“Film has dream, film has music. No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.”— Ingmar Bergman, amazon.com
“Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web, of the finest silken threads, suspended in the chamber of consciousness and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.”— Henry James, amazon.com
“Consciousness is unquantifiable, a ghost in the machine, barely considered real at all, though in a sense this flickering mosaic of awareness is the only true reality that we can ever know.”— Alan Moore, en.wikiquote.org
“Mind has come up with this brilliant way of looking at the world — science — but it can’t look at itself. Science has no place for the mind. The whole of our science is based upon empirical, repeatable experiments. Whereas thought is not in that category, you can’t take thought into a laboratory. Th…”— Alan Moore, en.wikiquote.org
“Life is a vexatious trap; when a thinking man reaches maturity and attains to full consciousness he cannot help feeling that he is in a trap from which there is no escape.”— Anton Chekhov, amazon.com
“If you want to change the way people respond to you, change the way you respond to people.”— Timothy Leary, en.wikiquote.org
“I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both.”— Robert Louis Stevenson, amazon.com
“Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.”— Thomas Szasz, whatsupatupstate.wordpress.com
“Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.”— Eckhart Tolle, eckharttollenow.com
“I am conscious about myself and everything, and then suddenly, or slowly, my conscious fades out. Switches off. And it’s not existing, and that’s a marvelous feeling. That from existing, I am not existing. And at that moment, nothing can happen to me.”— Ingmar Bergman, youtu.be
“Although I am a typical loner in daily life, my consciousness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has preserved me from feeling isolated.”— Albert Einstein, einstein-website.de
“I really hate being self-conscious – and being conscious of being self-conscious.”— Natalie Portman, natalieportman.com
“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”— C. G. Jung, amazon.com
“To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive - to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well as to joy, fulfillment, and an intensity of consciousness we did not know was possible before.”— Rollo May, amazon.com
“We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else’s mind.”— Anna Quindlen, amazon.com
“And I realize that no matter where I am, whether in a little room full of thought, or in this endless universe of stars and mountains, it’s all in my mind.”— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com
“Every time you create a gap in the stream of mind, the light of consciousness grows strong.”— Eckhart Tolle, twitter.com