Consciousness Quotes - Page 21

Total revolution of consciousness and our entire social, political and economic system is what interests me, but that's not on the ballot.

Consciousness exists beyond your head, between our heads, and it can manifest harmony.

This moment of dawning is called taqwa - God-consciousness, and ihsan - awareness. Suddenly you know that God can see you and knows you, even if you do not know or see Him.

Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.

Everyone has a right to change their consciousness, but ultimately the whole process is misleading.

Human consciousness is too obscure a mystery to itself for us to script our own lives.

The factor that frequently determines whether people are going to make a particular choice is not the factor that counsels wisely or the one that leads to the greatest economic benefit. It's the one that's top of the consciousness in the moment.

The reason why the simpler sort are moved by authority is the consciousness of their own ignorance

It's very likely that most mammals have consciousness, and probably birds, too.

Faith, consciousness, and awareness all exist beyond the thinking mind.

True compassion arises out of the plane of consciousness where I AM you.

God cannot be found outside you, because there is no God who can ever be outside you. God is the ultimate fragrance of your consciousness. When your consciousness opens like a lotus, the fragrance that is released is God - better to call it godliness.

The more we are happy in Krishna Consciousness, the more we become purified.

Spirituality is revival of our God consciousness, not creating something new.

Consciousness is the grave of things, the place where they cease to exist, beyond which they end. And when they have ended, it seems that they no longer have any essential existence except in the visions in me.

The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.

I was like you are. I thought Jesus came and died on the cross. Jesus' being here was about his death and dying on the cross but it really was about him coming to show us how to do it. To show us the Christ-consciousness that he had and that conciousness abides in all of us. That's what I got. That's what I got.

Fear and caution are two different things. Be cautious - be conscious - but do not be fearful. Fear only paralyzes, while consciousness mobilizes. Be mobilized, not paralyzed.

In a certain sense a writer is 'selected' by his subject - his subject being the consciousness of his own era.

This was exactly what the girl had most dreaded all her life and had scrupulously avoided until now: lovemaking without emotion or love. She knew that she had crossed the forbidden boundary, but she proceeded across it without objections and as a full participant; only somewhere, far off in a corner of her consciousness, did she feel horror at the thought that she had never known such pleasure, never so much pleasure as at this moment--beyond that boundary.

Control over consciousness cannot be institutionaliz ed. As soon as it becomes part of a set of social rules and norms, it ceases to be effective in the way it was originally intended to be.

Consciousness is a disease.

Eat with consciousness. When you eat with consciousness, and you know what you're eating, and you eat it in full appreciation of what it is, it's enormously satisfying.

I think human consciousness is a misstep in evolution. We became too self-aware, nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself. We are creatures that should not exist by natural law.

Consciousness is our only reprieve from Time.