Consciousness Quotes

"A lot of people can't remember things because they weren't actually there to begin with. It's like housewives who say they can't remember their first orgasm. Of course they can't - they weren't there at the time." "The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated" "No one is more enslaved than a slave who doesn't think they're enslaved" "The closer you are to death, the more alive you feel." "None but ourselves can free our minds." "Be here now." "Remember, we are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are so deeply interconnected with one another." "Reality is as thin as paper" "I am not a human being" "Control of consciousness determines the quality of life." "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?" "The smallest thought could not exist unless the entire universe and the laws of physics were in some way encouraging it." "Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate." "Reality is that which exists when we stop believing in it." "We're here to awaken from the illusion of separateness" "Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity" "The task of adulthood is to continue the work of creating order in consciousness" "Flow is the way people describe their state of mind when consciousness is harmoniously ordered, and they want to pursue whatever they are doing for its own sake" "The production of ideas of conceptions of consciousness is at first directly interwoven with the material activity and the material intercourse of men the language of real life" "Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it."