Quotes About Consciousness

On the occasions that he did look up from the page, he would seem as though he were awakening from a dream.

It's the mind. It's the most complex and astonishing thing there is, that there's a world inside each of us that no one else can ever know or see or visit.

There was only present, and it was infinite. The past and the future were just blinders we wore so that infinity wouldn't drive us mad.

Her mind was still tiptoeing along the boundary of consciousness, in that state of semi-waking that spins threads between dream and real, and for a moment she felt herself to be a girl who has come down off a porch to confront a great darkness with a tiny light.

We are alive and in the same world

Her soul felt alive more than ever before. Sarai almost forget that she wasn't.

Everything else in Lazlo's mind took a step back to clear space for this new intelligence.

It is a condition of monsters that they do not perceive themselves as such »

It is a condition of monsters that they do not see themselves as such.

Every mind is its own world. Most occupy a vast middle ground of ordinary, while others are more distinct: pleasant, even beautiful, or sometimes slippery and unaccountably wrong-feeling.

There was only the present, and it was infinite. The past and the future were just blinders we wore so that infinity wouldn't drive us mad.

We all have spiritual DNA; wisdom and truth are part of our genetic structure even if we don't always access it.

Don't think about Buddhist terminology; don't think about what the books say or anything like that. Just ask yourself simply, "How, at this moment, do I interpret myself?" That's all.

What is the mind? It is a phenomenon that is not body, not substantial, has no form, no shape, no color, but, like a mirror, can clearly reflect objects

This is the most exciting part of being human. It is using our brains in the highest way. Otherwise we are just healthy animals.

Everyone is more than one thing," said Kieran. "We are more than single actions we undertake, whether they be good or evil.

Stripping the protection wards off the ship was bad enough—it's a strong, strong enchantment, demon-based—but when you fell, I had to put a fast spell on the truck so it wouldn't sink when I lost consciousness. And I will lose consciousness, Alec.

the less you had, the more careful you had to be about everything you did have.

Magnus: All dreams end when you wake.

It can be... difficult to to learn how the world truly is, to see it in its true shape and form... most human beings never do. Most could not bear it.

Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That's not what life's about. If you starve yourself to the point where your brain cells shrivel, you will never do good work. And if you're overly conscious of your arms flapping in the wind, how can you look the other actor in the eye to respond to them?

I think with my blood.

Being good is something that one must choose over and over again, every day, throughout the day, for the rest of one's life," Asher said. "A day is made of a thousand decisions, most small, some huge. With each decision you have the chance to work toward light, or sink toward darkness.

O sentimento de culpa é algo de terrível que nos aflige em todos os momentos em que estamos acordados e nos persegue durante os sonhos.