When I started thinking about it, I was like, 'OK, if throughout time I get labeled as a conscious artist, I'll be very much celebrated, in a way, and honored.'
As always, with acting, you can't be too self-conscious. You shouldn't care about what people are thinking about you at the time because they're not caring about you, they're caring about the character.
We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth, but as highly powerful, conscious stewards: The Earth is given to us in trust, and we can screw it up or make it work well and sustainably.
It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate Essence, that mainly rests the belief or unbelief in the existence around us of other conscious beings besides the Spirits of the Dead.
When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.
Modern science tells us that the conscious self arises from a purely physical brain. We do not have immaterial souls.
The joy of songwriting only gets messed up if you are trying to follow up a big success, or you are trying to create a hit single, or if you have conscious thoughts of a particular outcome for the music.
I think sex appeal is something that's fun. But I'd guess any man with any conscious consideration or understanding of his own sex appeal is one of the least sexy men you might meet.
Those truly committed to liberation must reject the banking concept in its entirety, adopting instead a concept of women and men as conscious beings and consciousness as consciousness intent upon the world.
I try to stay in line and not be a jerk. I've always been conscious that if I really screw up, people might notice.
I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.
The greatest impediments to changes in our traditional roles seem to lie not in the visible world of conscious intent, but in the murky realm of the unconscious mind.
There is nothing wrong with you... Life isn't supposed to be easy... It is designed to be challenging so that you will grow into a more conscious, loving human being.
All day long the door of the sub-conscious remains just ajar; we slip through to the other side, and return again, as easily and secretly as a cat.
Now, there are a very large number of bodily movements, having their source in our nervous system, that do not possess the character of conscious actions.
It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
Make every effort to hear directly from God.
We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.
To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts.
