Consciousness Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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 unconsciousness of man is the consciousness of God.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

When consciousness has no thoughts in it, one can experience spirit and live in harmony with the universal forces.

Energy and consciousness are in a continual state of interaction: energy is shaped and directed by consciousness which is itself driven by energy.

I know there's a consciousness energy that operates completely independent of the physical body you inhabit, that maintains... awareness after the body's gone.

Oh, America is slipping away from the rest of the consciousness of the planet - slipping away.

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.

You can move beyond the ego's perspective and see reality from the perspective of a higher consciousness.

I think human consciousness is a misstep in evolution. We became too self-aware, nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself. We are creatures that should not exist by natural law.

...physics is the study of the structure of consciousness.

But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was not horror or madness. For me it was sometimes both.

Consciousness is our only reprieve from Time.

Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us; there have been many circulation of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud.

What is it that really makes us, us? It's our collective intelligence. It's our ability to write things down, our language and our consciousness.

If there's a God, I want to see Him. It's pointless to believe in something without proof, and Krishna consciousness and meditation are methods where you can actually obtain God perception.

Barnacles on the container ship of consciousness.

I need one of those baby monitors from my subconscious to my consciousness so I can know what the hell I'm really thinking about.

Through all ages, great saints have remained as living proof that this non-temporary, permanent state of God consciousness can be revived in all living souls.

When I read philosophy or neuroscience papers about consciousness, I don't get the sense we're any closer to understanding it than we were 50 years ago.

A lot of what I am looking for is a moment of astonishment, he says. Those moments of pure consciousness when you involuntarily inhale and say 'Wow!'

Consciousness is a fascinating but elusive phenomenon: it is impossible to specify what it is, what it does, or why it evolved. Nothing worth reading has been written on it.

The world that we perceive is a reflection of our own states of mind and reveals our own level of consciousness.

There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.

Consciousness is an illusion constructed by the memes.

Superstitions are all materialism, because they are all based on the consciousness of body, body, body. No spirit there. Spirit has no superstitions - it is beyond the vain desires of the body.

Severe opposition is a measure of success (because) one inevitable result of winning a majority change in consciousness is a backlash from those forces whose power depended on the old one.

As the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation back to itself, and so gathers with itself.

Sensation is not the conduction of a quality or state of external bodies to consciousness, but the conduction of a quality or state of our nerves to consciousness, excited by an external cause.

Self-consciousness is really a form of egotism.

Become more and more centered in the Self. To live more and more in the thought that God is here in your consciousness.

One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humor.

If you listen to a lot of music, it gradually seeps into your consciousness or your unconsciousness and comes out in your music.