Consciousness Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

So many people are passive participants in their very short time of having a consciousness, and those who aren't inspire me. Like Malala Yousafzai or a ninety-two-year-old yoga instructor.

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

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

Evil is an extreme manifestation of human unconsciousness.

Consciousness is a vast ocean and thinking is the waves & ripples on the surface of the ocean.

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.

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

You are not what happens in your life. You are the space in which it happens, which is consciousness itself.

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.

If increased meta-knowledge is not counter-balanced by a corresponding growth in consciousness then the likelihood of psycho-spiritual dysfunction is great.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

It is consciousness that sets all limits of life, if there are any limits.

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

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.

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.

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

Special qualities are required of the essayist. A poem or a novel may spring from the inner consciousness of an author. Reasoning poers must be brought to reinforce imagination.