Quotes About Consciousness

When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity.

The substance, the essence, the Spirit is freedom.

Are you still thinking, looking, living, as from an imaginary phenomenal centre? As long as you do that you can never recognise your freedom.

Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.

Freedom begins between the ears.

Animals see the unobstructed world with their whole eyes. But our eyes, turned back upon themselves, encircle and seek to snare the world, setting traps for freedom.

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

Presence is the key to freedom, so you can only be free now.

You are already free. You only have to know and realize this truth.

Freedom does not mean license.

Today, you can decide to walk in freedom. You can choose to walk differently. You can walk as a free person, enjoying every step.

Indeterminism does not confer freedom on us: I would feel that my freedom was impaired if I thought that a quantum mechanical trigger in my brain might cause me to leap into the garden and eat a slug

Once there is a distance between you and your thought process, a new freedom is born. With this freedom, a new perception arises.

What we need is a new consciousness concerning the idea of human liberty.

True freedom is living as if you had completely chosen whatever you feel or experience in this moment. This inner alignment with the Now is the end of suffering.

I think that freedom is sometimes a state of mind. Sometimes, mind you, but not always.

Freedom is the awareness of alternatives and of the ability to choose. It is contingent upon consciousness, and so may be gained or lost, extended or diminished.

What will carry us into living freedom is not the holding of attention so much as the holding of appreciation.

To meditate with full effort, produces infinity, freedom.

A man unconsciously imagines that where he is strong, where he feels most thoroughly alive, the element of his freedom must lie.

People can be in general pretty well trusted, of course--with the clock of their freedom ticking as loud as it seems to do here--to keep an eye on the fleeting hour.

Freedom is entirely different from revolt. There is no such thing as doing right or wrong when there is freedom. You are free and from that centre you act.

A man said to the universe: 'Sir, I exist!' 'However,' replied the universe. 'The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation.