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Quotes About Consciousness

There is nothing to practice. To know yourself, be yourself. To be yourself, stop imagining yourself to be this or that. Just be. Let your true nature emerge. Don't disturb your mind with seeking.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings.
~ Oscar Wilde
...Therefore it is said: 'The perception of a phenomenon IS the perception of the Universal Nature, since phenomena and Mind are one and the same.'
~ Huangbo Xiyun
Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Bring awareness to the many subtle sounds of nature - The rustling of leaves in the wind, Raindrops falling, The humming of an insect, The first birdsong at dawn.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Nature is favourable to our effort when human awareness is being established more and more in pure consciousness.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Modesty in human beings is praised because it is not a matter of nature, but of will.
~ Lactantius
Why is there such a gap between nonspeaking animals and speaking man, when there is no other such gap in nature?
~ Walker Percy
This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness.
~ Michael Pollan
You and I are the force for transformation in the world. We are the consciousness that will define the nature of the reality we are moving into.
~ Ram Dass
By exhaustively examining one's own mind,one may understand his nature.One who understands his own nature understands Heaven.
~ Mencius
Tomorrow-drop that word from your vocabulary! Tomorrow does not exist, it cannot exist: it is not in the nature of things. Only this day exists.
~ Rajneesh
You are the master of all the laws of nature if you know the transcendental field.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Human nature is the same now as when Adam hid from the presence of God; the consciousness of wrong makes us unwilling to meet those whom we have offended.
~ Matthew Simpson
The psychedelics are this immense tool for the inspection of our own nature.
~ Terence McKenna
I think people are isolated because of the nature of human consciousness, and they like it when they feel the connection between themselves and someone else.
~ James Taylor
People often ask how I got interested in the brain; my rhetorical answer is: 'How can anyone NOT be interested in it?' Everything you call 'human nature' and consciousness arises from it.
~ Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Do you know when you may concede your insignificance? Before God or, perhaps, before the intellect, beauty, or nature, but not before people. Among people, one must be conscious of one's dignity.
~ Anton Chekhov
Our Soul is a spark of the Divine. It is pure and perfect. Evil deeds merely obstruct our vision of the true nature of our Soul. Through good deeds we can become conscious of this perfection again.
~ Swami Vivekananda
The force fields of nature are force fields of consciousness. They are force fields of knowledge.
~ Deepak Chopra
Man, before he is being regenerated, does not even know that any internal man exists, much less is he acquainted with its nature and quality.
~ Emanuel Swedenborg
Perceiving your own voice means perceiving your true self or nature. When you and the sound become one, you dont hear the sound; you are the sound.
~ Seungsahn
How can an unsteady mind make itself steady? Of course it cannot. It is the nature of the mind to roam about. All you can do is to shift the focus of consciousness beyond the mind.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
When you look out of your eyes at nature happening out there...You're looking at you.
~ Alan Watts