Consciousness Quotes - Page 7

Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement.

The reality, as I have come to understand it, is that the future is not fixed, and that therefore it cannot be reliably predicted. Consciousness interacts with vast archetypal fields of possibility and probability. What actually happens is the result of the collision of both forces.

Can we reach biosphere consciousness and global empathy in time to avert planetary collapse?

The main obstacle to our development is our lack of knowledge about the nature of consciousness itself.

The ultimate Consciousness is always present everywhere. It is beyond space and time, with not before or after. It is undeniable and obvious. So what can be said about it?

Time past and time future allow but a little consciousness. To be conscious is not to be in time.

Science can explain what's happening down inside atoms and what's happening at the edge of the universe, but it cannot explain consciousness. It's a paradox--withou t consciousness there would be no science, but science doesn't know what to do, at all, with consciousness.

Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.

Ten minutes in a video store should convince any impartial observer that we live in a police state of consciousness, far more pervasive than the Nazis.

The ideal of a pure phenomenology will be perfected only by answering this question; pure phenomenology is to be separated sharply from psychology at large and, specifically, from the descriptive psychology of the phenomena of consciousness.

All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy of Being.

Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.

I had vainly been seeking a description of consciousness within science; instead, what I and others have to look for is a description of science within consciousness. We must develop a science compatible with consciousness, our primary experience.

Consciousness is not mind; it is the ground of all being, the ground of both matter and mind. Matter and mind are both possibilities of consciousness.

We don't settle for anything less than excellence.

The hardest thing in making a movie is to keep in the front of your consciousness your original response to the material. Because that's going to be the thing that will make the movie. And the loss of that will break the movie.

Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.

It's not the world that needs to change - it's our consciousness we must raise

I think that the consciousness of passion makes you act very differently.

The time will come when mankind will begin to get away from the consciousness of needing so many material things. More security and peace will be found in the simple life.

Having a place means that you know what a place means...what it means in a storied sense of myth, character and presence but also in an ecological sense...Integrating native consciousness with mythic consciousness

Why should the peculiarities of human consciousness be the narrow standard by which other creatures are judged?

There is a universal intelligence that we call God or Soul or Spirit or Consciousness, and it is everywhere and in all things.

fundamentally an organism has conscious mental states if and only if there is something that it is like to be that organism--something it is like for the organism.

Consciousness has forced us into the paradoxical position of striving to be unself-conscious of what we are - hunks of spoiling flesh on disintegrating bones.