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Quotes About Consciousness

the severing of the link, not just the link—the understanding—between human beings and the planet they live on. They scramble the intelligence that connects eggs to hens, milk to cows, food to forests, water to rivers, air to life and the earth to human existence.39
~ Vandana Shiva
It is indisputable that evolved thinking recognizes the universality of Life.
~ Vanna Bonta
Love's not an emotion. It's a state of being, an ability.
~ Vanna Bonta
Human migration beyond Earth is our destiny, not as in something preordained, but in the sense of it being inevitable and necessary. The lot of humanity seems to be that of expanding consciousness into new territory.
~ Vanna Bonta
If form follows function, as we know it does in this Universe, then consciousness will adapt to whatever form it requires in order to function. Hopefully, it will also develop its fundamental function; what that is may be debatable within many schools of thought, but it is indisputable that evolved thinking recognizes the universality of Life.
~ Vanna Bonta
Human forms are perpetuated through sex, and sex also perpetuates human consciousness.
~ Vanna Bonta
How do we define consciousness, or what has been called the human soul or the spirit, if it can't be quantified as matter or a particle?... it can be quantified or observed just by a process of elimination.
~ Vanna Bonta
Don't let sleep overtake you; the world's awake within you.
~ Unknown
Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
~ Vernon Howard
Every day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth, is a supremely successful day.
~ Vernon Howard
Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.
~ Vernon Howard
We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
~ Vernon Howard
Your level of mental awareness attracts the habitual life you lead.
~ Vernon Howard
To return to the basic idea, you must see that there is a difference between your True Self and your False Self. The True Self is the essential you. It is pure, unconditioned, natural, spiritual. It has nothing to do with ego-competition, pretense, self-deception, pride, vanity, arrogance, and other negativities that keep a man afraid. All such items belong to the False Self.
~ Vernon Howard
What a dawning appears to the man or woman who earnestly inquires, 'Who is living my life for me?' Am I really thinking for myself or am I unknowingly projecting acquired ideas which may be all wrong?
~ Vernon Howard
Remember: when you are "You" - That is enlightenment.
~ Unknown
The fact is, that having once seen Alice Oke in the reality, it was quite impossible to remember that one could have fancied her at all different: there was something so complete, so completely unlike every one else, in her personality, that she seemed always to have been present in one's consciousness, although present, perhaps, as an enigma.
~ Vernon Lee
We are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth. The precise cause of this change is the imminent creation by technology of entities with greater than human intelligence.
~ Vernor Vinge
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~ Vernor Vinge
The vibrational forces of the planes have both vast and tiny proportions that, once understood, can be influenced by the power of pure thought.
~ Unknown
A theta brainwave state is a very deep state of relaxation, a dream state, always creative, inspirational, and characterized by very spiritual sensations. I believe this state allows access to the subconscious mind and opens a direct conduit to communication with the divine. I believe that once you say the word 'God,' you are holding a conscious theta wave.
~ Unknown
Are you thinking about what you're thinking about?
~ Unknown
Did I know who I was, or did I just learn to forget myself?
~ Vicente Aleixandre
Normally we are so identified with our thoughts and emotions, that we are them. We are the happiness, we are the anger, we are the fear. We have to learn to step back and know our thoughts and emotions are just thoughts and emotions. They're just mental states.
~ Unknown