Consciousness Quotes

The Behaviorist cannot find consciousness in the test-tube of his science.

Shiva and Shakti are indistinguishable. They are one. They are the universe. Shiva isn't masculine. Shakti isn't feminine. At the core of their mutual penetration the supreme consciousness opens.

Shiva is chidambaram, like the inner sky. Shiva is the inner sky of consciousness

Thus one should know oneself to be of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss[Sat-Chit-Ananda].

Without the ability to think about yourself, to reflect on your life, there’s really no awareness, no consciousness. Consciousness doesn’t come automatically; it comes through being alive, awake, curious, and often furious.

Pain narrows consciousness; pleasure blurs it.

Remain true to yourself, but move ever upward toward greater consciousness and greater love! At the summit you will find yourselves united with all those who, from every direction, have made the same ascent. For everything that rises must converge.

A grid is like underwear, you wear it but it's not to be exposed.

A change of circumstance happens as a result of a change in your state of consciousness.

Widen your consciousness to the dimension of the earth and you will have a place for everything.

The first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God.

Consciousness is Gods' gift to mankind.

Man is above all else mind, consciousness -- that is, he is a product of history, not of nature.

Conflict exists strictly as an opportunity to raise our consciousness.

His essential nature is sat-chit-ananda: (Sat) Absolute Being - He encompasses everything because there is nothing outside of him; (Chit) Absolute Consciousness - He is the complete consciousness

Education is the basic tool for the development of consciousness and the reconstitution of society.

In truth, ideology has very little to do with 'consciousness', even supposing this term to have an unambiguous meaning. It is profoundly unconscious, even when it presents itself in a reflected form.

Man's chief delusion is his conviction that there are causes other than his own state of consciousness.

When you have abandoned all past and future, it is as if you have come alive. You are here, mindful...the nature of all types of consciousness reveals itself.

The quality of our life depends on the quality of the seeds that lie deep in our consciousness.

There can only be one solution to any problem: a change in attitude and in consciousness.

God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Whatever the result may be, I shall carry to my grave the consciousness that I at least meant well for my country.

Love, consciousness, and creativity are the highest refinements of the cosmic evolutionary force.

What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you're not getting the whole thing that's there to be had.

The world is known by the senses The senses are known by the mind The mind is known by Consciousness And Consciousness is known by itself

As Aurobindo and Teilhard de Chardin knew, the future of humankind is God-consciousness.

If typography is calling attention to itself, it's taking that attention away from what the words are saying.

When you have so much pain, you think you will lose consciousness. If you say to yourself, ‘So what, lose consciousness,’ the pain goes away.

There is no kind of framework within which we can find consciousness in the plural; this is simply something we construct because of the temporal plurality of individuals, but it is a false construction... The only solution to this conflict insofar as any is available to us at all lies in the ancient wisdom of the Upanishad.

The greatest barrier to consciousness is the belief that one is already conscious.

Consciousness ... is the phenomenon whereby the universe's very existence is made known.

To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.

You govern your surroundings by the nature of what is taking place in your consciousness.

Magick is the art of causing changes in consciousness to occur in accordance with the will.

Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom.

Samsara - our conditioned existence in the perpetual cycle of habitual tendencies and nirvana - genuine freedom from such an existence- are nothing but different manifestations of a basic continuum. So this continuity of consciousness us always present. This is the meaning of tantra.

Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.

Only when you can understand yourself as All Pervading Consciousness can you possibly understand that all the universe is an emanation of your mind. Everything that you see comes out of you.

We — mankind — stand at the center of an evolutionary crisis, with a new evolutionary device — our consciousness of the crisis — as our unique contribution.

Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness.

The Truth is inseparable from who you are. Yes, you are the Truth. If you look for it elsewhere, you will be deceived every time.

I have no sense of nationalism, only a cosmic consciousness of belonging to the human family.

May we always be possessed by the consciousness that we are not our own.

Creativity is the state of consciousness in which you enter into the treasury of your innermost being and bring the beauty into manifestation.

All there is in your life is the eternal now moment - and your experience of this moment is created by the programming in your head.

Every organism exists as a vehicle for the ennoblement of water into consciousness.

When we turn the mind inwards, God manifests as the inner consciousness.

We are called by God to do theology, that is, to live our lives with a moment-by-moment consciousness of God.

Death is simply a break in our linear stream of consciousness.