Quotes About Consciousness

#1. Poetry is not about how we feel, of course. It's about how we feel about how we feel. Knowing how we feel about how we feel requires an almost ungodly attentiveness or consciousness - an otherworldly watchfulness and vigilance. As does - maybe? - love?

Adrian Blevins

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

Russell Brand

#3. We spend our lives telling ourselves the story of past and future, while the reality of the present goes largely unexplored. Now we live in ignorance of the freedom and simplicity of consciousness, prior to the arising of thought.

Sam Harris

#4. Being harmless means being so strong, so empowered, that the idea of showing power through harm is not even a part of your consciousness.

Gary Zukav

#5. Will smirked, clearly pleased at the effect he was having. I've no idea. I lost consciousness about then. I was having a lovely dream about a young woman who had mislaid all her clothes ...

Cassandra Clare

#6. I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.

Huey Newton

#7. You should do whatever feels right in your deepest heart. Feel deep as consciousness, open as water, now, and feel how to live with a wide-open heart. Feel how to live as love without bondage.

David Deida

#8. By consciously getting your body into a certain posture, you can also elevate your consciousness, you can change the very way you feel, think, understand, and experience life simply by sitting in a particular way.

Sadhguru

#9. The passions, the emotions, the affective domain of man's consciousness, are a part of nature's order too. The central part.

Robert M. Pirsig

#10. When we convene a group for gender healing and reconciliation, we are collectively taking similar action. We stretch ourselves to a larger consciousness and grace that is beyond our capacity, but within our reach.

William Keepin

#11. For me, consciousness is non-local, not limited to the body, and can exist independent of it.

Bernie Siegel

#12. Relationships are our primary teacher. They are the context in which we either grow into God consciousness, or deny ourselves and others the opportunity to do so.

Marianne Williamson

#13. The world that our senses and our consciousness habitually acquaint us with is now nothing more than the shadow of itself; and it is cold like death.

Henri Bergson

#14. If you really know how to ask the question 'Who am I?' you will inevitably be delivered into that state of silence and pure consciousness that is your true Being. The question 'Who am I?' will ultimately deliver you into the 'I am' of you.

Leonard Jacobson

#15. It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one's germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness!

Irvin D. Yalom

#16. By giving unusual people an easy way to find one another, the Internet has also enabled them to pool rare talents, resources, and voices, then push their case into public consciousness. The response, in many cases, is a kind of hysteria.

Virginia Postrel

#17. Consciousness is phenomenologically subjective whenever there is a stable, consciously experienced first-person perspective.

Thomas Metzinger

#18. He invaded my consciousness in the same way the ocean washes up on the beach, with sweeping tides of longing and regret, and with such power and raw force, I often woke with the taste of salt from my tears clinging to my skin. Joanna about Ben

Vicki Pettersson

#19. Self-consciousness is a man's worst enemy.

Nick Hornby

#20. Once you master how your own consciousness operates, anything can be desired and achieved.

Deepak Chopra

#21. We must move "out of our mind" and dwell in our consciousness.

Michael Tsarion

#22. Genetically modified foods and chemical drugs. Two things that will change our consciousness as we become slaves to the world we made, not what the Divine gave us to live in this place and space called earth.

Steven Machat

#23. The collective consciousness of mankind defines the existence and sustainability of this civilization.

Toba Beta

#24. Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as the reality of the external world, and it is just as imperfectly reported to us through the data of consciousness as is the external world through the indications of our sensory organs.

Sigmund Freud

#25. Often she had seemed to herself to be moving among those vanished figures of old books and pictures, an invisible ghost among the living, better acquainted with them than with her own friends. she very nearly lost consciousness that she was a separate being, with a future of her own.

Virginia Woolf

#26. His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama My Ass
When empathy becomes a trend,
we haven't reached a higher level of consciousness,
just a higher level of competition.

Beryl Dov

#27. Generally I try to avoid discussing consciousness, since it's, like, hard.

Robert Kurzban

#28. Creative Arts raise a person to another level of consciousness as if you could imagine life before words.

Charlie Haden

#29. A full-spectrum approach to human consciousness and behavior means that men and women have available to them a spectrum of knowing -a spectrum that includes, at the very least, the eye of flesh, the eye of mind, and the eye of spirit.

Ken Wilber

#30. We are consciousness examining and expressing itself so that it can become increasingly aware of its infinite capacity for being and evolving.

Jay Woodman

#31. No problem is ever solved in the same consciousness thas was used to create it.

Albert Einstein

#32. When I came to consciousness my whole interest was in wild animals.

Ted Hughes

#33. Art is community's medicine for that worst disease of the mind, the corruption of consciousness

Robin G. Collingwood

#34. I think the existence of zombies would contradict certain laws of nature in our world. It seems to be a law of nature, in our world, that when you get a brain of a certain character you get consciousness going along with it.

David Chalmers

#35. If I want to realize totality in my consciousness, I have to relate myself to an immense, ludicrous, and painful convulsion of all of humanity.

