Consciousness Quotes

There is no reality of consciousness independent of the effects of various vehicles of content on subsequent action (and hence, of course, on memory).

We are consciousness. We may not always be monkeys.

This universe is formed out of both consciousness forces and matter. While the study of matter has been the domain of traditional science, the study of consciousness is the science of spirituality.

Your dreams are not just the rearrangement of memory. They are the vibrations of your consciousness. Guide them and go for the higher one.

A sub-clerk in the post-office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them.

Consciousness is observing your thoughts and actions so that you can live from true choice in the present moment rather than being run by programming from the past.

Yes, there is joy, fulfillment and companionship but the loneliness of the soul in its appalling self-consciousness is horrible and overpowering.

Consciousness is the fact that we think and feel and that a world, the world shows up for us.

The primary purpose of meditation is to become conscious of, and familiar with, our inner life. The ultimate purpose is to reach the source of life and consciousness.

At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.

But there is another danger besetting your path. I mean the error of regarding your own capacities instead of your work, of putting self-consciousness in place of God.

If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death.

LSD...reinforc ed my sense of what was important-creat ing great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could.

Quite possibly, the purpose of the universe is to provide a congenial home for self-conscious creatures who can ask profound questions and who can probe the nature of the universe itself.

How I wished during those sleepless hours that I belonged to a different nation, or better still, to none at all.

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

The aim of Zen training is to attain the state of consciousness which occurs when the individual ego is emptied of itself and becomes identified with the infinite reality of all things.

The wisdom obtained in the higher states of consciousness is different from that obtained by inference and testimony as it refers to particulars.

Consciousness is endless, from one incarnation to the next. It simply will and does manifest in other places and times, regardless of what becomes of the human race.

Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.

Progress changes consciousness, and when people's consciousness changes, then their awareness of what is possible changes as well - a virtuous circle.

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

I love innovation, I love competing. I hate my competitors. You cannot be in the world of business when you don't have this consciousness of winning.

The sorcerer is a Simple Realist: the world is real--but then so must consciousness be real since its effects are so tangible.

In dream consciousness we make things happen by wishing them, because we are not only the observer of what we experience but also the creator.

With the arrival of humans, it has been said, the universe has suddenly become conscious of itself. This, truly, it the greatest mystery of all.

The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.

There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it.

Self-consciousness is the destroyer of erotic joy.

The mastery of any subject requires that one identify himself with the particular state of consciousness appropriate to that subject.

I shall not be deprived ... of a comfort in the worst event, if I retain a consciousness of having acted to the best of my judgment.

...the consciousness of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes the handing-over of all power to a small caste seem the natural, unavoidable condition of survival.

Thoughts are just moving through consciousness. They have no power. Nothing has reality until you reach it, grab it, and somehow impregnate it with the power of belief.

All I'm saying is that minerals are just a rudimentary form of consciousness whereas the other people are saying that consciousness is a complicated form of minerals.

The purpose of therapy is not to remove suffering but to move through it to an enlarged consciousness that can sustain the polarity of painful opposites.

People steal into one's consciousness and occupy what seems, in retrospect, to have been their place all along.

The old will disappear. Human level consciousness by itself can no longer resolve the complexities it has created.

Neither physical science nor psychology can ever 'explain' human consciousness. To me then, human consciousness lies outside science, and it is here that I seek the relationship between God and man.

Evidence for or against God, if it is there, saturates every moment of the experience of existence, every employment of reason, every act of consciousness, every encounter with the world around us.

Endless drama in a group clouds consciousness. Too much noise overwhelms the senses. Continual input obscures genuine insight. Do not substitute sensationalism for learning.

I make an idol of my moral consciousness. My pursuit of the good is corrupted by the sin of idolatry.

The singularity has nothing to do with consciousness.

No matter how far we go into the future, there will always be new things happening, new information coming in, new worlds to explore, a constantly expanding domain of life, consciousness, and memory.

Sanity means the wholeness of the consciousness. And our society is only part conscious, like an idiot.

Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regain consciousness

The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future — which, of course, can only be experienced as the Now

The primary aim, object, and purpose of consciousness is control. Consciousness in a mere automaton is a useless and unnecessary epiphenomenon.

That's what's provocative to me - that we can victimize people, we can torture and traumatize people with no consciousness that it is a shameful thing to do.

Hell is a place, a time, a consciousness, in which there is no love.

We are on the planet to... wrap our consciousness around the divine treasure within us.