Top 100 Consciousness Is Quotes

#1. Consciousness-Based Education is just plugging us all into the beautiful, eternal field within, and then watching things get better, which is what happens. It's a field of infinite, unbounded peace within every human being, and when you experience it, you enliven that peace.

David Lynch

#2. Chaos is everywhere and chaos is wonderful. That's all there really is. There is no today. There is no tomorrow. There is only eternity, perfection, consciousness, power, and light.

Frederick Lenz

#3. Hypnotism is trespass into the territory of another's consciousness. Its temporary phenomena have nothing in common with the miracles performed by men of divine realization.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#4. Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.

John Sterling

#5. Life is a continual flow of events, streaming in from the universal stream of consciousness in such a way that it exactly matches our own stream of consciousness.

Neale Donald Walsch

#6. The question - do we have free will, itself is not appropriate. We should mend our perspective a little, and start asking the question, do we have the freedom of will, based on our experiences?

Abhijit Naskar

#7. Regardless of what you believe in or conceive of as the functionality of Reality, the Oneness of you with all you experience in your life is an absolute

Thomas Daniel Nehrer

#8. The unconscious is our best collaborator.

Mike Nichols

#9. To run 100 miles and more is to bring the body to the point of breaking, to bring the mind to the point of destruction, to arrive at that place where you can alter your consciousness.

Scott Jurek

#10. The effect of the mantram is cumulative: constant repetition, constant practice, is required for the mantram to take root in our consciousness and gradually transform it, just as constant repetition makes the advertiser's jingle stick in our minds.

Eknath Easwaran

#11. The brain, like it or not, is a machine. Scientists have come to that conclusion, not because they are mechanistic killjoys, but because they have amassed evidence that every aspect of consciousness can be tied to the brain. - STEVEN PINKER

Michio Kaku

#12. Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable.

Thomas Nagel

#13. Graduation speeches force you to reflect. They are about consciousness. Nothing is better than consciousness.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

#14. One of the most difficult things to learn is to render service without bossing, without making a fuss about it, and without any consciousness of high and low. In the world of spirituality, humility counts at least as much as utility.

Meher Baba

#15. [L]et my reader who is puzzled by my awkward explanations close his eyes for no more than two minutes, and see if he does not find himself suddenly not a compact human being at all, but only a consciousness on a sea of sound and touch ...

Shirley Jackson

#16. Hell is a place, a time, a consciousness, in which there is no love.

Richard Bach

#17. Mathematics is the handwriting on the human consciousness of the very Spirit of Life itself.

Claude Fayette Bragdon

#18. The absence of any consideration of lesbian consciousness or the consciousness of third world women leaves a serious gap within this conference ...

Audre Lorde

#19. Enlightenment is the unfolding of the divinity within.

Michael Sharp

#20. Consciousness is a born hermit.

George Santayana

#21. I think there is no work of art which represents the spirit of a nation more surely than "Die Meister Singer" of Richard Wagner. Here is no plaything with local colour, but the raising to its highest power all that is best in the national consciousness of his country.

Ralph Vaughan Williams

#22. Suffering is primarily a
call for attention, which itself is a movement of love. More than
happiness, love wants growth, the widening and deepening of awareness and consciousness and being. Whatever prevents that, becomes a cause of pain, and love does not shirk from pain.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#23. You've got to stop thinking of consciousness as your own. You're only thinking for yourself when you are by yourself. As soon as you are in the presence of others, your consciousness is linked at some level to those others.

James Rozoff

#24. Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.

Balthus

#25. There is only one of us. One consciousness manifesting into different forms.

Ram Dass

#26. They tell each other what they are thinking. But there is no reason to believe anything they say.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#27. Wilderness is the source of what we can imagine and what we cannot - the taproot of consciousness.
It will survive us.

Terry Tempest Williams

#28. Life doesn't have to be a freeform stream of consciousness, where any thought that comes into our heads is entertained.

Sheila Wray Gregoire

#29. A solicitor had looked up at the sky, swept blue by the wind, and had a sudden sense of religious consolation, a feeling that this life cannot possibly be all, and that it is not possible for consciousness to end with the end of life.

John Lanchester

#30. Mind-body integration is more than a personal health strategy. It is a movement of consciousness that can change the world.

Matthew Sanford

#31. You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#32. The subconscious mind is the product of universal consciousness, universal knowledge, and universal beauty. It is the reflecting mirror of our conscious mind. The subconscious mind is always eager to manifest through our conscious mind.

Debasish Mridha

#33. Trying to change social, national, or global realities without working on human consciousness means there is no serious intention.

Jaggi Vasudev

#34. The ideal story is that of two people who go into love step for step, with a fluttered consciousness, like a pair of children venturing together into a dark room.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#35. Faith is one of only two things in mankind's consciousness that defies discussion. The other is one's marriage.

Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

#36. There is no need for faith where there is no consciousness of an element of risk.

