Consciousness Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

When you listen to a thought, you are aware not only of the thought but also of yourself as the witness of the thought. A new dimension of consciousness has come in.

Awareness of the inner body is consciousness remembering its origin and returning to the Source.

The voice of the Constitution is the inescapably solemn self-consciousness of the people giving the law unto themselves.

Consciousness is nothing but awareness the composite of all the thing we pay attention to.

Life is a metaphor for what's happening in your consciousness.

All my life I have been a poor go-to-sleeper. No matter how great my weariness, the wrench of parting with consciousness is unspeakably repulsive to me.

Time is an experience in consciousness. It is metabolized as our biological clock. Changing our experience of time can reverse aging.

You are no more in your body than Beethoven is inside your radio.

Knowledge has organizing power inherit in it. It is simply enough to know.

When we heed the call of our deepest desires, we fulfill our true destinies.

The Universe is a mirror of consciousness.

Meditation is one of the most direct and powerful ways to awaken to who we really are and to experience happiness as a state of consciousness that already exists within us.

Since we are an inextricable part of the field of consciousness, we are also infinitely creative, unbounded, and eternal.

Banning capital punishment takes us to a higher state of consciousness.

If your goal is to avoid pain and escape suffering, I would not advise you to seek higher levels of consciousness or spiritual evolution.

I believe consciousness is brazenly physical, a raucous mirage the brain creates to help us survive.

The consciousness of being borne up by a spiritual tradition that goes back for centuries gives one a feeling of confidence and security in the face of all passing strains and stresses.

When it comes to the fundamental issues that humanity faces, I think that solutions involve shifting consciousness towards cooperation.

The Buddhists say there are 121 states of consciousness. Of these, only three involve misery or suffering. Most of us spend our time moving back and forth between these three.

Consciousness is the foundation of all thinking; and thinking is the foundation of all consciousness.

I try not to make social consciousness a massive part of my music or comedy because I prefer to be an entertainer first and foremost, then do actual grassroots work when I can.

One connection I see between novelists and terrorists is that we both attempt to alter consciousness.

Ask yourself this question. Do we have to be humans forever? Consciousness is exhausted. Back now to inorganic matter. This is what we want. We want to be stones in a field.

Not long ago, a novelist could believe he could have an effect on our consciousness of terror. Today, the men who shape and inflence human consciousness are the terrorists.

At no time, anywhere, was the population of a country told the truth: facts about events trickled into general consciousness much later, if ever.

Most novels, if they are successful at all, are original in the sense that they report the existence of an area of society, a type of person, not yet admitted to the general literate consciousness.

The war has jerked us pretty sharply into consciousness about this slug-a-bed sin of Sloth, and perhaps we need not say too much about it. But two warnings are rather necessary.

Consciousness does affect matter.

There's an interconnectivity between what's in the consciousness of cat and what's in the consciousness of us.

The best thing about bugs is their lack of self consciousness, also the ability to fly doesn't hurt.

Works of Art are meant to connect the human heart to inspiration, for cosmic consciousness to grow in the Supreme Reality rooted in Life and Being.

In the consciousness of the end is the limitation of the moment.

Nations consist of individuals. It is for every individual to bring in a different quality - the quality of awakened consciousness - into their lives.

I can't predict what songs will do to the collective consciousness.

The main thing I don't like about myself is an absurd level of self-consciousness that makes any sort of social encounter an ordeal for me.

I'd like to see the Second Coming in every one of us. That we all be Jesus. That we all embody that consciousness.

Magazines, books, novels, TV, internet, movies - all of those things is what creates our consciousness.

Heart is consciousness, I is Baba.

Not what you do, but how you do what you do determines whether you are fulfilling your destiny. And how you do what you do is determined by your state of consciousness.

If the price of peace were a lowering of your consciousness, and the price of stillness a lack of vitality and alertness, then they would not be worth having.

It's the nature of human consciousness to look for trouble constantly, and we find it. We find it.

There are many things that are still uncertain and that probably nobody knows, because so many factors determine what form the transformation of consciousness on our planet takes.

I think a pretty good modus operandi is to believe that everything we know is wrong. The stomach will be the key to depression or consciousness or we'll realize ants are smarter than people.

I want to connect music to its highest power - which is heightening consciousness and affecting people's reality. That can't be done in normal ways, not according to my experience.

The operation of consciousness has created the 'apparition' called 'me'.