Quotes About Consciousness

Your most important gear is your eye, heart and soul.

A great artist is conscious of the talent and the power he possesses, otherwise he would not see his faults, and so would not be able to improve.

Art is a consciousness-provoking vessel.

A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.

There can only be one solution to any problem: a change in attitude and in consciousness.

Circumstances don't matter, only my state of being matters. What state of being are you choosing?

All that we are is the result of what we have thought; what we think we become.

When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.

Without awareness of bodily feeling and attitude, a person becomes split into a disembodied spirit and a disenchanted body.

There is an objective reality out there, but we view it through the spectacles of our beliefs, attitudes, and values.

Get hold of the main thing: That the world and the self are one and perfect. Only your attitude is faulty and needs readjustment.

Our usual attitude is of 'I am this'. Separate consistently and perseveringly the 'I am' from 'this' or 'that', and try to feel what is means to be, just to be, without being 'this' or 'that'.

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Control thought-forms are the basis of our deepest moral crisis.

The rare moment is not the moment when there is something worth looking at, but the moment when we are capable of seeing.

The quickest method for understanding and living your purpose, is to ask yourself if you're thinking in loving ways.

A warrior takes responsibility for his acts, for the most trivial of acts. An average man acts out his thoughts, and never takes responsibility for what he does.

All your behavior results from the thoughts that precede it.

Our focus is our reality. What we choose to focus on becomes our world. It produces our thoughts, values, attitudes, and beliefs.

Accept the present moment without judgement.

What we call reality is a subset of accessible spaces.

What I always hoped for out of the psychedelic voyaging was to bring back something. I always felt, and still feel, that that is the attitude with which you should go into these things.

Take a friendly attitude toward your thoughts.

Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio describes emotions as the continuous musical line of our minds, the unstoppable humming. This basso continuo thrums along while doctors make a steady stream of conscious medical decisions.