Quotes About Consciousness

Pure knowledge is not imparted by another; it comes unmasked. It is the one that is listening: it is your own true nature.

A grateful environment is a substitute for happiness. It can quicken us from without as a fixed hope and affection, or as the consciousness of a right life, can quicken us from within.

Our life evokes our character. You find out more about yourself as you go on. That's why it's good to put yourself in situations that will evoke your higher nature rather than your lower.

We live in a web of ideas, a fabric of our own making.

When you're blind to your own nature, the Buddha is an ordinary being. When you're aware of your own nature, an ordinary being is the Buddha.

When we are conscious of our personal uniqueness and our universal nature we express ourselves creatively. In this way we fulfill our dreams and our life purpose.

The eye transmits its own image through the air to all the objects which face it, and also receives them on its own surface, whence the "sensus communis" takes them and considers them.

The very reason for nature's existence is the education of the soul; it has no other meaning.

If thou thinkest twice before thou speakest once, thou wilt speak twice the better for it.

What's most interesting about trying to figure out AI is the questions that it forces you to ask about the nature of consciousness.

Man's will is free in the sense that man can choose to do anything in keeping with his nature . . . Man's will is not free in that he is limited to his nature

Nature has no use for the plea that one 'did not know'.

There are no watertight compartments in our inmost nature.

I think human consciousness is a misstep in evolution. We became too self-aware, nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself. We are creatures that should not exist by natural law.

To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun.

Let us try to recognize the precious nature of each day.

One who is caught in thought loses one's original nature. All he knows are words and descriptions. When he sees the actual thing, he fails to perceive it.

Our "job," our intention as spiritual beings in a body, is to express our true nature - to fully know ourselves as expressions and individuations of the Divine.

The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. In meditation we divest ourselves of all material condition and feel our divine nature.

Our essential nature is pure consciousness, the infinite source of everything that exists in the physical world.

To become aware of the subtlety of nature you need to be alert. The moment you become alert you become still... thinking subsides. That is actually a higher state of consciousness than thinking.

Being is not only beyond but also deep within every form as its innermost invisible and indestructible essence. This means that it is accessible to you now as your own deepest self, your true nature.

The question of immortality is of its nature not a scholarly question. It is a question welling up from the interior which the subject must put to itself as it becomes conscious of itself.

You have not known even a fragment of My reality. The full nature of this reality can never be understood by anyone.