State Of Consciousness Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. Tragedy takes us to the very state of consciousness which, were we to hold to it, would go far toward preventing further tragedies.

Marianne Williamson

#4. And that is how we are. By strength of will we cut off our inner intuitive knowledge from admitted consciousness. This causes a state of dread, or apprehension, which makes the blow ten times worse when it does fall.

D.H. Lawrence

#5. Every hour of your life that ticks by, there are numerous points and moments when you can choose to pause - and be aware of your mental and physical state. At any given point, you can freeze the flow that is your life, and be fully conscious for a moment.

Kevin Michel

#6. You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you, and allowing that goodness to emerge. But it can only emerge if something fundamental changes in your state of consciousness.

Eckhart Tolle

#7. There is no substitute for finding true purpose. But the true or primary purpose of your life cannot be found on the outer level. It does not concern what you do but what you are - that is to say, your state of consciousness.

Eckhart Tolle

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

Eckhart Tolle

#9. Change of state is not the point; recognizing the Changeless is the point, recognizing primordial Emptiness is the point, and if you are breathing and vaguely awake, that state of consciousness will do just fine.

Ken Wilber

#10. A new heaven is the emergence of a transformed state of human consciousness. And A New Earth is it's direct reflection in the physical realm.

Eckhart Tolle

#11. Consciousness is a state of existence where subjects are aware of their surroundings and can respond to its demands according to internal and external perceptions.

Debasish Mridha

#12. In my lifetime, I've met a lot of people who never rode a wave, but we share the same consciousness. Surfing is a kind of a state of mind ... I mean, it's a feeling that people have about their life that really, in a way, kind of makes them a surfer.

Gerry Lopez

#13. The Dalai Lama visited the White House and told the President that he could teach him to find a higher state of consciousness. Then after talking to Bush for a few minutes, he said, 'You know what? Let's just grab lunch.'

Bill Maher

#14. Although an increasing number of humans are undergoing a process of awakening, identification with thinking is still the prevalent state of consciousness. Thinking is potentially a powerful tool, but it has taken us over, and a lot of it is dysfunctional and negative.

Eckhart Tolle

#15. Humans are potentially capable of living in a state of consciousness compared to which normal wakefulness is like sleeping or dreaming.

Eckhart Tolle

#16. The whole purpose of life is to gain enlightenment.
Nothing else is significant compared to that completely natural, exalted state of consciousness.
So always strive for that.
Set your life around that goal.
Don't get caught up in small things, and then it will be yours.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#17. The very idea of higher states of consciousness is absurd. Comparing one state of consciousness to another and saying one is "higher" and the other is "mundane" is like eating a banana and complaining it's not a very good apple.

Brad Warner

#18. Sensation is not the conduction of a quality or state of external bodies to consciousness, but the conduction of a quality or state of our nerves to consciousness, excited by an external cause.

Johannes P. Muller

#19. Having reached a high level of realization (or having accomplished anything in life), don't get excited or puffed up with pride but remain calm, humble, and in "perfect equanimity" if you want to continue in this deep state of consciousness.

Laozi

#20. I drink a glass of wine or two occasionally with dinner. 'You drink alcohol?!' Well, if my state of consciousness is so fragile that a glass of wine would upset it, then it can't be worth very much.

Eckhart Tolle

#21. The question of whether enlightenment is a permanent state need not detain us. The crucial point is that you can glimpse something about the nature of consciousness that will liberate you from suffering in the present.

Sam Harris

#22. When we imagine ourselves to be in a state of mind, no matter what, we are in that state of mind, and thus in that state of illness which we imagine ourselves to be in, in every state that we imagine ourselves in.

Thomas Bernhard

#23. Unity consciousness is a state of enlightenment where we pierce the mask of illusion which creates separation and fragmentation. Behind the appearance of separation is one unified field of wholeness. Here the seer and the scenery are one.

Deepak Chopra

#24. An individual's state of consciousness (awareness) simply means his ability to accept change in his life. It includes new thoughts and new feelings, and the new behavior and actions that will naturally come as a result.

Harold Klemp

#25. From a pure metaphysical perspective, there is no world outside ourselves. So, at the deepest level, the state of the planet is more a reflection of the consciousness of mankind than the consciousness of mankind is a reflection of world events.

Marianne Williamson

#26. The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

Paul Twitchell

#27. Neither failure nor success has the power to change your inner state of Being.

Eckhart Tolle

#28. When we are in touch with our creativity, through passion and excitement, we always put ourselves in the most expansive state of consciousness. Fear slows down our development, while love supports a rapid growth.

Raphael Zernoff

#29. Everyday conscious awareness of a human being is only the tip of an iceberg, underneath which there is a realm of relatively uncharted apparently mysterious processes, which are likely to be way more complex than the usual waking state.

Abhijit Naskar

#30. Banning capital punishment takes us to a higher state of consciousness.

Jerry Brown

#31. As you meditate, you will find that consciousness itself will move you beyond time and space and condition into a larger, vaster, more beautiful state of awareness.

