Quotes About Consciousness

Knowledge is more widely disseminated and freely available than ever before, making it much easier for people to operate at higher levels of consciousness in their work and consequently to be more productive.

We perceive consciousness as the highest manifestation of life. The higher the form of consciousness, the more advanced the form of life.

To live consciously, I need to be sensitive to these distinctions. What I perceive, what I interpret it to mean, and how I feel about it are three separate questions. If I do not distinguish among them, my grounding in reality becomes the first casualty.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream : it may be so at the moment after death.

Truth often finds its way to the mind close muffled in robes of sleep, and then speaks with uncompromising directness of matters in regard to which we practise an unconscious self-deception during our waking moments.

It might be that he lived a more real life within his thoughts...

On such a Sabbath morn, were we pure enough to be its medium, we should be conscious of the earth's natural worship ascending through our frames, on whatever spot of ground we stood.

But, nevertheless, it is anything but agreeable to be haunted by a suspicion that one's intellect is dwindling away, or exhaling, without your consciousness, like ether out of a phial: so that, at every glance, you find a smaller and less volatile residuum.

Yes! - these were her realities - all else had vanished!

The subject had reference to secret sin and those sad mysteries which we hide from our nearest and dearest, and would fain conceal from our own consciousness, even forgetting that the Omniscient can detect them.

Mysticism is the function of a mind looking for alternatives to reality.

We are actually fourth dimensional beings in a third dimensional body inhabiting a second dimensional world!

Whether consciousness is implanted in us by something divine, or whether it is created by the efforts of our brains, the end result is the same. We are.

I don't know what happens to our consciousness when we're unwound, says Connor. I don't even know when that consciousness starts. But I do know this. He pauses to make sure all of them are listening. We have a right to our lives! The kids go wild. We have a right to choose what happens to our bodies! The cheers reach fever pitch. We deserve a world where both those things are possible— and it's our job to help make that world.

In this world, there is a fine line between enlightenment and brain damage.

And perhaps you can sense, in some small twisting loop of your gut, the convergence of the wrong, of the right, and of the woefully misguided. If you do, then pay sharp attention to the moment you wake, and the moment you fall asleep...For maybe then you will know, without a shadow of a doubt, which is which.

I was using, I tell her. And God was my drug dealer. She doesn't get it. Tripping on my own brain chemicals. The dope I was doing was already inside.

But we can't choose what we forget. The more we try to forget something, the more we end up remembering it.

It is the nature of life to fear its own end. This is how I know that we are truly alive.

Do we exist because others perceive our existence, or is, indeed, our own affirmation enough?

If every part of you is alive but inside someone else . . . are you alive or are you dead?

A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

It's not about stupidity, or even rebellion-it's about feeling life.

I'd never want a piece of someone else's brain, Kele had said. I mean, you don't know where it's been.