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Quotes About Consciousness

Words to invoke peace & awareness. Words to create freedom and fairness. Words to plant sacred seeds. and sing us back into balance.
~ Jay Woodman
Self-observation helps us to refocus within, to balance ourselves and to be in the present moment....
~ Jacqueline Ripstein
Being --- a state that is open to life yet connected to this moment" Cinderella in Focus: Cindy's Secret
~ hlbalcomb
Freedom will remain elusive as long as there remains a 'self' to be freed.
~ Darryl Diptee, Free Your Mind
The public hardly suspects that their purchase of cosmetics, pet food, toothpaste, eggs and other common items have, in all likelihood, caused some form of animal suffering.
~ Marianne Thieme
The dog knows, but does not know that he knows.
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
~ Marcel Proust
We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
~ Alan W. Watts
Each waking day is a stage dominated for good or ill, comedy, farce, or tragedy, by a dramatis personae, the 'self', and so it will be until the curtain drops.
~ Charles Scott Sherrington
There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.
~ Richard M. Rorty
It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
~ James Joyce
Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
~ Samuel Beckett
Attaining consciousness is connected with the gradual liberation from mechanicalness, for man is fully and completely under mechanical laws.
~ P.D. Ouspensky, The Fourth Way
The soul exists partly in eternity and partly in time.
~ Marsilio Ficino
We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Our understanding is correlative to our perception.
~ Robert Delaunay
Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?
~ Harold Pinter
The state of man's mind, or the elementary phase of mind which he so far possesses, conforms precisely to the state of the world as he so far views it
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Between living and dreaming there is a third thing. Guess it.
~ Antonio Machado
For me, Buddhism is a psychology and a philosophy that provides a means, upayas, for working with the mind.
~ Joan Halifax
My philosophy on getting knocked out is that it renders you unconscious and numb, so why worry about it.
~ Forrest Griffin
I Should Just Stop Tweeting, The Human Consciousness Must Raise Before I Speak My Juvenile Philosophy.
~ Jaden Smith
The spectacle is at the same time the mirage of self in the mirror of things.
~ Paul Ricoeur