Consciousness Quotes - Page 13

An accepted deed is never small in Taqwa (consciousness of Allah), how can what has been accepted be small?

While there seem to be many things to manage in the world, the most important thing to manage is your consciousness.

A significant part of the pleasure of eating is in one’s accurate consciousness of the lives and the world from which food comes.

Human beings have a right to change their consciousness, and it is unconscionable and absolutely wrong for any government or any person to stand in the way of someone choosing to change their consciousness.

Our perception of space alters the space. It is consciousness that finds meanings in all spaces

Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses.

Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences.

If you can't raise consciousness, at least raise hell.

Another thing that's good about writing to describe a situation or a state of consciousness is that you can finally get it right. That was my intention, and that's always interesting.

Across planes of consciousness, we have to live with the paradox that opposite things can be simultaneously true.

You do your best work when you're not conscious of yourself.

Running is the classical road to self-consciousness, self-awareness, and self-reliance.

This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness.

Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.

Both dance and dream are brought into being by the consciousness of a moment. They can never be repeated or successfully imitated. But you can dance and dream again. You must, if life is to continue.

As the watcher of the screen, you are perfect. The movie that is playing on the screen might be horrendous, but you are not the movie. You are what is watching the movie.

Test everything, including assumptions

Consciousness allows you the capacity to plan.

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

I have a much easier time imagining how we would understand the big bang, even though we can't do it yet, than I can imagine understanding consciousness.

If you completely accept something, it changes. If you completely accept it, it shifts.

Ultimately, there is no such thing as "my consciousness," but just the one consciousness and to sense your connectedness with the one (I can sense that continuously, which is why I can say that I know this for sure) to sense that connectedness with the one consciousness that pervades the universe, which in some traditions is called God, to sense that frees you of fear, from anxiety, and takes you to a very deep place of peace, but also of heightened aliveness.

What happens is consciousness operates in mysterious ways. One of those ways is that the old paradigm suddenly starts to die.

Consciousness is the original sin: consciousness of the inevitability of our death.

It is on the whole probably that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it.