Quotes About Consciousness

Superstitions are all materialism, because they are all based on the consciousness of body, body, body. No spirit there. Spirit has no superstitions - it is beyond the vain desires of the body.

We desire to understand the world by giving names to the things we see, but these things are only the effects of something subtle.

Your private thoughts give birth to your public acts.

The destiny of every human being is decided by what goes on inside his skull when confronted by what goes on outside his skull.

We are the creators, not only of our own destiny, but ultimately we are the creators of universal destiny. We are the creators of the universe.

From a yogic perspective, stillness, coupled with expanded awareness, is by far the most powerful medium by which you can affect your destiny.

Which brings me to my conclusion upon Free Will and Predestination, namely - let the reader mark it - that they are identical.

Destiny is consciousness of oneself, but consciousness of oneself as an enemy.

That which you do not bring to consciousness comes to you as your Fate, that which you do bring to consciousness, whether it was what you thought you wanted or not, is your destiny.

Our destiny is to become what we think, to have our thoughts become our bodies and our bodies become our thoughts.

Being condemned by fate to perpetual togetherness, we better make that shared fate into our shared, consciously and gladly embraced, destiny.

Our acts of voluntary attending, as brief and fitful as they are, are nevertheless momentous and critical, determining us, as they do, to higher or lower destinies.

But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.

Your choices are really very limited. They are limited by your level of awareness. If you can change your level of awareness radically, then you can change your destiny.

Each of us holds human destiny in our hands. It will be completely determined by how the mind feels about itself.

To take charge of destiny means to play a very convoluted chess game on multiple levels of consciousness and existence.

Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

Eating a vegetarian diet can contribute more to saving ourselves and the planet than any other single effort.

My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.

We are the living graves of murdered beasts.

A healthy man watched what he ate. An intelligent man watched what he watched.

Dignity is like a perfume; those who use it are scarcely conscious of it.

Bring the child to the consciousness of his own dignity and he will feel free.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.