Quotes About Consciousness

Both personal experience and professional studies of social processes, after all, had led me to think that people rarely accomplish exactly what they consciously plan, and constantly find events unrolling differently from what they anticipated. Why, then, do people's descriptions and explanations of social processes overwhelmingly emphasize conscious deliberation?

Arrange your unutterable alphabet, my man, / and hold tight. / It's all you've got, a naming of things, and not so beautiful.

Compare this to any mess written by Charlie Kaufman.

The only moment that we exist is the moment we inhabit.

consciousness is a terrible curse. I think. I feel. I suffer.

That's essentially what Zen practice is about: functioning from moment to moment.

Awareness is our true self; it's what we are.

There is no coincidences. Every event we experience and every person we meet has intentionally been put in our path to help raise our level of consciousness.

That we are surrounded by deep mysteries is known to all but the incurably ignorant.

Those who slip into this illusion ignore the signs of impending disaster. The physical degradation of the planet, the cruelty of global capitalism, the looming oil crisis, the collapse of financial markets, and the danger of overpopulation rarely impinge to prick the illusions that warp our consciousness,.

We try to see ourselves moving through our life as a camera would see us, mindful of how we hold ourselves, how we dress, what we say. We invent movies that play inside our heads. We imagine ourselves the main characters. We imagine how an audience would react to each event in the movie of our life.

Capitalist states seek to keep workers unconscious, Gramsci wrote, because no worker under a capitalist system will ever receive the full amount for his or her labor. This would destroy capitalism. Any worker who truly understood his or her interests would be dedicated to the overthrow of capitalism.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

You know when civilization began? With the invention of the mirror.

I realize I'm a mirror.

I avoid looking in the mirror.

I don't like catching myself in the mirror because it's like, 'Oh, self.'

What I enjoy the most about 'Insecure' is it holds up a mirror to real life. If you're paying attention and you're watching consciously, you are able to make better decisions about who you are, the people that are around you.

I've always thought there was something very marvelous and magical about mirrors, and that they are connected to memory as well.

I try to avoid mirrors.

I find to my mixed astonishment that I do dream, but I didn't know it.

Our minds aren't bound by a chronological corset. When thinking and dreaming, past, present and future are mixed up. That's also possible for a writer.

Before 'AEnima,' we were just following our gut. There was a lot of anger in the air and we never tried to control that. But just as we mature as humans, with 'AEnima' we tried to be fueled more by spiritual ideas or more of a conscious mode of aiming things in the right place or trying to take more responsibility for our art.

What is consciousness? Our brain simulates reality. So, our everyday experiences are a form of dreaming, which is to say, they are mental models, simulations, not the things they appear to be.