What Is Consciousness Quotes

No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.

Whatever the result may be, I shall carry to my grave the consciousness that I at least meant well for my country.

Whenever you step out of the noise of thinking, that is meditation, and a different state of consciousness arises.

Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation.

The consciousness in you and the consciousness in me, apparently two, really one, seek unity and that is love.

Love, consciousness, and creativity are the highest refinements of the cosmic evolutionary force.

The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it Intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why.

What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you're not getting the whole thing that's there to be had.

The world is known by the senses The senses are known by the mind The mind is known by Consciousness And Consciousness is known by itself

The danger of psychedelic drugs, the danger of mind-opening, the danger of consciousness expansion, the danger of inner discovery is a danger to the establishment.

The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.

I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as a derivative of consciousness.

If typography is calling attention to itself, it's taking that attention away from what the words are saying.

As Aurobindo and Teilhard de Chardin knew, the future of humankind is God-consciousness.

When you have so much pain, you think you will lose consciousness. If you say to yourself, ‘So what, lose consciousness,’ the pain goes away.

When the brain is whole, the unified consciousness of the left and right hemispheres adds up to more than the individual properties of the separate hemispheres.

Art cannot change the world, but it can contribute to changing the consciousness and drives of the men and women who could change the world.

Each of us can manifest the properties of a field of consciousness that transcends space, time, and linear causality.

Sahaja Yoga is the spontaneous union of the individual consciousness with the All-Pervading Divine Power.

The greatest barrier to consciousness is the belief that one is already conscious.

I don't believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.

Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.

Everything in the Universe, throughout all its kingdoms, is conscious: i.e., endowed with a consciousness of its own kind and on its own plane of perception.

Most people who have a problem concentrate on the problem. They take it to bed with them and stay awake all night thinking it over. Let go of that problem. Rise above it in consciousness.

Consciousness ... is the phenomenon whereby the universe's very existence is made known.

The totality of beliefs and sentiments common to the average members of a society forms a determinate system with a life of its own. It can be termed the collective or creative consciousness.

Any kind of consciousness that is not related to the production or consumption of material goods is stigmatized in our society today.

To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.

Whatever we do lays a seed in our deepest consciousness, and one day that seed will grow.

You govern your surroundings by the nature of what is taking place in your consciousness.

Anyway, there is a lot of really interesting work going on in the neuroscience and psychology of consciousness, and I would love to see philosophers become more closely involved with this.

When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.

Magick is the art of causing changes in consciousness to occur in accordance with the will.

Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom.

God is the Seed; The Universe is the Tree, Impulses and passions are the branches, Intelligence is the flower, Pure Consciousness is the fruit, Love is the sweetness in the fruit.

The consciousness of lucid dreaming is a cultural evolution. It's something that we are talking about and learning about, not biological evolution.

Only when you can understand yourself as All Pervading Consciousness can you possibly understand that all the universe is an emanation of your mind. Everything that you see comes out of you.

In the beginning was the word, and it was spoken.

Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness.

We — mankind — stand at the center of an evolutionary crisis, with a new evolutionary device — our consciousness of the crisis — as our unique contribution.

The arts are the only things that separate us from the other animals. The arts are not decorative. ... They are essential to our comprehension of consciousness and ourselves.

All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved.

The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Self-confidenc e, poise, consciousness of possessing the power to accomplish our desires, with renewed lively interest in life are the natural results of the practice of Contrology [Pilates].

The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.

Although each of us obviously inhabits a separate physical body, the laboratory data from a hundred years of parapsychology research strongly indicate that there is no separation in consciousness.

Hip-hop is still cool at a party. But to me, hip-hop has never been strictly a party; it is also there to elevate consciousness.

I have no sense of nationalism, only a cosmic consciousness of belonging to the human family.

The ultimate essence of yoga is the contact and the union between the individual consciousness and the divine consciousness.

The Truth is inseparable from who you are. Yes, you are the Truth. If you look for it elsewhere, you will be deceived every time.