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Quotes About Consciousness

When it comes to Kerala, reasoning gets the upper hand rather than emotions.Our political outlook is related to the educational standards and political consciousness.
~ Joy Mathew
In every conversation I've had - with housewives in Mumbai, with middle-class people, upper-class, in the slums - everyone says there is an underlying consciousness of karma. That people believe in karma - that what you're putting out is going to come back. If I do something to you, the energy of it is going to come back to me in the future.
~ Deepak Chopra
Babies choose to lackadaisically notice the quirkiest of details - unlike us grown ups, who choose instead to focus on what we believe is most essential to us. As a result, babies have a greater expanded consciousness than us grown-ups!
~ Karen Salmansohn
Your true nature is that of infinite spirit. The feeling of limitation is the work of the mind.
~ Ramana Maharshi
My work is about your seeing. There is a rich tradition in painting of work about light, but it is not light -- it is the record of seeing. My material is light, and it is responsive to your seeing.
~ James Turrell
Being humble doesn't work as well as being aware.
~ Drake
Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.
~ James Allen
Beginning is not only a kind of action. It is also a frame of mind, a kind of work, an attitude, a consciousness.
~ Edward Said
Anyway, there is a lot of really interesting work going on in the neuroscience and psychology of consciousness, and I would love to see philosophers become more closely involved with this.
~ David Chalmers
Carl Jung called this his shadow work. He said we never see others. Instead we see only aspects of ourselves that fall over them. Shadows. Projections. Our associations.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Do what you do only for God's sake, start for God's sake, work for God's sake, and act within the sphere of God's good approval.
~ Bediüzzaman Said Nursî
The more conscious I am of the work God has yet to do in me, the less critical I am about what he has yet to do in you
~ Andy Stanley
We are infected by our own misunderstandin g of how our own minds work.
~ Kevin Kelly
Those who have not become enlightened will have to return to another, denser planet that is still involved with negativity, to work out their remaining karma.
~ Dolores Cannon
Your mind is what makes everything else work.
~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
My left brain is doing the best job it can with the information it has to work with. I need to remember, however, that there are enormous gaps between what I know and what I think I know.
~ Jill Bolte Taylor
Life is not accomplishing some special work but attaining to a degree of consciousness and inner freedom which is beyond all works and attainments.
~ Thomas Merton
It is fair to say that science provides no method of controlling the mind. Scientific work on the brain does not explain the mind-not yet.
~ Wilder Penfield
It is the witness alone that can work without any desire, without any idea of going to heaven, without any idea of blame, without any idea of praise. The witness alone enjoys, and none else.
~ Swami Vivekananda
We affirm the harmony that we seek in order to provide the subconscious with a blue print of the work to be done.
~ Emmet Fox
The happy individual is able to renew daily and with full consciousness all the basic expressions of human identity: work, love, communication, play, and rest.
~ Robert Grudin
But there is another danger besetting your path. I mean the error of regarding your own capacities instead of your work, of putting self-consciousness in place of God.
~ Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Work in the invisible world at least as hard as you do in the visible.
~ Rumi
I never take drugs. I took ecstasy when I was in Ibiza once, but it didn't work for me. I think I was already on ecstasy when I was born.
~ Pedro Winter