Consciousness Quotes

What you encounter at your destination once you get there depends on the quality of this one step. Another way of putting it: What the future holds for you depends on your state of consciousness now.

Oprah [Winfrey] and I share a similar consciousness of spirit that is manifested in what some may call God or simply Spirit but others call it the Godhead manifestation of karmic virtue.

The consciousness of the animal begins to change when it interacts with a human who's gone beyond thinking. It's not only the animals assisting us; we are also assisting the animals.

For most people on the planet, consciousness can be equated with thought. They haven't experienced what it means to be conscious without thought, or they have only for very brief instants.

If we don't change, if the egoic consciousness continues, I don't believe that humanity as a species can survive, or at least human civilization can survive, for another hundred years.

Humans are potentially capable of living in a state of consciousness compared to which normal wakefulness is like sleeping or dreaming.

I am optimistic that humanity is going to make it, that humanity is going to reach, finally, a new state of consciousness which will then create a different kind of world.

Consciousness is not personal. Human consciousness is just an expression of universal consciousness, which pervades the entire universe.

The animals certainly like to be close to humans, especially as humans go through the shift in consciousness.

Constructive criticism is legitimate, but when it escalates to vitriol, it affects us all, because celebrities and influencers are part of the collective consciousness.

There is one unity, unified wholeness, total natural law, in the transcendental unified consciousness.

I really like when people do 'stream of consciousness' tweeting, or when people's tweets come across as sort of manic and mostly unedited.

Mark Twain had a way of telling stories that shifts your consciousness away from labels.

Knowledge is structured in consciousness

Consciousness, fully awake to itself, is the Light of God.

When a play enters my consciousness, is already a fairly well-developed fetus. I don't put down a word until the play seems ready to be written.

Writing should be useful. If it can’t instruct people a little bit more about the responsibilities of consciousness, there’s no point in doing it.

We don't have a "consciousness meter" that'll tell us exactly how conscious something is. I think we might get there eventually.

I worry that we don't have a very good definition of consciousness yet which makes it hard to tackle.

Behaviour arises from the level of one's consciousness.

Pure suffering has a consciousness, a tongue, a heart all its own and even the memory of it is but a pale unreality when compared with the actual experience.

Consciousness is, among other things, a spontaneous exercise in creativity.

[Occupy Wall Street] had an impact on consciousness. It was not effective in realizing change.

You expand your consciousness, your ideas, your perceptions. You break away from self-adopted restrictions. You grow as you learn to step aside from limiting conceptions and dogmas.

Pride and Prejudice' - perhaps more than any other Jane Austen book - is engrained in our literary consciousness.

... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness

pg 9, "The consciousness of life's unconsciousness is the oldest tax levied on the intelligence.

In connection with death, or birth, or love, modesty is only a rather puerile self-consciousness.

I love the appropriateness of making a dogmatic statement. I support that, but that is a different level of the individual consciousness than was the source of our music.

What happens in our consciousness and minds and bodies is also happening on earth. The more we pollute the earth, for example, the sicker we are.

What I teach is how to go inside and reach that place I call "love consciousness." This is a place of peace and joy that is within all humans.

Once we do fill the void and experience the expansion in consciousness, we realize there is enough and has always been enough. We've always had exactly what we've needed in every moment.

Eating is our earliest metaphor, preceding our consciousness of gender difference, race, nationality, and language. We eat before we talk.

Death is a withdrawal of consciousness. It's like taking attention from here and putting it there.

To eat with a fuller consciousness of all that is at stake might sound like a burden, but in practice few things in life afford quite as much satisfaction.

My vision is to elevate the consciousness of humanity one mind, one heart, one life, one spirit at a time. They are married.

And in self-giving we become really happy. Real humility is the expansion of our consciousness and our service.

Each individual has to know himself. He has to know himself as the infinite, eternal and immortal Consciousness.

The first step towards solving the omnivore's dilemma is knowledge: eating with full consciousness. When that happens, I have a lot of confidence that people will make good choices.

Speed is a way to escape consciousness and just act.

Human consciousness is now being drawn inexorably toward the same issues, the gaze of collective attention focused like never before.

Let the content of Swaraj grow with the growth of national consciousness and aspirations.

For every minute that I spin, there is in me the consciousness that I am adding to the nation's wealth.

Poetry, like dreams, will eventually break through every person's consciousness, even the tightest iconoclast's.

We change by changing our consciousness and by saying, money should not be a commodity. Money should be a means to an end.

All of consciousness is shifted from the imagined, the revisive, to the effort to perceive simply the cruel radiance of what is

My mom used to get involved with the Black Panther activities in Los Angeles. For me it was more about how to view my consciousness on these issues with a biblical framework.

Swaraj can only be achieved through an all-round consciousness of the masses.

The fact that I'd never really seen myself on screen allowed for a blissful ignorance. It didn't feel like a movie. I didn't have that self-consciousness. It was a game that I was playing.

Since I don't believe in externalism, I don't think it can explain consciousness!