Consciousness Quotes - Page 19

Consciousness is not the ineluctable starting point for self-understanding because there is a difference between being conscious and understanding oneself as a conscious being. The difference is between being in a certain state and knowing oneself to be in a certain state.

There is not enough self-consciousness about what a family can be, about what it can inherit from forbearers, and what new traditions it can start as a contributor to the community.

There are moments when you can't believe something wonderful is happening. And there are moments when your entire consciousness is filled with knowing absolutely that something wonderful is happening.

There's a constant drip and trickle of life that goes into one's awareness really and consciousness of things.

I have always felt that humor was a wonderful vehicle to let us become connected with each other and ourselves… I try to portray the similarities and polarities in men and women, so that we can acknowledge and embrace our collective consciousness.

You always have enough to be happy. It's the patterns in your head that make you unhappy.

Love is the omnipresent force of the universe; it unifies energy and consciousness.

Most of my bits are long stream-of-consciousness- type things, and when I'm doing them onstage, other places to take the theme or idea will hit me, and I just go with it.

You are the vanguard of knowledge and consciousness; a new wave in a vast ocean of possibilities.

The consciousness that says 'I am' is not the consciousness that thinks.

I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on.

I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.

Often, even after years, mental states once present in consciousness return to it with apparent spontaneity and without any act of the will; that is, they are reproduced involuntarily.

Hypostatized into a ritual pattern, Marxian theory becomes ideology. But its content and function distinguish it from classical forms of ideology; it is not false consciousness, but a rather consciousness of falsehood, a falsehood which is corrected in the context of the higher truth represented by the objective historical interest.

Consciousness is the ultimate Reality; compared with it, all else is illusion.

Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it.

I want the Pope to have the Christ consciousness. I don't want to just talk about Christ.

From within, from the very most interior center of existence and consciousness, the fact of oneness evermore proves to be the overriding truth.

...physics is the study of the structure of consciousness.

Although your mind works, your heart is darkened with depravity; and without a pure heart there can be no complete and true consciousness

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.

Salvakalpa samadhi is a tremendous acceptance and liberation, but it is not complete absorption in nirvana, in that consciousness.

Consciousness is never experienced in the plural, only in the singular. Not only has none of us ever experienced more than one consciousness, but there is also no trace of circumstantial evidence of this ever happening anywhere in the world. If I say that there cannot be more than one consciousness in the same mind, this seems a blunt tautology - we are quite unable to imagine the contrary...

Thinking is no more than a tiny aspect of the totality of consciousness, the totality of who you are.

What I know for sure is that I am a temporary expression in physical form of the one consciousness that expresses itself throughout the universe. I am not separate from that.