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Quotes About Awareness

Maybe I'll just sit here parked for a while, he decided, and alpha meditate or go into various different altered states of consciousness.
~ Philip K. Dick
Mental illness is not funny.
~ Philip K. Dick
They see through the here, the now, into the vast black deep beyond, the unchanging. And that is fatal to life. Because eventually there will be no life;
~ Philip K. Dick
Life which we can no longer distinguish; life carefully buried up to its forehead in the carcass of a dead world. In every cinder of the universe Mercer probably perceives inconspicuous life. Now I know, he thought. And once having seen through Mercer's eyes, I probably will never stop.
~ Philip K. Dick
Don't you feel it?" he kidded her. "The historicity?
~ Philip K. Dick
If you or I ever really accepted the moral responsibility for what we've done in our lifetime—we'd drop dead or go mad. Living creatures weren't made to understand what they do.
~ Philip K. Dick
Insane people -- psychologically defined, not legally define -- are not in touch with reality.
~ Philip K. Dick
Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally. Waking up. I suppose only a few are aware of all this. Isolated persons here and there. But the broad masses . . . what do they think?
~ Philip K. Dick
I see,' Rick said. He felt numb. Completely. Throughout his entire body.
~ Philip K. Dick
A paranoiac, my friend, is a person who has gone crazy in the most intelligent, well-informed way, the world being what it is. The paranoiac believes that great secret conspiracies are afoot to destroy him.
~ Philip K. Dick
Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally. Waking up. I
~ Philip K. Dick
The rule of survival, he thought. Keep eye peeled regarding situation around you. Learn its demands. And- meet them. Be there at the right time doing the right thing.
~ Philip K. Dick
But reality cannot be ignored; we must grow up.
~ Philip K. Dick
Die Güte, but not good men, this good man. It is their sense of space and time. They see through the here, the now, into the vast black deep beyond, the unchanging. And that is fatal to life.
~ Philip K. Dick
Reality is that which when you stop believing in it, it doesn't go away.
~ Philip K. Dick
One constant has prevailed, though, throughout all theories. There must indeed be a mysterious Holy Spirit which has an exact and intimate relation to Christ, which can indwell in human minds, guide and inform them, and even express itself through those humans, even without their awareness.
~ Philip K. Dick
Everyone dwelt in it without realizing it. The Black Iron Prison was their world.
~ Philip K. Dick
GOD IS NO WHERE GOD IS NOW HERE
~ Philip K. Dick
He thought, We will miss Roberta Rockingham when she dies; of us, she is the most benign and stable. Because, he realized, she knows she is soon going to die.
~ Philip K. Dick
Let it be said that one of the first symptoms of psychosis is that the person feels perhaps he is becoming psychotic.
~ Philip K. Dick
The sane man does not know that everything is possible. In other words, the mentally ill person at one time or another knew too much. And, as a result, so to speak, his head shut down.
~ Philip K. Dick
The tyranny of an object, he thought. It doesn't know I exist. Like the androids, it had no ability to appreciate the existence of another.
~ Philip K. Dick
You will manually feel this object with your left hand," he said to himself, "and at the same time you will look at it with your right. And then in your own words you will tell us—" He could not think out any more nonsense. Not without their help.
~ Philip K. Dick
Recordó que en su infancia había alcanzado a comprobar la extinción de una especie tras otra. Los periódicos anunciaban un día la desaparición de los zorros, el siguiente la de los tejones, hasta que la g ente dejó por último de leer aquellos perpetuos obituarios.
~ Philip K. Dick