Consciousness Quotes

But the biggest clue seemed to be their expressions. They were hard to explain. Good-natured, friend...

What is in mind is a sort of Chautauqua...that’s the only name I can think of for it...like the trav...

You can’t really think hard about what you’re doing and listen to the radio at the same time. Maybe ...

I want to talk about another kind of high country now in the world of thought, which in some ways, f...

We have a closed circle of consistency here: the laws of physics produce complex systems, and these ...

Consciousness is the awareness that emerges out of the dialectical tension between possibilities and...

These poets and other creative persons are the ones who express being itself, he held. As I would pu...

We’re naked under our clothes; we both know what it’s like to need to fart and hold it in, or not be...

The realistic goal to be attained through spiritual practice is not some permanent state of enlighte...

If there is any kernel of truth in the religions we so deplore,and they are just a carnival of error...

We are all trying to find a path back to the present moment. And good enough reason to just be happy...

Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can fe...

The only differences between a cult and a religion are the numbers of adherents and the degree to wh...

It is always now

And perhaps there is none, no morrow anymore, for one who has waited so long for it in vain. And per...

Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as...

When your heart's gratitude comes to the fore, when you become all gratitude, this gratitude is like...

Real joy means immediate expansion. If we experience pure joy, immediately our heart expands. We fee...

Each of us can manifest the properties of a field of consciousness that transcends space, time, and ...

Each individual possesses a conscience which to a greater or lesser degree serves to restrain the un...

Remember that "seeing is believing" puts the cart before the horse. Art is the concrete artifact of ...

Once we have isolated the computational and neurological correlates of access-consciousness, there i...

If one could amputate part of one's consciousness...

Satan's despair is absolute because Satan, as pure spirit, is pure consciousness, and for Satan (and...

With every increase in the degree of consciousness, and in proportion to that increase, the intensit...

With every increase in the degree of consciousness, and in proportion to that increase, the intensit...

It's clearly a crisis of two things: of consciousness and conditioning. We have the technological po...

We have been to the moon, we have charted the depths of the ocean and the heart of the atom, but we ...

Our culture, self-toxified by the poisonous by-products of technology and egocentric ideology, is th...

You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring bac...

If this constant sliding and hiding of meaning were true of conscious life, then we would of course ...

In conscious life, we achieve some sense of ourselves as reasonably unified, coherent selves, and wi...

So it is that supernatural horror is the product of a profoundly divided species of being. It is not...

There is nothing like fear to complicate one's consciousness, inducing previously unknown levels of ...

We are only chance visitants to this jungle of blind mutations. The natural world existed when we di...

A misbegotten hatchling of consciousness, a birth defect of our species, imagination is often revere...

For us, then, life is a confidence trick we must run on ourselves, hoping we do not catch on to any ...

As survivors and procreators, we unravel stories that at their root are not dissimilar from the habi...

We did not make ourselves, nor did we fashion a world that could not work without pain, and great pa...

Consciousness of self was an inherent function of matter once it was organized as life, and if that ...

The existence of conscious minds and their access to the evident truth of ethics and methematics are...

The universe has become not only conscious and aware of itself but capable in some respects of choos...

Schelling's God is the totality of Nature struggling towards consciousness, and Man is as far as the...

They are of the dream time. I don't understand it, I can't say it in words. Everything dreams. The p...

When a person dies, they cross over from the realm of freedom to the realm of slavery. Life is freed...

The mind of man, moreover, works with equal strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodg...

And what agony, thought Krug the thinker, to love so madly a little creature, formed in some mysteri...

I remember a cartoon depicting a chimney sweep falling from the roof of a tall building and noticing...

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objecti...

To read is to translate, for no two persons' experiences are the same. A bad reader is like a bad tr...

The highest activities of consciousness have their origins in physical occurrences of the brain just...

I know noble accentsAnd lucid, inescapable rhythms;But I know, too,That the blackbird is involvedIn ...

