Quotes About Consciousness

Breathing in, I know I am breathing in. Breathing out, I know I am breathing out.

Mindfulness is the energy that allows us to recognize our habit energy and prevent it from dominating us.

As the blade of a sword cannot cut itself, so a thought cannot see itself.

Whether or not one is alive depends on whether one is mindful.

Thich Nhat Hanh

According to Buddhism, consciousness is like a field with every possible kind of seed in it: seeds of love, compassion, joy, and equanimity; seeds of anger, fear, and anxiety; and seeds of mindfulness. Consciousness is the storehouse that contains all these seeds, all the possibilities of what might arise in your mind.

Your bodily form is not you. Be at one with life. Live eternally in the trees and grass, in other people, in the birds and other beasts, in the sky, in the ocean waves. Your skeleton is only one part of you. You are present everywhere and in every moment. You are not only a bodily form, or even feelings, thoughts, actions, and knowledge.

out. Bring your awareness to the different parts of your body in turn, and allow them to relax.

mindfulness means reclaiming attention

I don't keep a journal.

Marianne Williamson

It is joyous for any actor to enter other grounds of consciousness and thought. At the end of the day, we just all like dressing up and playing around.

That's such a common saying: Just be present, live in the moment. But there's actually really something to it when you really start to learn it.

Don't think too hard. Just be present, and things will reveal themselves.

There is something fundamentally fascinating about the mechanics, I guess, of the human body and where consciousness and mind exist, and what you can do with the mechanics of the body while keeping those intact, and where those two cross over.

Getting choked out feels a lot better than getting knocked out.

Alcohol is a class of drugs that we call 'the sedatives.' And what you're doing is just knocking your brain out. You're not putting it into natural sleep.

You only know what you know.

The work is flowing from an inner knowing of how things really are.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Light knows when you're looking at it.

Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.

You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?

I am an aware citizen, so I want my characters to be aware, too. They should be aware of what's happening in the society and make a commentary. They're not in a la la land.