Consciousness Quotes
Alcohol make you drunk, man. It don't make you meditate, it just make you drunk. Herb is more a consciousness.
Religion is consciousness-raising. It raises you higher than the problem, it gives you a bird's-eye view.
Today, it is more important than ever to raise human consciousness, so that technology becomes a means of empowerment, not destruction.
You think, you become that thought. And consciousness, or the state of pure awareness, is lost.
A genuinely fundamental and hopeful improvement in "systems" cannot happen without a significant shift in human consciousness.
Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
There seems to be no unexpressed self in animals, as if they are as fully themselves in flesh as possible, with no lag of consciousness to fill up, while we keep trying to grow into something else.
Most of my bits are long stream-of-consciousness- type things, and when I'm doing them onstage, other places to take the theme or idea will hit me, and I just go with it.
The pleasure a man of honor enjoys in the consciousness of having performed his duty is a reward he pays himself for all his pains.
Though I know consciousness kind of boxes you in, it still encompasses the artists that I knew were conscious throughout history of music - they're the ones that you look at as the legends.
My own self-consciousness cries out to me coldly: how does one love zero?
You are the vanguard of knowledge and consciousness; a new wave in a vast ocean of possibilities.
We're receiving information from all the planes of our consciousness all the time, but we don't acknowledge their existence; we treat the information as static, as noise.
The Republican consciousness has no integrity and it falls apart once you check it out. If you're a Christian, why would you want to fry this dude?
Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active, ongoing nihilist self-consciousness in the artist.
Whether you call someone a hero or a monster is all relative to where the focus of your consciousness may be.
We're all affected by music. It has the power to inspire, uplift us, change our moods, and even alter consciousness.
If you put yourself in a position where you have to stretch outside your comfort zone, then you are forced to expand your consciousness.
We are here to bring to consciousness the beauty and power that are around us and to praise the people who are here with us.
You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.
There is not enough self-consciousness about what a family can be, about what it can inherit from forbearers, and what new traditions it can start as a contributor to the community.
There is a celestial mind-force, a great sympathetic force which is life itself, of which everything is composed.
in the presence of extraordinary actuality, consciousness takes the place of imagination.
Why may we not be in the universe, as our dogs and cats are in our drawingrooms and libraries?
One of the major differences I see in the political climate today is that there is less collective support for coming to critical consciousness – in communities, in institutions, among friends.
Compassion is the signature of Higher Consciousness. Non-violence is the tool to evolve into the Higher Consciousness.
Eat with consciousness. When you eat with consciousness, and you know what you're eating, and you eat it in full appreciation of what it is, it's enormously satisfying.
There needs to be a shift in consciousness; there needs to be an absolute wake-up call before society can actually make the kind of incredibly significant changes that need to happen.
The words dripped on my consciousness, sank into my being, and carried me away to the magic long ago of once upon a time.
Control over consciousness cannot be institutionaliz ed. As soon as it becomes part of a set of social rules and norms, it ceases to be effective in the way it was originally intended to be.
Whatever the dictates of fashion, it seems that those who take the trouble to gain mastery over what happens in consciousness do lead a happier life.
The picture must all come out of the artist's inside, awareness of forms and figures... It is more than memory. It is the image as it lives in the consciousness, alive like a vision, but unknown.
To believe something strongly when it is clearly hard to define and prove, and has not been proven, is to be prejudiced.
An artist paints, dances, draws, writes, designs, or acts at the expanding edge of consciousness. We press into the unknown rather than the known. This makes life lovely and lively.
For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human form of consciousness I simply cannot tell.
The reason why the simpler sort are moved by authority is the consciousness of their own ignorance
It is not the job of art to mirror. Images reflected in a mirror appear to us in reverse. An artist's responsibility is to reveal consciousness; to produce a human document.
There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and the brain.
Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.
I think that we are supernatural. We are unique. We're the only animals in the universe that we know of that actually have self-consciousness, a sense of time and our own mortality.