Your mind creates everything. Your conscious mind has much greater power than you can ever imagine. Your mind can create blessings or disasters, can heal or harm, can bring abundance or absence. It is up to your mind whether the world looks hopeful or hopeless.
Because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, How alive am I willing to be?
We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness.
People are so used to having their lives filmed, they're not even conscious of having cameras around. I still have that sort of suspicion when a camera comes out. I view it as a thing to fear.
The more conscious we become the more consciously we choose that which we set in motion to create.
Conscious writing can be the death of poetry.
I'm always making a conscious effort to be viable and accessible.
Loneliness is, I think, people's biggest fear, whether they are conscious of it or not.
Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.
Learn to nurture and trust your instincts as well as your conscious reasoning. Often, one's instincts will offer the better judgment.
I'm not that fashion-conscious. A lot of times, when women are appearing to be so perfect, it's because they're a mess underneath.
I was with this girl the other night and from the way she was responding to my skillful caresses, you would have sworn that she was conscious from the top of her head to the tag on her toes.
I'm very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn't choose.
Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement.
Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity. The activity of the intuition consists in making spontaneous judgements which are not the result of conscious trains of reasoning. . . The exercise of ingenuity in mathematics consists in aiding the intuition through suitable arrangements of propositions, and perhaps geometrical figures or drawings.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
I would agree on the aging thing. Because, at a certain point, once you start noticing it, it is your subject. And I know young that people, when they get to 30, say, "Oh, I'm so old. " But actually, around 50, you do become conscious of it.
Spiritual master is representative of God. Similarly, king is also representative of God. The father is also representative of God. These are the statements of the sastras. Because they will guide. The king will guide. The spiritual master will guide. The father will guide. What is that guidance? That guidance is how one can become Krishna Conscious by education, by culture.
Anytime you have a female protagonist, it's going to turn into some feminist angle, and it's not a conscious thing on my part. It's only recently that that's been pointed out by the media. . . or pointed out by fans. I also find complicated, flawed characters interesting. What's the opposite? To play one-dimensional, boring failures?
I made a conscious effort to make a record that would affect people in a good way rather than the last one, which affected people in a bad way.