You sea! I resign myself to you also-I guess what you mean, I behold from the beach your crooked fin...

The concept of country, homeland, dwelling place becomes simplified as "the environment" -- that is,...

Work democracy cannot be imposed on people as a political system. It depends on the consciousness on...

Intelligence is the capacity to know what we are doing and instinct is just instinct. The results ar...

The very comprehensibility of the world points to an intelligence behind the world. Indeed, science ...

The nature of consciousness is to point beyond itself. It is a tending toward or pointing to... Sinc...

My experience is what I agree to attend to.

In certain diseased conditions consciousness is a mere spark, without memory of the past or thought ...

Why may we not be in the universe, as our dogs and cats are in our drawingrooms and libraries?

The mind is at every stage a theater of simultaneous possibilities. Consciousness consists in the co...

Four Characters in Consciousness—How does it go on? We notice immediately four important characters ...

It is as if there were in the human consciousness a sense of reality, a feeling of objective presenc...

I feel that the change, the mutation in consciousness, will occur spontaneously once certain pressur...

By studying Bhagavad-gītā, one can become a soul completely surrendered to the Supreme Lord and enga...

The acknowledgement of a single possibility can change everything.

Discourse and critical thinking are essential tools when it comes to securing progress in a democrat...

The only reality we can ever truly know is that of our perceptions, our own consciousness, while tha...

Consciousness, unprovable by scientific standards, is forever, then, the impossible phantom in the p...

Now I can broach the notion of suicide. It has already been felt what solution might be given. At th...

Thinking is learning all over again how to see, directing one's consciousness, making of every image...

True philosophy must start from the most immediate and comprehensive fact of consciousness: 'I am li...

No recorded vision is perfect, of high visions, for the seer must keep either his physical organs or...

Meditation is realizing and expanding your inner beauty in every direction.

Life is a manifestation of the unified field of consciousness. Colors, beauty, pleasure and pain are...

There are twenty one mystical dimensions of consciousness. Enlightenment is abiding in the highest t...

Meditation gives clear understanding about body and brain interface with consciousness

Enlightenment is tuning our consciousness to music of the universe.

You are here to evolve and make your consciousness high.You are here to dance, sing and celebrate li...

In higher samadhi, in absence of any support, the consciousness is absorbed within itself in perfect...

We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someon...

When an individual appreciates that he alone is responsible for the content and coherence of his per...

If you don't believe in God, it may help to remember this great line of Geneen Roth's: that awarenes...

Because if God doesn't exist we are the creaturesof highest consciousness in the universe. We alone ...

Last year I had a very unusual experience. I was awake, with my eyes closed, when I had a dream. It ...

For as long as I could remember, I had been transparent to myself, unselfconscious, learning, doing,...

Last year I had a very unusual experience. I was awake, with my eyes closed, when I had a dream. It ...

In the forty minutes I watched the muskrat, he never saw me, smelled me, or heard me at all. When he...

Today is the winter solstice. The planet tilts just so to its star, lists and holds circling in a fi...

The color-patches of vision part, shift, and reform as I move through space in time. The present is ...

All at once, something wonderful happened, although at first, it seemed perfectly ordinary. A female...

I have often noticed that these things, which obsess me, neither bother nor impress other people eve...

A kind of northing is what I wish to accomplish, a single-minded trek towards that place where any s...

I am sitting under a sycamore by Tinker Creek. I am really here, alive on the intricate earth under ...

Xerxes, I read, ‘halted his unwieldy army for days that he might contemplate to his satisfaction’ th...

And under the cicadas, deeper down that the longest taproot, between and beneath the rounded black r...

What I aim to do is not so much learn the names of the shreds of creation that flourish in this vall...

Say you could view a time-lapse film of our planet: what would you see? Transparent images moving th...

I want to think about trees. Trees have a curious relationship to the subject of the present moment....