Consciousness Quotes
In the history of the collective as in the history of the individual, everything depends on the development of consciousness.
Pleasure is an important component of the quality of life, but by itself it does not bring happiness. Pleasure helps to maintain order, but by itself cannot create a new order in consciousness.
Yoga breathing control is practiced to influence our thinking. The lungs correspond to our fore brain and can influence our consciousness.
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.
All your power is in your awareness of that power, and through holding that power in your consciousness.
The ill effects of thought come about when we forget that thought is a function of our consciousness.. an ability that we as human beings have. We are the producers of our own thinking.
Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by which they are determined.
In the consciousness of eternity, time is not, neither is space. In man's consciousness there appears so much mercy, so much love, that these have been called time and space.
Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.
White lines in movement symbolize a unifying idea which flows through the compartmented units of life bringing the consciousness of a larger relativity.
I have found that long durational art is really the key to changing consciousness. On such a deep level. Not just the performer, but the one looking at it.
What we mean by maturity in people's thinking is not a matter of how smart they are, but it is a matter of the order of consciousness in which they exercise their smartness or their lack of it.
A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence.
Nature is favourable to our effort when human awareness is being established more and more in pure consciousness.
As brain functioning becomes more and more integrated, consciousness - the mind - becomes more and more invincible, and then any dictate of the mind is immediately followed by the body.
Life is a vexatious trap; when a thinking man reaches maturity and attains to full consciousness he cannot help feeling that he is in a trap from which there is no escape.
On human levels of consciousness one may emphasize getting and having as the prime goals, in spiritual consciousness he seeks the way of giving and being.
He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.
Nothing in the real world is as beautiful as the illusions of a person about to lose consciousness.
Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing.
Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness a more humane society will not emerge.
Effective learning means arriving at new power, and the consciousness of new power is one of the most stimulating things in life.
Whenever I heard the song of a bird and the answering call of its mate, I could visualize the notes in scale, all built up within my consciousness as a natural symphony.
Science cannot destroy the consciousness of freedom, without which there is no morality and no art, but it can refute it.
As body, mind, or soul, you are a dream; you really are Being, Consciousness, Bliss (satchidananda). You are the God of this universe.
I always tell my students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don't let anyone throw you off.
When you are fully conscious, drama does not come into your life anymore.
Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man.
What happens is consciousness operates in mysterious ways. One of those ways is that the old paradigm suddenly starts to die.
It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.
We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.
Another thing that's good about writing to describe a situation or a state of consciousness is that you can finally get it right. That was my intention, and that's always interesting.
When your consciousness is directed outward, mind and world arise. When it is directed inward, it realises its own Source and returns home into the Unmanifested.
In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
Being a physicist, not a philosopher, I have devised an entirely new theory of consciousness, allowing one to numerically calculate the level of consciounsess of humans and even animals.
It is on the whole probably that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it.
Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
When you forget yourself and your fear, when you get beyond self-consciousness because your mind is thinking about what you are trying to communicate, you become a better communicator
The only successful manifestation is one which brings about a change or growth in consciousness; that is, it has manifested God, or revealed him more fully as well as having manifested a form.
What you feel, what you desire and what you want is not what you are. You are a consciousness. Speak consciously and speak what your consciousness allows you to speak.
