Consciousness Expansion Quotes

#1. Consciousness Expansion went out with LBJ ... and it is worth noting, historically, that downers came in with Nixon.

Hunter S. Thompson

#2. 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.

Timothy Leary

#3. Intuitively, one would assume if you don't grow up with other children you might not learn that easy give and take. What often happens is that there are some only children who act that way, and that stands out more than the only children who seem to get along with others.

Peter Thomas

#4. The universe exists only through a constant dance of consistency and change. Through consistency, consciousness finds meaning; through change it finds stimulation and expansion. To find consistency within change is to embrace the unfolding flow.

Anodea Judith

#5. The expansion of your own consciousness, love capacity, humility and compassion - this is the path; this is the way.

Bryant H. McGill

#6. Through our chanting we merge our personal consciousness momentarily with the infinite consciousness that is our origin and our destiny. It is the drop of water finding its way back into the ocean from which it came.

Victor Shamas

#7. Romanticism was more than merely an alternative to a sterile classicism; romanticism made possible, especially in art, a great expansion of the human consciousness.

Edward Abbey

#8. - The earth hums?
- Of course it does. What a stupid question! Don't you hear it?

Jeff Smith

#9. At the very center of our being is rhythmic movement, a cyclic expansion and contraction that is both in our body and outside it, that is both in our mind and in our body, that is both in our consciousness and not in it.

Andrew Weil

#10. Evolution of mankind is paralleled by the increase and expansion of consciousness.

Albert Hofmann

#11. Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.

Terence McKenna

#12. During a peak experience," Maslow explained, "the individual experiences an expansion of self, a sense of unity, and meaningfulness in life. The experience lingers in one's consciousness and gives a sense of purpose, integration, self-determination and empathy.

Steven Kotler

#13. People are here on Earth to improve their own energy. It is not the Earth's energy and the Earth's force that need to be improved.

Anni Sennov

#14. Our minds work in real time, which begins at the Big Bang and will end, if there is a Big Crunch - which seems unlikely, now, from the latest data showing accelerating expansion. Consciousness would come to an end at a singularity.

Stephen Hawking

#15. If somebody's trying to shut you up, sing louder, and if possible, better.

Salman Rushdie

#16. Spiritual awakening refers to a dramatic expansion in consciousness rather than a minor realization about oneself.

Jordan Jacobs

#17. Occasionally I see rich-looking women on Rollerblades gripping leashes and being towed bodily by golden retrievers. That's my kind of jogging.

Gary Reilly

#18. Every time I fumble or drop a ball I am embarrassed.

Dante Hall

#19. Think about our dilemma on this planet. If the expansion of consciousness does not loom large in the human future, what kind of future is it going to be?

Terence McKenna

#20. People want to think of economics as a natural science, like physics, with the comforting reliability of simple-to-understand theories like F=MA. Unfortunately, it isn't. Economics is a social science, and the so-called theories are really social and moral constructs.

Nick Hanauer

#21. Bullies are always cowards.

Swami Vivekananda

#22. From the psychological point of view, the self-asserting emotions, derived from emergency reactions, involve a narrowing of consciousness; the participatory emotions an expansion of consciousness by identificatory processes of various kinds.

Arthur Koestler

#23. It is the most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home.

Charles Dickens

#24. I absolutely love Oprah Winfrey. What a great woman and a great businesswoman. She seems to really campaign for an expansion of global consciousness. I think she's phenomenal.

Gwendoline Christie

#25. When you feel expansion of your consciousness, that is the most ecstatic experience possible, because suddenly you are the whole universe. Stars are within you. The sun rises within you and sets within you. The earth moves within you. The flowers blossom within you.

Rajneesh

#26. 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.

Isha Judd

#27. There is no likelihood of our being able to suppress humanity's aggressive tendencies ... Complete suppression of man's aggressive tendencies is not an issue; what we may try is to direct it into a channel other than that of warfare.

Sigmund Freud

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

Sri Chinmoy

#29. Challenges are inevitable, Defeat is optional.

Roger Crawford

#30. The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt that it didn't matter.

Edward Albee

#31. I know its a kick in the pants to hear that the problem is you, but it's also fucking fantastic. You are, after all, the only person you can change.

Cheryl Strayed

#32. Half the f-f-family's in the Order, it'll b-b-be a miracle if we all come through this. . . . and

J.K. Rowling

#33. For me Greece is Maria Farantouri. This is how I imagined Goddess Hera to be: strong, pure and vigilant. I have never encountered any other artist able to give me such a strong sense of the divine.

Francois Mitterrand

#34. What's popularly known as the evolution of consciousness, in other words that the expansion of cognitive repertoire that occurs in human beings, which has always been a great puzzle to evolutionary theory, I believe, occurred in the presence of a kind of catalyst for the human imagination.

Terence McKenna