Quotes About Consciousness

Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?

Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something.

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

Our Essence of Mind is intrinsically pure, and if we knew our mind and realized what our nature is, all of us would attain Buddhahood.

What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.

In listening and stillness there is nobody who is still, and this stillness doesn't refer to any object; it is absolutely objectless; it is our real nature.

To be awake is to be alive.

The source of all light is in the eye.

He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.

Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.

In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.

Everything we make pollutes. The most responsible thing we can do is to make each product as well as we know how so it lasts as long as possible.

Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.

The origin of the conflict, frustration, and anxiety we experience does not lie in the nature of the world itself but in our distorted conceptions of the world.

Nature is neither pleasant nor painful. It is all intelligence and beauty. Pain and pleasure are in the mind.

He who goes to the bottom of his own heart knows his own nature; And knowing his own nature, he knows heaven.

Consciousness is the basis of all life and the field of all possibilities. Its nature is to expand and unfold its full potential. The impulse to evolve is thus inherent in the very nature of life.

The deepest, the intelligible, part of the nature of man is that part which does not take refuge in causality, but which chooses in freedom the good or the bad.

Man lives, not directly or nakedly in nature like the animals, but within a mythological universe, a body of assumptions and beliefs developed from his existential concerns.

You know that you are. Don't burden yourself with names, just be. Any name or shape you give yourself obscures your real nature.

The possibilities that are suggested in quantum physics tell us that everything that we're looking at may not be in fact there, so the underlying nature of being is weird.

Don't think that examining and knowing the nature of your mind is just an Eastern trip. That's a wrong conception. It's your trip.

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

Our reality is influenced by our notions about reality, regardless of the nature of those notions