Frederick Lenz

#32. If you want to know the state of your personal consciousness, just look around and see what is happening to you.

Deepak Chopra

#33. The state of least excitation of consciousness is the field of all possibilities.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#34. To pursue mental operations to any depth, a person has to learn to concentrate attention. Without focus, consciousness is in a state of chaos.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#35. If we are in a high enough state of consciousness we see that life is only a passing dream.

Frederick Lenz

#36. Since it is in the nature of consciousness to be reflective, we can never fully inhabit any conscious state that we are in, so that our 'restlessness' lies in the very nature of our being.

Thomas E. Wartenberg

#37. What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behavior is that people would choose an altered state of consciousness that's toxic and ostensibly destroys most aspects of your normal life, because for a brief moment you feel okay.

Moby

#38. Whether we are in a pleasant or a painful state depends, finally, upon the kind of matter that pervades and engrosses our consciousness and what we compare it to - better and we envious and sad, worse and we feel grateful and happy.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#39. I think death is just a transition to another state of consciousness.

Val Kilmer

#40. Enlightenment is the natural state of consciousness, the innocent state of consciousness, that state which is uncontaminated by the movement of thought, uncontaminated by control or manipulation of mind.

Adyashanti

#41. Enthusiasm is a heightened state of consciousness, and it's one of the best feelings there is to feel.

Danielle LaPorte

#42. We Neuroscientists have come a long way in proving that God is neither a Delusion nor an Almighty Being watching over life on Earth. God is the Event Horizon of Human Consciousness. I termed this state of attaining God, as 'Absolute Unity Qualia'.

Abhijit Naskar

#43. Ten minutes in a video store should convince any impartial observer that we live in a police state of consciousness, far more pervasive than the Nazis.

Hakim Bey

#44. Never allow the opinions of other people defined your state of mind.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#45. The mastery of any subject requires that one identify himself with the particular state of consciousness appropriate to that subject.

Swami Kriyananda

#46. Mindfulness is Buddha's word for meditation. By mindfulness he means: you should always remain alert, watchful. You should always remain present. Not a single thing should be done in a sort of sleepy state of mind. You should not move like a somnambulist, you should move with a sharp consciousness.

Rajneesh

#47. Paradise is not a place; it's a state of consciousness.

Sri Chinmoy

#48. Enlightenment is the unaltered state of consciousness

Adyashanti

#49. Real Evolution is a state of consciousness. To really and truly evolve, means to align with the truth; to align with something other than the illusion and delusion of the ego mind and lower states of consciousness.

Arielle Hecht

#50. The key is to be in a state of permanent connectedness with your inner body - to feel it at all times. This will rapidly deepen and transform your life. The more consciousness you direct into the inner body, the higher its vibrational frequency becomes.

Eckhart Tolle

#51. Your state of consciousness defines your state of mind and your state of happiness.

Debasish Mridha

#52. Your true world is your state of consciousness and awareness where your minds dwells and dances.

Debasish Mridha

#53. Balance is the natural state of life, because the basic characteristic of the fundamental element of life, pure consciousness, is complete balance.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#54. At its highest, love is a religious state of consciousness. I love you too, Buddha loves, Jesus loves, but their love demands nothing in return.

Rajneesh

#55. What the future holds for you depends on your state of consciousness now.

Eckhart Tolle

#56. Obviously there is pain in childbirth. But giving birth is also a moment of awe and wonder, a moment when the true miracle of aliveness, and of a woman's amazing part in that miracle, is suddenly experienced in every cell of one's body. It is in that sense truly an altered state of consciousness.

Riane Eisler

#57. Time' is the illusional domain occupied by the state of boredom. 'Space' is the infinite - reality - experienced by the state of higher creative consciousness. Choose wisely.

T.F. Hodge

#58. You think, you become that thought. And consciousness, or the state of pure awareness, is lost.

Barry Long

#59. The mind has grown to its present state of consciousness as an acorn grows into an oak, or as saurians developed into mammals.

Carl Jung

#60. Used as rocket fuel, sex energy can lift our consciousness to the stars to experience a state of being where love exists in and for itself and has no opposite. On a soul level, this is our natural state.

John Maxwell Taylor

#61. The English expression 'to fall asleep' is apt because the transition between waking and sleeping is a gradual drop from one state of being into another: a giving up of full self-consciousness for unconsciousness or for the altered consciousness of dreams.

Siri Hustvedt

#62. Flow is more than an optimal state of consciousness - one where we feel our best and perform our best - it also appears to be the only practical answer to the question: What is the meaning of life? Flow is what makes life worth living.

Steven Kotler

#63. Man's chief delusion is his conviction that there are causes other than his own state of consciousness.

Neville Goddard

#64. A state of consciousness is characteristically very transitory; an idea that is conscious now is no longer so a moment later, although it can become so again under certain conditions that are easily brought about.

Sigmund Freud

#65. The aim of Zen training is to attain the state of consciousness which occurs when the individual ego is emptied of itself and becomes identified with the infinite reality of all things.