Georges Bataille

#36. As the child's mind was growing into knowledge, his mind was growing into memory: as her life unfolded, his soul, long stupefied in a cold, narrow prison, was unfolding too, and trembling gradually into full consciousness.

George Eliot

#37. The ocean, under the pulsation of lighthouses and noise of bell
buoys,
advances as usual, looking as if it were not that ocean in which
dropped things are bound to sink
in which if they turn and twist, it is neither with volition nor
consciousness.

Marianne Moore

#38. Conceit and arrogance are acquired states of mind. Conquer acquired states of mind, and basic sanity can unfold. Passion and willfulness are part of false consciousness; erase false consciousness, and true consciousness will appear.

Zicheng Hong

#39. All speech, action and behavior are fluctuations of consciousness. All life emerges from, and is sustained in, consciousness. The whole universe is the expression of consciousness. The reality of the universe is one unbounded ocean of consciousness in motion.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#40. The language of [Catholic] mysticism - its repeated attempts to lay consciousness itself bare and speak all the intensely opposing yet interconnected parts of it that cannot be spoken.

Helen Oyeyemi

#41. I am conscious of my own limitations. That consciousness is my only strength.

Mahatma Gandhi

#42. Whenever our life is stirred by truth, it expresses energy and comes to be filled, as it were, with a creative ardor. This consciousness of the creative urge is evidence of the force of truth on our mind.

Rabindranath Tagore

#43. The compass represents spirituality, no end and no beginning ... the ruler represents 'tangible evidence' ... a measurable event ... both coming together shall represent a Human Being ... the intersection of life and consciousness ...

Tom DeLonge

#44. If a dragon has already transferred their consciousness to their heart of hearts, then they will die a true death.

Christopher Paolini

#45. Let's absurdify life, from east to west.
Let us play hide-and-seek with our consciousness of living.

Fernando Pessoa

#46. Our great human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain.

Tom Robbins

#47. Lao Tzu
The key to growth is the introduction
of higher dimensions of consciousness
into our awareness.

Lao-Tzu

#48. What's fascinating is that when you write a script, it's almost a stream of consciousness. You have an idea that it means something, but you're not always sure what. Then when you get on the set, the actors teach you.

Gary Oldman

#49. The brain itself does not produce consciousness. That it is, instead, a kind of reducing valve or filter, shifting the larger, nonphysical consciousness that we possess in the non physical worlds down into a more limited capacity for the duration of our mortal lives.

Eben Alexander

#50. Perhaps the universe is a big fat consciousness and the matter is just an illusion.

Erol Ozan

#51. What else should our lives be but a continual series of beginnings, of painful settings out into the unknown, pushing off from the edges of consciousness into the mystery of what we have not yet become.

David Malouf

#52. The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.

Rudolf Virchow

#53. If science could get rid of consciousness, it would have disposed of the only stumbling block to its universal application.

Brand Blanshard

#54. Man is the "ethical animal" ethical in potentiality even if, unfortunately, not in actuality. His capacity for ethical judgment like freedom, reason and the other unique characteristics of the human being is based upon his consciousness of himself.

Rollo May

#55. Life is not determined by consciousness, but consciousness by life.

Karl Marx

#56. The canker of self-consciousness has been long in me, so like a lot of writers I not only do a thing, I see myself doing it too - it's almost like not being alone. That morning our hero skipped in his skivvies down to the shore of the sea . . . it was dark . . . the fog . . . Storytelling!

Charles D'Ambrosio

#57. The real subject of autobiography is not one's experience but one's consciousness. Memoirists use the self as a tool.

Patricia Hampl

#58. Spiritual energy-the energy that comes from pure consciousness-is the creative energy of the universe.

Deepak Chopra

#59. By penetrating to the core of our own being, we can make contact with the consciousness at the center of the universe.

Richard Smoley

#60. When souls really touch, it is forever. Then space and time disappear, and all that remains is the consciousness that we are not alone in life.

Joan D. Chittister

#61. There is very little moral mixture in the 'Antislavery' feeling of this country. A great deal is abstract philanthropy; part is hatred of slaveholders; a great part is jealousy for white labor, very little is consciousness of wrong done and the wish to right it.

George William Curtis

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

Jeremy Gilley

#63. Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#64. Let your thoughts, intentions, imaginations, and dreams fly under a clear blue sky with a spring breeze floating like a butterfly from flower to flower. See the beauty of mankind. Enjoy the nectar of life. It will shift your awareness to a higher consciousness.

Debasish Mridha

#65. There are vast realms of consciousness still undreamed of -vast ranges of experience, like humming of unseen harps, we know nothing of, within us.

D.H. Lawrence

#66. Ascension through all levels of consciousness and awareness can only happen when you live life as you, and not how others think you should live. How could self-realization possibly be anything other than being yourself?

Bryant McGill

#67. The most important concept ever put forth was that matter, ALL matter, with no exceptions from stone to star to starfish to student to sovereign, is as divine as all else in the cosmos, for all flows from Consciousness, the Word that came before the World - and all, in time, will flow back.

Ki Longfellow

#68. This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

#69. But I would assert that despite the wide variety of yoga options and individual preferences, there is one universal element: the union of consciousness and movement, breath and awareness.

