“The moment you start watching your thoughts, a higher level of consciousness becomes activated.”— Eckhart Tolle, twitter.com
“The resistance of the conscious mind to the unconscious and the depreciation of the latter were historical necessities in the development of the human psyche, for otherwise the conscious mind would never have been able to differentiate itself at all. But modern man’s consciousness has strayed rather…”— Carl Jung, amazon.com
“If drugs really numb your consciousness, they'd be a good thing. As it was, they slowed you down, confused you, kept you vulnerable to violent flashes of recall, and then agitated you and made you unsure of what you knew and didn't know.”— Anne Rice, amazon.com
“Creativity is the state of consciousness in which you enter into the treasury of your innermost being and bring the beauty into manifestation.”— Torkom Saraydarian, amazon.com
“I have come to think of so much of consciousness as a burden, a weight, and we have spared them that.”— Halley Wegryn Gross, Jonathan Nolan, Dr. Robert Ford, Anthony Hopkins, imdb.com
“Like too much alcohol,self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves - mental and material, controlling and controlled, reflective and spontaneous. Thus instead of suffering we suffer about suffering, and suffer about suffering about suffering.”— Alan Watts, amazon.com
“To remain stable is to refrain from trying to separate yourself from a pain because you know that you cannot. Running away from fear is fear, fighting pain is pain, trying to be brave is being scared. If the mind is in pain, the mind is pain. The thinker has no other form than his thought. There is…”— Alan Watts, amazon.com
“Happiness is something that we have to consciously choose; otherwise we'd create the reality that we subconsciously think we deserve.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“You're seeing issues you struggled with as a kid reappear in your adult life, and while on the surface this may seem like a matter of not having overcome them, it really means you are becoming conscious of why you think and feel so you can change it.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“Who can live with this Consciousness and not wake frightened at sunrise?”— Allen Ginsberg, amazon.com
“An argument for consciousness, the instinct of the blind insect, who makes love to the flower bed and dies in the first freeze.”— Bright Eyes, play.spotify.com
“The secret—the secret of the man himself and of his success with the Times as well—is that Mr. O as crowd-consciousness. He with a newspaper, is like an orator. Both of them address a crowd, with an understanding of its emotions, or rather, with a likeness of emotions, and as the orator and the crow…”— Garet Garrett, amazon.com
“DMT reproduces many of the features of an enlightenment experience, including timelessness; ineffability; coexistence of opposites; contact and merging with a supremely powerful, wise, and loving presence, sometimes experienced as a white light; the certainty that consciousness continues after death…”— Rick Strassman, amazon.com
“One of the unique things about the human brain is that it can do only what it thinks it can do.”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com
“People are doing the best that they can from their own level of consciousness.”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com
“Weariness comes at the end of the acts of a mechanical life, but at the same time it inaugurates the impulse of consciousness. It awakens consciousness and provokes what follows. What follows is the gradual return into the chain or it is the definitive awakening. At the end of the awakening comes, i…”— Albert Camus, amazon.com