Elisabeth Elliot

#37. Memory is a time capsule; it records the wounds inflicted upon human consciousness.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#38. Samsara-our conditioned existence in the perpetual cycle of habitual tendencies and nirvana - genuine freedom from such an existence- are nothing but different manifestations of a basic continuum. So this continuity of consciousness us always present. This is the meaning of tantra.

Dalai Lama

#39. The Kabbalah describes angels as bundles of light, meaning intelligence, consciousness. Kabbalists believe that above every blade of grass is an angel crying "Grow! Grow!" ... I believe that above the entire human race is one super-angel, crying "Evolve! Evolve!"

Steven Pressfield

#40. Egoic consciousness is the one we all normally operate with, until we are told there is something else! Every culture teaches egoic consciousness in different ways. At that level it is all about me, my preferences, my choices, my needs, my desires and me and my group as the central reference point.

Richard Rohr

#41. Mastery of impulse is achieved through taking pauses during life's contrasting situations. Mastery of impulse is about developing strong willpower that can be used to redirect the flow of energy in any situation. Mastery of impulse is about responding to the world with a sense of reason and peace.

Alaric Hutchinson

#42. You are a limitless consciousness, Love, and the One who contains within yourself all that is.

Raphael Zernoff

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

Esther Hicks

#44. Humanity has pondered over the meaning of God since its beginning. It is one of those cognitive features that came along with the advent of modern Human Consciousness.

Abhijit Naskar

#45. Beauvoir was untouched by the criticisms; her diary was a record of one consciousness, her own: "This is what I saw and how I saw it. I have not tried to say more.

Alice Kaplan

#46. When we die ... we fall asleep, and are immersed in a dream state.However,when we are born, the ideal is to come out of the dream state and into full-waking consciousness.-Serena Jade

Serena Jade

#47. I see myself as a man who is searching for meaning in life. This is rather different from being a staunch believer in something. A believer is someone who senses a consciousness or a direction and believes in it. The one who searches for meaning has not found the direction yet.

Aharon Appelfeld

#48. The primary purpose of meditation is to become conscious of, and familiar with, our inner life. The ultimate purpose is to reach the source of life and consciousness.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#49. Yoga is, as I can readily believe, the perfect and appropriate method of fusing body and mind together so that they form a unity which is scarcely to be questioned. This unity creates a psychological disposition which makes possible intuitions that transcend consciousness.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#50. [I am] utterly entranced, at times, with the mere fact that there are other people, and that they experience themselves as the primary center of consciousness just as I do. That fact alone ... Well, that fact alone is staggering.

Joyce Carol Oates

#51. We never know the reality of things: we see only what we are aware of. It is our consciousness that determines the shape of the world around us
its size, motion and meaning.

Nawal El Saadawi

#52. Reality is that which exists; the unreal does not exist; the unreal is merely that negation of existence which is the content of a human consciousness when it attempts to abandon reason. Truth is the recognition of reality; reason, man's only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth.

Ayn Rand

#53. Curses are our conscious choices, so is grace," said Rama. Every error is an invitation to see our reality better, to realise where our consciousness is and where it can be. When we refuse to reach out to the potential of our consciousness, a curse befalls us.

Tomichan Matheikal

#54. When I say that consciousness is an illusion I do not mean that consciousness does not exist. I mean that consciousness is not what it appears to be. If it seems to be a continuous stream of rich and detailed experiences, happening one after the other to a conscious person, this is the illusion.

Susan Blackmore

#55. Samadhi is perfect absorption to the point where there is no sense of being absorbed, not the consciousness of knowing that you are having an experience.

Frederick Lenz

#56. Consciousness is the fact that we think and feel and that a world, the world shows up for us.

Alva Noe

#57. It is very possible to acknowledge another person's concerns without entering into their vibration.

Alaric Hutchinson

#58. The sorcerer is a Simple Realist: the world is real
but then so must consciousness be real since its effects are so tangible.

Hakim Bey

#59. There cannot take place here a second existence, incomplete like the first, except by development of phenomena which are outside the normal consciousness; and this isolation of certain thoughts is again a result of the pathological retraction of the field of consciousness.

Anonymous

#60. The waves of love roll throughout the Universe, and overflow in our hearts..
Everything is ONE!

Dave Zebian

#61. Whether you think consciousness to be a benefit or a horror, this is only what you think - and nothing else.

Thomas Ligotti

#62. Consciousness is our gateway to experience: It enables us to recognize Van Gogh's starry skies, be enraptured by Beethoven's Fifth, and stand in awe of a snowcapped mountain. Yet consciousness is subjective, personal, and famously difficult to examine.

Daniel Bor

#63. What we mean by maturity in people's thinking is not a matter of how smart they are, but it is a matter of the order of consciousness in which they exercise their smartness or their lack of it.

Robert Kegan

#64. A believer, a mind whose faith is consciousness, is never disturbed because other persons do not yet see the fact which he sees.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#65. The Shariyat-Ki-Sugmad, which means the "Way of the Eternal," is the ancient scripture of Eckankar, the science of Soul Travel and total consciousness.

Shariyat-Ki-Sugmad Book One

Paul Twitchell

#66. Love is the path that guides the men to the fields of infinite LIGHT!