Carre Otis

#70. As the practical value of altering consciousness becomes recognized, procedures to effect these alterations will become increasingly ordinary and unremarkable. The whole concept of changing states of consciousness will cease to have a threatening or exotic aspect.

Michael Crichton

#71. In a certain sense a writer is 'selected' by his subject - his subject being the consciousness of his own era.

Nadine Gordimer

#72. Consciousness is our only reprieve from Time.

Mason Cooley

#73. Consciousness of error is, to a certain extent, a consciousness of understanding; and correction of error is the plainest proof of energy and mastery.

Walter Savage Landor

#74. Consciousness is the stone that creates the waves in a sea of nothing

Richard Gerber

#75. The soul is bound to the body by a chain of desires, temptations, troubles and worries, and it is trying to free itself. If you keep tugging at that chain which is holding you to mortal consciousness, some day an invisible Divine Hand will intervene and snap it apart and you will be free.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#76. Only one thing I expect from all of you: to be yourself, to discover your inner beauty, your purity of consciousness, your hidden splendor - and spread it to as many people as possible. People are miserable. Help them to laugh a little, to sing a little, to dance a little.

Rajneesh

#77. Sadly, semi-consciousness, along with daydreaming, is a capacity that is actively discouraged among children in schools, and our society is much poorer and harsher as a consequence. The value of liminal space and transitional imagination remain personally and culturally undeveloped.

Michael Leunig

#78. People enter states of consciousness where they think they've become enlightened. The best thing to do, if you've gone through one of those phases, is to be sensible, laugh at yourself for how foolish you were.

Frederick Lenz

#79. The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.

Eric Hoffer

#80. He was in a terrible state- that of consciousness.

Martin Amis

#81. Everyone has a right to change their consciousness, but ultimately the whole process is misleading.

Robyn Hitchcock

#82. Of all the qualities of human beings that are injured, narrowed, or repressed in the Corporate State, it is consciousness, the most precious and the most fragile, that suffers the most.

Charles A. Reich

#83. My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.

Karl Kraus

#84. Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.

William James

#85. Before you sleep, experience yourself as what you really are by recognizing the vast space inside you, and feeling the Energy-Consciousness, LifeParticles, overflowing through the space and through your body.

Ilchi Lee

#86. A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity.

Charles Ives

#87. It was under a solemn consciousness of the dangers from ecclesiastical ambition, the bigotry of spiritual pride, and the intolerance of sects ... that is was deemed advisable to exclude from the national government all power to act upon the subject.

Joseph Story

#88. Your 'hara' is here, where your uterus is if you're a woman, where the tummy sticks out if you're a man, the centre of gravity of the human body. It is the synthesis of our intellect, body and spirit, and by developing our consciousness of it, we can become incredibly rooted.

Scilla Elworthy

#89. National consciousness is truly a miraculous thing. When I am not in Turkey I feel even more Turkish than in Istanbul. But when I'm home my European side becomes more apparent.

Orhan Pamuk

#90. The Veil of Consciousness is a thin sheath that
I wear to view the transparency of the life that
Surrounds me.

Sandra Proto

#91. After long absence, of return / To my dear home - Oh, happiness! / To lie in blissful consciousness / Of all around: The picture there - / The books - the flower-glass filled with care / By a kind hand - And then to know, / 'Twas but to rise, and meet below / Such a heart's welcome!

Caroline Anne Southey

#92. The important thing is how much consciousness you add to the whole of human existence, for that is how eternity expresses itself.

Deepak Chopra

#93. You are the byproduct of your level of consciousness, thoughts, and actions.

Debasish Mridha

#94. IT'S NOT ONLY YOU BUT HE TOO IS LOOKING FOR YOU.OPEN YOUR EYES TO LIFE AND CONSCIOUSNESS.

Kunal Narayan Uniyal

#95. Acheron is the Greek Underworld river, timelessly flowing beneath Middle World consciousness, circulating through our bloodstreams in varying states from polluted to pristine. Freud was fond of this line from Virgil's Aeneid: "If I cannot bend the gods, then I shall stir up Acheron.

Mary Trainor-Brigham

#96. I've become remarkably good at blocking impossibly bizarre happenings from my consciousness. Denial can be a beautiful thing.

M.A. George

#97. The study a posteriori of the distribution of consciousness shows it to be exactly such as we might expect in an organ added for the sake of steering a nervous system grown too complex to regulate itself.

William James

#98. I believe the biggest advancement in DJ culture is that DJs are being vocal and are a voice to raise the consciousness of the masses towards making our planet awaken from the hypnosis of the matrix.

DJ QBert

#99. All spiritual experiences are sensations in the body. They are simply a graded series of sensations, beginning with the solidity of earth and passing gradually, in full consciousness, through liquidness and the emanation of heat to that of a total vibration before reaching the Void.

Sri Anirvan

#100. Human pain does not let go of its grip at one point in time. Rather, it works its way out of our consciousness over time. There is a season of sadness. A season of anger. A season of tranquility. A season of hope.

Robert Veninga