Anne Bancroft

#66. God is simply a magnificent state of the mind, where the finite turns infinite.

Abhijit Naskar

#67. A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.

Ernest Dimnet

#68. It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.

Benito Mussolini

#69. For most of us enlightenment is not a destination or graduation into a permanent higher state of consciousness, but a moment-by-moment experience constantly fluctuating between degrees of wholeness and limited consciousness. I like to call this enlightening-ment.

Jennifer Howard

#70. Kingdom of Heaven is really a metaphor for a state of consciousness.

Cynthia Bourgeault

#71. Either death is a state of nothingness and utter consciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another. Now if death be of such a nature, I say that to die is to gain; for eternity is then only a single night.

Plato

#72. The "kingdom of heaven" to which he referred was the state of God-consciousness, not the beautiful astral heavens that most people visualize, where virtuous souls go after death.

Goswami Kriyananda

#73. Consciousness is not confined within an individual brain. Otherwise, how can it cause changes in the physical state of things outside the brain?

Ilchi Lee

#74. Her mind was still tiptoeing along the boundary of consciousness, in that state of semi-waking that spins threads between dream and real, and for a moment she felt herself to be a girl who has come down off a porch to confront a great darkness with a tiny light.

Laini Taylor

#75. If you were in a perfected state of consciousness, you would only see perfection in all things.

Frederick Lenz

#76. To be awake is to be fully present, no noise, just you and God. Most of us only have seconds of full consciousness. To live in a state of Samadhi - that's what we're here for.

Russell Simmons

#77. Judging from the state of my consciousness at the time, millions of years of hominid evolution had produced nothing more transcendent than a craving for a cheeseburger and a chocolate milkshake.

Sam Harris

#78. If you are not taking responsibility for your state of consciousness, you are not taking responsibility for life.

Eckhart Tolle

#79. Most people find it difficult to believe that a state of consciousness totally free of all negativity is possible.

Eckhart Tolle

#80. Awakening into the God state makes all the perceptual limitations of the mind disappear, just like a bucket of muddy water turns crystal-clear once poured into the ocean.

Abhijit Naskar

#81. 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.

Eckhart Tolle

#82. 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.

Eckhart Tolle

#83. how "spiritual" you are has nothing to do with what you believe but everything to do with your state of consciousness. This, in turn, determines how you act in the world and interact with others. Those

Eckhart Tolle

#84. I believe dreams connect us to our ancestors and it is through creativity that we can tap into this in the conscious state. Creativity is a sort of trance that we have as artists that erases time and space.

Lorin Morgan-Richards

#85. Everyone has sunk on this plane to such a low state of consciousness, it is the natural state. We have deviated so far from the norm in this age of darkness.

Frederick Lenz

#86. How it is that anything so remarkable as a state of consciousness comes about as a result of irritating nervous tissue, is just as unaccountable as the appearance of the djinn when Aladdin rubbed his lamp in the story.

Thomas Henry Huxley

#87. I do believe in God. I don't believe in God as a person, but I believe in God as a state of energy and consciousness that we all share.

David Dobkin

#88. The planet will not survive another hundred years of the same state of consciousness that produced the external effects of recent history.

Eckhart Tolle

#89. Destiny' is the state of perfect mechanical causation in which everything is the consequence of everything else. If choice is an illusion, what's life? Consciousness without volition. We'd all be passengers, no more real than model trains.

Nick Harkaway

#90. Your state of consciousness, right now, will determine what you manifest in the future.

Christopher Dines

#91. To be still means to empty yourself from the incessant flow of thoughts and create a state of consciousness that is open and receptive.

John Daido Loori

#92. Your state of consciousness today is not the same as it used to be or as it will be in two weeks or a couple of years from now.

Harold Klemp

#93. It has always been the role of the shaman to go into an altered state of consciousness and track down where the soul fled to in the alternate realities and return it to the body of the client.

Sandra Ingerman

#94. Jinn ... occupy bodies which are in a liminal state ... when consciousness is a sheet of copper beaten down, mirroring only the moment

J.M. Ledgard

#95. Paradise is a state of consciousness. All you have to do is purify yourself and you automatically arrive.

David Wolfe

#96. A change of circumstance happens as a result of a change in your state of consciousness.

Neville Goddard

#97. [T]here is a certain kind of child who awakens from a book as from an abyssal sleep, swimming heavily up through layers of consciousness toward a reality that seems less real than the dream-state that has been left behind. I was such a child.

Anne Fadiman

#98. A compassionate heart will lift you out of the pain and suffering of your own world because it knows that everyone is doing the best they can, given their state of consciousness and the histories they're dragging behind them.

Debbie Ford

#99. Simplicity is everywhere in nature, and meditation is a natural state. Meditation is a state of peaceful equilibrium, the fourth state of consciousness, and is always available to every single human being.

Gudjon Bergmann

#100. For me, performance is a holy ground. When I perform, I really step into a different state of consciousness.

Marina Abramovic