Browsing Topic Best Consciousness Quotes

Living consciously involves being genuine; it involves listening and responding to others honestly and openly; it involves being in the moment.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

The greatest meditation is a mind that let’s go.

Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.

We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.

What is hell?…The suffering that comes from the consciousness that one is no longer able to love.

You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.

Socialism is precisely the religion that must overwhelm Christianity. … In the new order, Socialism will triumph by first capturing the culture via infiltration of schools, universities, churches and the media by transforming the consciousness of society.

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

I came to the conclusion that we should aspire to increase the scope and scale of human consciousness in order to better understand what questions to ask. Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.

The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness.

The experience of not forgetting consciousness alone is the state of devotion which is the relationship of unfading real love, because the real knowledge of Self, which shines as the undivided supreme bliss itself, surges up as the nature of love. Love itself is the actual form of God. That is pure bliss. Call it pure bliss, God, Self, or what you will. That is devotion, that is realization and that is everything.

We’re all affected by music. It has the power to inspire, uplift us, change our moods, and even alter consciousness.

… my today’s self perpetually slips out of any hold of it that I may try to take.

You are purer than the pure. Never manifold, you are individual Consciousness.
Unborn, unchanging, all-pervasive You are a mountain of joy.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

There are many who feel consciously hopeful and unconsciously hopeless, and there are few for whom it is the other way around.

Vedanta teaches that consciousness is singular, all happenings are played out in one universal consciousness and there is no multiplicity of selves.

We must forget bodily consciousness like a deer which is infatuated by music. We must look up to God, as the young ones of a tortoise look up to their mother. As a fountain rises upwards, even so must one’s spirit rise to God. One should entertain no idea whatsoever, except that of God.

Physiology seeks to derive the processes in our own nervous system from general physical forces, without considering whether these processes are or are not accompanied by processes of consciousness.

As the fish doesn’t know water, people are ignorant of space. Consciousness is concerned only with changing and varying details; it ignores constants-especially constant backgrounds. Thus only very exceptional people are aware of what is basic to everything.

Anarchism is the only philosophy which brings to man the consciousness of himself; which maintains that God, the State, and society are non-existent, that their promises are null and void, since they can be fulfilled only through man’s subordination.

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

All the things that truly matter, beauty, love, creativity, joy and inner peace arise from beyond the mind.

Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as the reality of the external world, and it is just as imperfectly reported to us through the data of consciousness as is the external world through the indications of our sensory organs.

You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness.

Sobriety itself is today’s high, for it is ultimately in the most centered consciousness that we find our power to transcend the world.

People involved in the inner journey discover the value of the feminine, the spiritually receptive and inclusive aspect of human consciousness.

Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason.

To be free from bondage the wise person must practise discrimination between One-Self and the ego-self.
By that alone you will become full of joy, recognising Self as Pure Being, Consciousness and Bliss.

The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it Intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don’t know how or why.

Charity is never so lovely as when one has lost consciousness that one is practicing charity. ‘You mean I helped you? I was enjoying myself. I was just doing my dance. It helped you, that’s wonderful. Congratulations to you. No credit to me.’

If the moon, in the act of completing its eternal way around the earth, were gifted with self-consciousness, it would feel thoroughly convinced that it was traveling its way of its own accord on the strength of a resolution taken once and for all. So would a Being, endowed with higher insight and more perfect intelligence, watching man and his doings, smile about man’s illusion that he was acting according to his own free will.