Conscious Quotes - Page 10

Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement.

The reality, as I have come to understand it, is that the future is not fixed, and that therefore it cannot be reliably predicted. Consciousness interacts with vast archetypal fields of possibility and probability. What actually happens is the result of the collision of both forces.

To deal with things knowledge of things is needed. To deal with people, you need insight, sympathy. To deal with yourself, you need nothing. Be what you are--conscious being--and don't stray away from yourself.

Change happens not by trying to make yourself change, but by becoming conscious of what's not working.

Conscious writing can be the death of poetry.

Can we reach biosphere consciousness and global empathy in time to avert planetary collapse?

Never utter a word if it is not from your navel point and it doesn't confirm your regal, highest self.

The longer I live the more conscious I am of human frailty, and of the constant, overwhelming need we all have of God’s grace.

The main obstacle to our development is our lack of knowledge about the nature of consciousness itself.

The ultimate Consciousness is always present everywhere. It is beyond space and time, with not before or after. It is undeniable and obvious. So what can be said about it?

Time past and time future allow but a little consciousness. To be conscious is not to be in time.

Science can explain what's happening down inside atoms and what's happening at the edge of the universe, but it cannot explain consciousness. It's a paradox--withou t consciousness there would be no science, but science doesn't know what to do, at all, with consciousness.

Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.

I will also tell you a secret. We have to will one another: this is the beginning of conscious love.

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.

The ideal of a pure phenomenology will be perfected only by answering this question; pure phenomenology is to be separated sharply from psychology at large and, specifically, from the descriptive psychology of the phenomena of consciousness.

All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy of Being.

Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.

People in Sweden are very conscious of what people are saying about you.

I had vainly been seeking a description of consciousness within science; instead, what I and others have to look for is a description of science within consciousness. We must develop a science compatible with consciousness, our primary experience.

Consciousness is not mind; it is the ground of all being, the ground of both matter and mind. Matter and mind are both possibilities of consciousness.

We don't settle for anything less than excellence.

The hardest thing in making a movie is to keep in the front of your consciousness your original response to the material. Because that's going to be the thing that will make the movie. And the loss of that will break the movie.

Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.

It's not the world that needs to change - it's our consciousness we must raise