Quotes About Consciousness

I don't think about the characters I choose to play, analytically or consciously.

Not taking those few moments in the morning to decide what you're saying to people by how you're choosing to dress is a lost opportunity.

We should definitely be more careful about the things that we chose to do with our lives.

We just have to be careful of our actions as world citizens.

When I go to the supermarket, I can see people looking in my cart. So I have to be careful what I buy and when. I send my sister to Costco to pick up the personal items.

If you go and stop people at a supermarket and ask them for their receipt and say, 'Hey how much did you just spend?' middle class shoppers have no idea. The poor know what they just spent.

Christianity is, I believe, about expanded life, heightened consciousness and achieving a new humanity. It is not about closed minds, supernatural interventions, a fallen creation, guilt, original sin or divine rescue.

Do I believe in the supernatural? Oh yes, certainly. I can't believe, I can't accept that you die and that's the end. Physically maybe it is a fact. But there's something about the mind that's more than that.

We have to be very conscious of the fact that beneath every illness is a prohibition. A prohibition that comes from a superstition.

One lesson I got from Gandhi, 'Be the change you want to see,' haunts me. I just feel like I can't keep stomping around pointing the finger at BP when I am supporting the oil industry with my very own dollars and actions by buying their products, helping to pay their mortgage - plastic is from oil... polyester, shower curtains.

When you pay for something, it's not just buying something from the store. You are actually supporting the political and economic structures that provide you with that good.

I'm not supporting any companies that cause harm to animals.

A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no effort of recollection is able to call it back again into consciousness.

I suppose it's a very highly developed form of denial, but some part of me completely denies that I'm a performer.

My father thought Gandhi was a great man. I suppose subconsciously, consciously even, I was aware that I wanted to please him and Ma, so I thought doing something like 'Gandhi' would be phenomenal.

I've known for years that you're supposed to be present. I know that thinking about what's happened or thinking about what I want is not going to get me anywhere, but until I quit doing it I'm not present.

When I see somebody in a Prius, sure, you drive a Prius and you get good gas mileage, but you probably feel like you drive a Prius.

Full surely there is a blessedness beyond the grave for those who have already entered on it here, and in no other form than that wherein they know it here, at any moment.

Consciousness surely does not depend on language. Babies, many animals, and patients robbed of speech by brain damage are not insensate robots; they have reactions like ours that indicate that someone's home.

If people learned what they were contributing to every time they ate meat, eggs, or dairy, surely they would be just as motivated as I was to change.

It struck me deep in my mind. Some day, the chip is going to surpass mankind's brain.

Would it be a surprise if entrepreneurs recoil at the thought of consciously courting any person who has more power and money than they have?

My biggest surprises in my everyday job have to do with the challenges of trying to be slightly more responsible as a brand.

I don't know why, but even my nighttime dreams are very, very rooted in reality. They just start to become surreal, little by little. That exact moment when you're about to realize that this might be a dream is my favorite thing.