Dave Zebian

#67. The mind, the body and the world are made out of Consciousness but Consciousness is not made out of them. It is made out of itself. Therefore everything is made only out of Consciousness.

Rupert Spira

#68. The consciousness of my own baseness has done nothing to reconcile me to the baseness of others. Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another. I have no desire for that slimy brotherhood.

Milan Kundera

#69. In the end, it is all we are, these limpid tide pools of self-consciousness between crashing waves of pain. We are destined and designed to bear our pain with us, hugging it tight to our bellies like the young Spartan thief hiding a wolf cub so it can eat away our insides.

Dan Simmons

#70. When once the Heart is awakened, every single moment 'in-time' is a treasure to beheld

AainaA-Ridtz

#71. Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.

Eckhart Tolle

#72. Memory is essential to who we are, and memories can be both implicit and explicit - unconscious and conscious.

Siri Hustvedt

#73. Beckett despite his professed preference for Racine, is master and victim, and as such pervades Beckett's canonical drama, Endgame. Beckett's Hamlet follows the French model, in which excessive consciousness negates action, which is at some distance from Shakespeare's Hamlet.

Harold Bloom

#74. *Live fast, die young, and, leave a good looking corpse.* is dumb. When dead, looks matters not. (Furthermore, the corpse will only look good for a day, or, twelve.)

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#75. Consciousness may be seen as the haughty and restless second cousin of morphology. Memory is its mistress, perception its somewhat abused wife, logic its housekeeper, and language its poorly paid secretary

Gerald Edelman

#76. Gratitude is a divine attitude in the wisdom traditions. It takes you out from the ego self and takes you into the higher self. That higher state of consciousness initiates self repair, self regulation and healing.

Deepak Chopra

#77. A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#78. The Universe is alive, conscious, and aware.

Chris Prentiss

#79. I recall feeling an almost delicious terror when one day I found myself alone in the midst of tall June grasses that grew high as my head. But here the secret working of self consciousness is almost too entangled with the things of the past for me to explain it.

Pierre Loti

#80. The case for interconnectedness between conscious human lives is hard to deny.

Kat Lahr

#81. The true crisis in our world is not social, political, or economic, our crisis is the crisis of consciousness: an inability to directly experience our true nature, an inability to recognize this nature in everyone and in all things.

Daniel Schmidt

#82. We must know, if only in order to learn not to know. The supreme lesson of human consciousness is to learn how not to know. That is, how not to interfere.

D.H. Lawrence

#83. Gratitude is the most fruitful way of deepening your consciousness that you are a Devine choice.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#84. Because our consciousness is tied to the physical manifestation of reality, we are tied to the belief in separation.

Marianne Williamson

#85. When our consciousness is quiet, the waves of thought cease and we see clearly enough to relate back to our spirit. we connect with who we really are.

Alan Finger

#86. Freud's fundamental thought, on which these remarks are based, is formulated by the assumption that consciousness comes into being at the site of a memory trace.

Walter Benjamin

#87. Dreaming is a phenomenon of purely individual consciousness, and consequently impossible to thoroughly deconstruct by a community of researchers. But dreaming matters.

Andrew Weil

#88. What I have sought in love is a reprieve from the itch of consciousness -- to transcend myself and my human imperfections -- but this has yet to happen.

Melissa Broder

#89. 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.

Eckhart Tolle

#90. Even though it is common knowledge in our field of Neuroscience, I take immense pleasure every time I realize that our perception of the whole universe emerges from the activity of the little specks of jelly inside our skull.

Abhijit Naskar

#91. The common factor in all our experiences is wakeful consciousness which turns what happens into an experience or a meaningful reality.

Ilchi Lee

#92. In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social.

James Mark Baldwin

#93. Sufis aim to refine human consciousness. This is Sufi mysticism: not mystification or magic, but a specific Path.

Idries Shah

#94. Art-making is just another part of the consciousness industry.

Hans Haacke

#95. True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in ways that writers used to aspire to.

Don DeLillo

#96. Space is a unifying field of awareness in which you meet the other person without the separative barriers created by conceptual thinking. And now the other person is no longer 'other.' In that space, you are joined together as one awareness, one consciousness.

Eckhart Tolle

#97. It is tempting to think of this form of insomnia, the inability to fall asleep, as a disease of agency and control: the inability to relinquish high self-reflexive consciousness for the vulnerable, ignorant regions of slumber in which we know not what we do.

Siri Hustvedt

#98. See who is the doubter, who is the thinker. It is the ego. Hold it; the other thoughts will die away - the ego will be left pure. See the source from where the ego arises and abide in it. That is pure consciousness.

Ramana Maharshi

#99. The mark of a person who is in control of consciousness is the ability to focus attention at will, to be oblivious to distractions, to concentrate for as long as it takes to achieve a goal, and not longer. And the person who can do this usually enjoys the normal course of everyday life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#100. When you understand the law of divine compensation, you realize that in the presence of spiritual consciousness, there is more than enough compensation for any diminishment in materiality.

Marianne Williamson

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