Consciousness Quotes - Page 17

You don't meditate to experiment with altered states of consciousness or whatever else. You meditate only to perceive by yourself that everything is within us, every atom of the universe, and that we already possess everything we would wish to find outside of ourselves.

Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery.

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

All I'm saying is that minerals are just a rudimentary form of consciousness whereas the other people are saying that consciousness is a complicated form of minerals.

Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.

All science is experiential; but all experience must be related back to and derives its its validity from the conditions and context of consciousness in which it arises, i.e., the totality of our nature.

In dream consciousness we make things happen by wishing them, because we are not only the observer of what we experience but also the creator.

With the arrival of humans, it has been said, the universe has suddenly become conscious of itself. This, truly, it the greatest mystery of all.

Man can become like God and acquire control over the whole universe if he multiplies infinitely his centre of self-consciousness.

I make an idol of my moral consciousness. My pursuit of the good is corrupted by the sin of idolatry.

Art is a form of consciousness.

The singularity has nothing to do with consciousness.

Peace of counscious is greater than peace of mind. Peace of mind is more externally oriented. Peace of consciousness is when you know you have been honest in all your business dealings.

Next to meditation is music, soulful music, the music that stirs and elevates our aspiring consciousness.

As one individual changes, the system changes.

A witnessing consciousness lives in life but with tremendous non-attachment, with great non-possessiveness; it possesses nothing. It lives totally, it lives passionately, but still knowing that I don't possess anything.

The emergence of consciousness, like the unfolding of a leaf, relies upon restraint.

I regard individuality as the most precious trait we have, because without it there is no creativity, there is no consciousness, there is no rationality. There is nothing that could make me speak more strongly to this point.

The governing idea of Hellenism is spontaneity of consciousness ; that of Hebraism, strictness of conscience .

Consciousness in the individual is that area where the totality of life is located.

Partly I was honing my self-consciousness into a torture device, sharp and efficient enough to last me the rest of my life.

Consciousness of our strength increases it.

I don't talk about consciousness. I talk about interiority.

Language comes into being, like consciousness, from the basic need, from the scantiest intercourse with other human.

There is no such thing as a complete consciousness.