I’ve already become a mastodon in print – I don’t see a consciousness for my kind of journalism.

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate – not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all.

With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms.

No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.

Our minds work in real time, which begins at the Big Bang and will end, if there is a Big Crunch – which seems unlikely, now, from the latest data showing accelerating expansion. Consciousness would come to an end at a singularity.

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.

Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.

Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.

I’m very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn’t choose.

I need one of those baby monitors from my subconscious to my consciousness so I can know what the hell I’m really thinking about.

Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

Journalism keeps you planted in the earth.

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.

I think the brain is essentially a computer and consciousness is like a computer program. It will cease to run when the computer is turned off. Theoretically, it could be re-created on a neural network, but that would be very difficult, as it would require all one’s memories.

I don’t think there’s a… boundary between digital media and print media. Every magazine is doing an online version.

Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.

All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

We feel and know that we are eternal.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

As far as I’m concerned, it’s a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity.

What a terrible thing to have lost one’s mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.

Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.

The soul is your innermost being. The presence that you are beyond form. The consciousness that you are beyond form, that is the soul. That is who you are in essence.

Well, when you come down to it, I don’t see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?

I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

Human self-understanding changes with time, and so also human consciousness deepens.

When you take your attention into the present moment, a certain alertness arises. You become more conscious of what’s around you, but also, strangely, a sense of presence that is both within and without.

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and ‚superlive,‘ as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so.

I’m not besotted with the notion of being on CNN to the point that I’m going to suddenly morph into Anderson Cooper or Christiane Amanpour. I’m not a foreign correspondent.

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.

Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.

The major networks, the cable networks, they’re being prosecutors. They’re judges and jurors and executioners. Well, c’mon, that’s ridiculous. But they’re doing it.

Watergate had become the center of the media’s universe, and during the remaining year of my presidency the media tried to force everything else to revolve around it.

People say maybe we have a soul and chimpanzees don’t. I feel that it’s quite possible that if we have souls, chimpanzees have souls as well.

We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.

I’m interested in the dream and subconscious mind, the peculiar dream-like quality of our lives, sometime nightmare quality of our lives.

I became a journalist at 17. A few hours later, I saw my first dead body, which was somewhat… colourful. That’s when I learned you can go on throwing up after you run out of things to throw up.

You do get certain publications in the States where, if things don’t go according to plan, they flip the story and it becomes very negative.

I’m not searching for hard news; I’m not a journalist, but I’m interested in pushing to boundaries of where we can do the kind of stories that we want to do. I mean, it’s a big world and CNN has made it a lot bigger and they haven’t flinched.

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

There have only been about a half dozen genuinely important events in the four-billion-year saga of life on Earth: single-celled life, multicelled life, differentiation into plants and animals, movement of animals from water to land, and the advent of mammals and consciousness.

I’m not that keen on the idea of being unconscious.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

I love great journalism. I appreciate it. I love a good, you know, I love good news stories. I love great books. I love great articles. I appreciate them so much, and they’ve been part of my education as a woman.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

Gojira is my favorite band of all time; they’re lovely, I’ve seen them live two times. I also love Mastodon and the Refused as well.

Man’s task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

Newspaper readership is still growing in India.

My purpose is to help people look at themselves and begin to shift their concepts. Remember, we are not our country, our race, or religion. We are eternal spirits. Seeing ourselves as spiritual beings without label is a way to transform the world and reach a sacred place for all of humanity.

In 2013, the week before I dropped ‚Crenshaw,‘ ‚Complex‘ wrote an article that said that Nipsey Hussle is one of the top 25 underperforming artists. I was so offended that I responded with my own opinion about these journalists – their point of view is not validated in our culture.