Top 29 Altered State Quotes
#1. I love to think. I once considered taking drugs as an attempt to better understand an altered state of mind; however, I decided not to. I didn't want to chance ruining the machine.
Richard Feynman
#2. I can't reveal the mystery to either saint or sinner; I can't state at length what I've said curtly; I achieve an altered state that I can't explain; I have a secret that I cannot share.
Omar Khayyam
#3. It is not advisable for persons who are in the early stages of meditation to mediate on the two lower chakras. You will unleash powers and forces that will throw you into very powerful altered state of consciousness that might not be pleasant at all.
Frederick Lenz
#4. For me, being a writer is not an altered state. It's very ponderous, and very - it's like being a shoemaker.
Anne Lamott
#5. A dream isn't a wish - it's an altered state of consciousness ...
John Geddes
#6. It has always been the role of the shaman to go into an altered state of consciousness and track down where the soul fled to in the alternate realities and return it to the body of the client.
Sandra Ingerman
#7. biological, instinctual, unconscious response to threat or violation. And it can actually be the very thing that saves your life. In freezing, the human body enters an altered state in which little to no pain is experienced.
Rachael Maddox
#8. The life you live in front of an audience is like an altered state - it's not totally real. I'm always, even in the course of one day, trying to find ways to balance both sides.
Miranda July
#9. I think writers process their own experiences through the characters and situations they write. So for Batman, I used my own experience of losing a loved one. Grief is a strange place; it's like an altered state. You might sleep too much, so you can see the dead in your dreams.
Ann Nocenti
#10. What makes comet wine so good is that the water-process detaches
itself from the earth and thus brings about an altered state in the
planet.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
#11. Obviously there is pain in childbirth. But giving birth is also a moment of awe and wonder, a moment when the true miracle of aliveness, and of a woman's amazing part in that miracle, is suddenly experienced in every cell of one's body. It is in that sense truly an altered state of consciousness.
Riane Eisler
#12. What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behavior is that people would choose an altered state of consciousness that's toxic and ostensibly destroys most aspects of your normal life, because for a brief moment you feel okay.
Moby
#13. This is part of the complexity of grief: A piece of you recognizes it is an extreme state, an altered state, yet a large part of you is entirely subject to its demands.
Meghan O'Rourke
#15. You want the truth? Those two years you could have ended your life, but you didn't because you wanted to live. You weren't looking for a way out, Jay. You were looking for a way back in.
Nicole Reed
#16. Develop and maintain momentum by working continuously toward your sales goals every day.
Brian Tracy
#17. If you ever look sideways at another man or attempt to refuse me I shall beat you. Got it?
Margaret Way
#18. I have learned that the state of Israel cannot be ruled in our generation without deceit and adventurism. These are historical facts that cannot be altered.
Moshe Sharett
#19. As long as I'm acting and doing what I love, I'll be happy.
Matthew Lewis
#21. The English expression 'to fall asleep' is apt because the transition between waking and sleeping is a gradual drop from one state of being into another: a giving up of full self-consciousness for unconsciousness or for the altered consciousness of dreams.
Siri Hustvedt
#22. When energy is profoundly dissipated, the ability to think is clearly eroded, and the capacity to actively engage in the efforts and pleasures of life is fundamentally altered, then depression becomes an illness rather than a temporary or existential state.
Kay Redfield Jamison
#23. Last time I looked at a [pay]check, I said to myself, 'Who the hell is FICA? And when I meet him, I'm going to punch him in the face. Oh my God, FICA is killing me.'
Shaquille O'Neal
#24. The elimination of individual capitalists and the replacement of private capitalism by state capitalism in Russia has not in the least altered the typical helpless and authoritarian character structure of the masses of people.
Wilhelm Reich
#25. I am a big fan of the Coen Brothers; I like their kind of absurd, dark approach.
Volker Bertelmann
#26. We are currently in an altered, dreamlike state, which creates suffering and confusion that disappear when we awaken. When
Loch Kelly
#27. Her blue, almond-shaped eyes - now even more elongated - had altered in appearance; they were indeed of the same colour, but seemed to have passed into a liquid state. So much so that, when she closed them, it was as though a pair of curtains had been drawn to shut out a view of the sea.
Marcel Proust
#28. Lost, so small amid that dark, hands grown cold, body image fading down corridors of television sky.
William Gibson
#29. The river delights to lift us free, if only we dare let go.
Richard Bach
