Quotes About Consciousness

It is the empty pitcher that makes a noise when you knock upon it, but the pitcher which is full of water does not make any sound; it is silent, speechless.

As soon as thought is restricted, it ceases to be Sufism.

The soul apart from the body and mind is a sound, a note, a tone, which is called in Sanskrit Svara.

For instance man feels the sensation of joy and depression in the center called solar plexus; however, this does not mean that joy or depression is there, but that this center is sensitive to such experiences.

Every motion contains within itself a thought and feeling.

What does it mean to become spiritual, or godly? It means to have a higher view of life, to look at life from a higher point of view. It is the high point of view in life which ennobles the soul; it is by a broad outlook on life that spiritual aristocracy is realized.

There are two aspects of life: the first is that man is tuned by his surroundings, and the second is that man can tune himself in spite of his surroundings.

It is more important to find out the truth about oneself than to find out the truth about heaven and hell, or about many other things which are of less importance and are apart from oneself. However, every man's pursuit is according to his state of evolution, and so each soul is in pursuit of something—but he does not know where it leads him.

When the soul is attuned to God, every action becomes music.

If the soul does not hear the call and sleeps, it is not the fault of nature, which is continually calling. Therefore, if I were to say in a few words, how to find one's purpose, I would say: by waking from sleep.

When the healer thinks he is healing, his power is as small as a drop; when he thinks God is healing, and when owing to this thought his own self is forgotten and he is only conscious of the Self of God, then his power becomes as large as the ocean. (Inayat Khan's advice to healers)

Impression is a great phenomenon in itself: as a man thinketh so is he.

Each note, each scale, and each strain expires at the appointed time; and at the end of the soul's experience here the finale comes; but the impression remains, as a concert in a dream, before the radiant vision of the consciousness.

Wir alle sind das, wovon wir uns bewusst sind. Gefängnisinsassen wissen von ihrem Gefängnis. Menschen, die viel Geld auf der Bank haben, aber dessen nicht bewusst sind, sind trotz ihres Reichtums arm. Wir haben nur das, wovon wir bewusst sind. Deshalb beruht unsere Größe oder unsere Kleinheit auf unserem Bewusstsein. Selbst eine erleuchtete Seele zu werden, beruht nur auf einem Unterschied im Bewusstsein. (s. 181)

There must be something besides you to cause the sensation. But peace is independently felt within oneself. It is not dependent upon the outer sensation. It is something that belongs to one, something that is one's own self.

There is a perfect wisdom working continually day and night. The mystic sees it in everything with open eyes; and that is the great miracle.

for to know reality is to know all that is to be known.

Consciously or unconsciously we call to us that element which makes us what we are. What we experience in life, therefore, has either come from what we have already called to us in the past, or from what we call at the present moment. It

the human niche is niche switching. More specifically, we argue that the human niche is to move between the paired, inverse modes of culture and consciousness.

Through parallel processing of multiple human minds, our consciousness can become collective, and we can solve problems that neither we could solve as individuals nor our ancestors could have even imagined.

In times of stability, when inherited wisdom allows individuals to prosper and spread across relatively homogeneous landscapes: Culture reigns. But in times of expansion into new frontiers, when innovation and interpretation, and communication of new ideas, are critical: Consciousness reigns.

novel levels of novelty, such as we are experiencing now, are a special danger. This means that what's needed today—and urgently—is a call to consciousness on a scale that we have not seen before.

One truth that emerges from understanding consciousness in this way is that it makes little sense to assume that individual consciousness evolved first, or that it is the most fundamental form of consciousness.

What's the biggest and most important problem I can solve with my gifts and skills? Or: How do I find my consciousness, my truest self?