Consciousness Quotes

You need a vanguard organization in order to overcome the dangerous potential brought about by the uneven development of class militancy and class consciousness.

Eat with consciousness. When you eat with consciousness, and you know what you're eating, and you eat it in full appreciation of what it is, it's enormously satisfying.

Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is.

All is a play in consciousness. All divisions are illusory. You can know the false only. The true you must yourself be.

Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence

I don't think art is in danger of dissolution or disappearance, and we don't trust enough in its ability and power to create critical consciousness as much as we think we do.

It's very likely that most mammals have consciousness, and probably birds, too.

Let's absurdify life, from east to west. Let us play hide-and-seek with our consciousness of living.

If your social consciousness seems stuck in 1975, 2014 is gonna be a rough ride.

Consciousness, much like our feelings, is based on a representation of the body and how it changes when reacting to certain stimuli. Self-image would be unthinkable without this representation.

I'm not a fast, stream-of-consciousness lyricist at all - I know some guys who are, and if there is one skill I wish I had, it's that.

There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and the brain.

I think that we are supernatural. We are unique. We're the only animals in the universe that we know of that actually have self-consciousness, a sense of time and our own mortality.

Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.

Many cultures have independently developed a belief system in reincarnation that includes return of the unit of consciousness to another physical lifetime on Earth.

The planes of consciousness are correlated to what we call the chakras, which are located along the shushumna.

It's not going to be a straight upward progression, but there's no doubt that consciousness is growing. Prejudices die regularly in the Western world. We don't burn witches anymore.

Enlightenment is the unaltered state of consciousness

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.

Self-consciousness, that's what it is. Always my abiding vice. I keep seeing myself. Me watching myself watching others watch me. How do you lose that? What's the trick?

It's about your heart and about your consciousness. It's not about length of time you pray. Some of the most powerful prayers I've ever heard come from children, who can barely speak.

There are many matters and many circumstances in which consciousness is undesirable and silence is golden, so that secrecy can be used as a marker to tell us that we are approaching the holy.

A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself is doomed. We are one planet.

Seldom, or perhaps never, does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises; there is no coming to consciousness without pain.

Who's your soul's mate? Consciousness. Soul is your conscious mate. Guru keeps you conscious.

Knowledge can bring many things..but the consciousness of the heart brings love, and love brings everything

Consciousness is the ultimate Reality; compared with it, all else is illusion.

Ideas are intelligent active things which present themselves to your consciousness for expression. You can only be receptive and express them as they will be expressed.

The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.

The language of [Catholic] mysticism - its repeated attempts to lay consciousness itself bare and speak all the intensely opposing yet interconnected parts of it that cannot be spoken.

What we need is a new consciousness concerning the idea of human liberty.

The unconsciousness of man is the consciousness of God.

The years between 1800 and 1825 were distinguished, so far as our domestic development was concerned, by the growth of the Western pioneer Democracy in power and self-consciousness.

The spirit of rejection finds its support in the consciousness of separateness; the spirit of acceptance finds its base in the consciousness of unity.

Given how deeply the ways of war have penetrated our collective consciousness, it will take spiritual power to turn the issue around.

The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass.

Often, even after years, mental states once present in consciousness return to it with apparent spontaneity and without any act of the will; that is, they are reproduced involuntarily.

My consciousness is without limits more than when I was 40 or 50.

Art and religion have the same origin. Art first, or religion first? Maybe consciousness first! Consciousness always comes with religious feeling and artistic identification. It's the same origin.

Spirituality is revival of our God consciousness, not creating something new.

The highest activities of consciousness have their origins in physical occurrences of the brain, just as the loveliest melodies are not too sublime to be expressed by notes.

What surprises you in life? The marvel of consciousness -- that sudden window swinging open on a sunlit landscape amidts the night of non-being.

The more we are happy in Krishna Consciousness, the more we become purified.

Without consciousness the mind-body problem would be much less interesting. With consciousness it seems hopeless.

Suggestibility varies as the amount of disaggregation, and inversely as the unification of consciousness.

Feminism as a political movement has to specifically address the needs of men in their struggle to revolutionize their consciousness.

A Oneness of all. An evolution in consciousness of us all that isn't about the egos.

Time is the element that controls the consciousness, the very being of the people.

With yoga, not only your body should become flexible - your mind and emotions, and above all your consciousness should become flexible.

The consciousness that says 'I am' is not the consciousness that thinks.