way him being a man doesn't make me any less of a feminist.

I'm always looking for things that are so incredibly present that they become invisible.

I think it's nice to let people know that there is an invisible part of the world. I think there are many people now who are interested in the invisible world.

I'll be very careful about what kind of energy I'm inviting into my life and whether it's going to be helpful for me or help me evolve as a person.

The most difficult story that I've ever been involved in breaking on any of my shows was 'The Constant' episode of 'Lost,' which was when Desmond was consciousness-traveling.

iphone therefore I am.

If you don't attend to something, you can't be aware of it. But ironically, you can attend to something without being aware of it.

Has feminism made us all more conscious? I think it has. Feminist critiques of anthropological masculine bias have been quite important, and they have increased my sensitivity to that kind of issue.

Italians are very conscious of what they eat, how they eat, and its digestion.

I've always wanted people to know who they are from the inside. Then they can create the life they desire and deserve. I've always believed that my job was to facilitate the evolution of the human consciousness.