Consciousness Quotes - Page 12

The soul is your innermost being. The presence that you are beyond form. The consciousness that you are beyond form, that is the soul. That is who you are in essence.

The most rigid structures, the most impervious to change, will collapse first.

That which you do not bring to consciousness comes to you as your Fate, that which you do bring to consciousness, whether it was what you thought you wanted or not, is your destiny.

The idea that consciousness is the ground of being is the basis of all spiritual traditions.

Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.

Everybody has a high point and a lot goes into that: timing, situation, general consciousness.

Suffering occurs when something is taken for what it's not , rather than for what it is.

Free will and consciousness is an illusion, and the self is a complex of memes.

We can arrive at a point of view where the preservation of the individual activities is no longer inconsistent with our comprehension of the cosmic consciousness or our attainment to the transcendent and supracosmic.

Our practice is not to clear up the mystery. It is to make the mystery clear.

The ill effects of thought come about when we forget that thought is a function of our consciousness.. an ability that we as human beings have. We are the producers of our own thinking.

A creature that cannot grasp the mutual exclusiveness of A and not A has no difficulty in lying; more than that, such a creature has not even any consciousness of lying, being without a standard of truth.

One should always be a little improbable.

I have found that long durational art is really the key to changing consciousness. On such a deep level. Not just the performer, but the one looking at it.

Nature is favourable to our effort when human awareness is being established more and more in pure consciousness.

Increasing consciousness = increasing complexity.

I always tell my students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don't let anyone throw you off.

Science cannot destroy the consciousness of freedom, without which there is no morality and no art, but it can refute it.

A feeble mind, conscious of its own feebleness, grows feeble under that very consciousness. As soon as the power of fear becomes known to it, there follows the fear of fear, and, on the first perturbation, reason abandons it.

Slowly but inexorably crawling upon my consciousness and rising above every other impression, came a dizzying fear of the unknown; a fear all the greater because I could not analyse it, and seeming to concern a stealthily approaching menace; not death, but some nameless, unheard-of thing inexpressibly more ghastly and abhorrent.

In the consciousness of eternity, time is not, neither is space. In man's consciousness there appears so much mercy, so much love, that these have been called time and space.

Everyone's got consciousness.. . Grow that ball of consciousness and all avenues of life improve. Your work just blossoms.

What does it mean, exactly, for a given system to be a "neural correlate of consciousness"?

A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence.

It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!