Quotes about Consciousness

It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self — never to be fully possessed by the glory we behold, never to have our consciousness rapturously transformed into the vividness of a thought, the ardor of a passion, the energy of an action, but always to be scholarly and uninspired, ambitious and timid, scrupulous and dim-sighted. Becoming

She did not want to deck herself with knowledge—to wear it loose from the nerves and blood that fed her action

I wonder how many decisions we make every day. I believe it's probably hundreds. We decide whether or not to get out of bed, what we'll eat, what we'll do, what we'll think about, what we'll say... and on and on.

All our words and acts are passing in review before God.

It is not our body which feels, not our mind which thinks, but we, as single human beings, who both feel and think.

It sometimes happens and will sometimes happen again that I forget who I am and strut before my eyes, like a stranger.

If I was dead, I wouldn't know I was dead. That's the only thing I have against death. I want to enjoy my death.

Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Well, sir, if things are real, they're there all the time." "Are they?" said the Professor; and Peter did not quite know what to say.

Space and time are "sensed" not seen. They are created in consciousness which is spaceless and timeless.

Although we think that we think, most of the time we are being thought by the collective mind, the hypnosis of conditioning.

Limit time to the present. Meditate upon your last hour.