Consciousness Quotes - Page 8

Indeed, the interests of the oppressors lie in 'changing the consciousness of the oppressed, not the situation which oppresses them.

A person can make himself happy, or miserable, regardless of what is actually happening 'outside,' just by changing the contents of consciousness.

I am strongly convinced that not only too much consciousness but even any consciousness at all is a sickness.

Nationalism is not the awakening of nations to self-consciousness; it invents nations where they do not exist.

It's not about what you do, it's about being. It's about a state of consciousness or state of awareness of being where you're residing within your heart and everything begins to change without actually doing anything.

Our very essence is Absolute Consciousness; without an I, without the consciousness of every individual, nothing really exists.

A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.

Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions.

The two exist because of the One, But hold not even to this One; When the one Consciousness -is not disturbed, The ten thousand things offer no offence.

The only Revolution that can really change the world is the one in your own consciousness, and mine has already begun.

Control of consciousness determines the quality of life.

Many people mistakenly suppose that the essence of consciousness is that of a control mechanism

I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.

Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.

Simple design, intense content.

That which we do not bring to consciousness appears in our lives as fate.

Without consciousness there would, practically speaking, be no world, for the world exists as such only in so far as it is consciously reflected and considered by a psyche. Consciousness is a precondition of being.

Is there anything more terrible than perpetual motion, than doing and doing and doing, without a reason, without a consciousness, without a change, without an end?

It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.

There was a thrust to raise the consciousness of the people and we argued that in order to free ourselves we must be ourselves, Africans, a people oppressed and in struggle. And we must be self-conscious about this.

Fears and lies intensify consciousness.

Time and again human consciousness fixates, and slams the door on its greatest gift, the open-endedness of infinite possibility. As a result we do not experience reality but merely our concept of it.

Where consciousness is concerned, the appearance is the reality.

One un-vents something; one unearths it; one digs it up; one runs it down in whatever recesses of the eternal consciousness it has gone to ground.

Consciousness of exclusion through naming is acute. Identities seem contradictory, partial, and strategic.