Consciousness Quotes

It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one’s germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness!

In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness.

You can experience consciousness now by experiencing the fact that you exist.

When the genuine myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life.

The history of human consciousness is marked by the battle between the old awareness.

You think, you become that thought. And consciousness, or the state of pure awareness, is lost.

I don’t believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.

My thoughts went round and round and it occurred to me that if I ever wrote a novel it would be of the ‘stream of consciousness’ type and deal with an hour in the life of a woman at the sink.

Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.

Beware of him who promises something for nothing. Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures. Do not look for approval except the consciousness of doing your best.