Quotes About Consciousness

I do not understand why people want to control their minds. I want them to liberate their minds.

My life is really precious. I don't want to spend it watching ambient TV that just drifts through you. I've got better things to do.

I think this show I'm going to do,' Awake,' if it's done well, will not only be provocative and entertaining, but help people. I want to do that.

Why is the mind incapable of deciding its own subject matter? Why when we desperately want to think of one thing to we invariably think of another?

We believe what we want to, what we need to. The corollary is that we choose not to see what we'd rather pretend doesn't exist.

You really, really have to care about animals to want to kill one. You have to learn all this stuff about them and start thinking like them.

The universe is biased toward consciousness because the universe wants to be noticed. It's a way into existential hope that doesn't have too much cliché wrapped around it.

Yes. I tried to use the same technique with you. I didn't want to pass out.

Creating the world we want is a much more subtle but more powerful mode of operation than destroying the one we don't want.

It's very hard to say I'm surrealist. It's like saying I'm poetic. It's not something you want necessarily to be aware of.

You need to wake up if you want to dream.

I'm just trying to wake up - I'm so afraid of sleeping all my life and then dying - I want to wake up first. I wouldn't care if it was just for an hour, as long as I was properly alive and awake.

The disciple is not hankering for knowledge; he wants to see, not to know. He wants to be. He is no longer interested in having more knowledge; he wants to have more being.

Create your day in advance by thinking the way you want it to go, and you will create your life intentionally.

It's difficult to change, because I have to admit that I have been previously living in a less compassionate and loving way. Sometimes we just want to be right instead of fully conscious.

Keep one goal only and that is 'to know thy Self [Soul]'. Do not be insistent about 'I want to do this and do that'. Whatever happens, at whatever time, is correct.

Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.

It is not only war that can stop war but men of goodwill, conscious of their mission can deal with such deadly enemy.

The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself.

Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.

This war is not necessary. We are truly sleepwalking through history.

The final war will be between Pavlov's dog and Schoedinger's Cat.

Would a CONSCIOUS human being destroy himself through war, and crime, and quarrels? No, a man simply knows not what he does to himself.

The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.