Conscious Quotes

Understand this if nothing else: spiritual freedom and oneness with the Tao are not randomly bestowed gifts, but the rewards of conscious self-transformation and self-evolution.

The more we learn about the world, and the deeper our learning, the more conscious, specific, and articulate will be our knowledge of what we do not know, our knowledge of our ignorance

Prayer is the very way God Himself has chosen for us to express our conscious need of Him and our humble dependence on Him.

The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.

If you strive only to avoid the darkness or to cling to the light, you cannot live in balance. Try striving to be conscious of all that you are.

Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche.

Your conscious life is an elaborate after-the-fact rationalization of things you really do for other reasons.

If we want to awaken, we don't need to eradicate the ego, we simply need to be conscious of the deeper self as well.

Animals are nicer than humans and they're conscious beings. If you stick your grandmother in an oven, she will probably be tasty. But is that any reason to eat your grandmother?

Those who are most conscious of forgiveness are invariably those who have been most acutely convicted of their sin.

A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.

The Conscious will is represented by the Sacred Woman, Maria, Isis, who crushes the descending serpent's head.

The minute you become conscious that you are doing good, that's the minute you have to stop because from then on it's wrong.

I'd say to myself: "This is my dream, this is my wish." Because a wish is more than a wish. It is a goal. It is something your conscious and subconscious can help make reality.

I'm always conscious of the context, the history, the specific environment of anything that I design and what it is going to be operating within.

To really be conscious of how long the journey is, be patient, push yourself, persevere and always be working on your craft while waiting for your break.

We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.

The Sixth Army, true to their oath and conscious of the lofty importance of their mission, have held their position to the last man and the last round for Führer and Fatherland unto the end.

Shallow breathing is the root of all evil but conscious deep breathing restores and secures our souls.

Yoga is not a new path to follow but a way to become conscious of the original impetus of life. Yoga is the movement and evolution of Life itself.

From a spiritual perspective every relationship we develop, from the most casual to the most intimate, serves the purpose of helping us to become more conscious.

It was such a depressing time. I didn't look very depressed, maybe, but it was really dire. I made a conscious decision not to stop, but it could have gone the other way.

I am very self-conscious a lot of the time.

Highly proactive people don't blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice.

As we express our appreciation of our many blessings, we become more conscious of what the Lord has done for us, and thereby we become more appreciative

Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.

We are dangerous when we are not conscious of our responsibility for how we behave, think, and feel.

When you are present, you are transcendent of the mind and ego and so you can witness your mind and ego. You can be conscious of your thoughts without being lost in them when they arise.

In recognizing exactly where we have been unconscious, we become more conscious. And in seeing and feeling the ways we've gone dead, we start to revive and kindle our desire to live more expansively.

Wth subtly developed body awareness, it is possible for the individual to become the conscious orchestrator of health.

In later years, during what might be called my gray-outs — when I was conscious but not myself — I craved foods that were almost always fattening.

If you're conscious you must be depressed, or at least cynical.

If those who give are conscious of their own generosity and those who receive feel indebted, they are no longer family but rather strangers doing business.

I have been accused of denying consciousness but I am not conscious of having done so.

Education, fundamentally, is the increase of the percentage of the conscious in relation to the unconscious. It must be a developing idea.

I am not brand conscious. I wear what suits me.

Drawing is like studying Greek and piano- you can't speak or play in your conscious, which is clumsy. You must get it into your subconscious, which is graceful. But that takes time.

The mind effortlessly and automatically takes in new ideas, which remain in limbo until verified or rejected by conscious, rational analysis.

Woman, in short, has an unconscious life, man a conscious life, and the genius the most conscious life.

I do not think that any civilization can be called complete until it has progressed from sophistication to unsophistication, and made a conscious return to simplicity of thinking and living.

The ultimate gift of conscious life is a sense of the mystery that encompasses it.

A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.

I swear to you gentlemen, that to be overly conscious is a sickness, a real, thorough sickness.

Well, the real Eric Bogosian is pretty self-conscious of himself.

Never forget your real identity. You are a luminous conscious stardust being forged in the crucible of cosmic fire.

The present times require the vigor and the activity of the prime of life; but I feel the increasing infirmities of age to such a degree, that I am conscious I cannot serve you to advantage.

The conscious mind allows itself to be trained like a parrot, but the unconscious does not — which is why St. Augustine thanked God for not making him responsible for his dreams.

The self is not only the centre but also the whole circumference which embraces both conscious and unconscious; it is the centre of this totality, just as the ego is the centre of consciousness.

Printing demands a humility of mind, for the lack of which many of the fine arts are even now floundering in self-conscious and maudlin experiments.

An armed man, especially if he is armed with a firearm, is dangerous as long as he is conscious. Take no chances. Put him out.