Quotes About Consciousness

Man is a universe in little [Microcosm].

A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow as well as himself - and what is a man's shadow but his upright astonishment?

Hell and Heaven are near man, yes, in him; and every man after death goes to that Hell or heaven in which he was, or to his spirit, during his abode in the world.

Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.

Man's task is simple. He should cease letting his existence be a thoughtless accident.

When one sees that everything exists as an illusion, one can live in a higher sphere than ordinary man.

The inner life is the whole man, and forms all the worth of man.

Man recognizes that he will not die, only when he recognizes that he was never born, but always has been, is, and will be.

I have said that the modern man, and especially the modern American, however much 'know-how' he may have, has very little 'know-what'

In one sense Brahman is known to every human being; he knows, "I am"; but man does not know himself as he is.

Man is the nearest approach to Brahman.

Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.

Man exists only insofar as he is separated from his surroundings. The cranium is a space-traveler's helmet. Stay inside or you perish.

Man is not an organism; he is an intelligence served by organs.

The most affluent man is he that confronts all the shows he sees by equivalents out of the stronger wealth of himself.

God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.

And it is characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes family and a state.

WE HAVE SEEN that hunger and breathing are desires of the body. There are other desires that are not of the body, but again man seldom pauses to observe these desires in himself.

Man is the mirror God holds up to himself, the sense organ with which he apprehends his being.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Shape I may take, converse I may, but neither god nor Buddha am I, rather an insensate being whose heart thus differs from that of man.

Two things strike me dumb: the infinite starry heavens, and the sense of right and wrong in man.

If there is no meditation, then you are like a blind man in a world of great beauty, light and colour.

To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.