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Quotes About Consciousness

After what I have stated, anyone can tell that Knowledge rests on the Void in order to be known, precisely because the Knowledges Self is the Being, the opposite of the Void, but, and I recommend attention, the opposite of the Void does not mean that is is that something, that in fact has a subsistence meaning, no! Not in the least.
~ Sorin Cerin
Love is a state of mind which has nothing to do with the mind.
~ Bob Phillips
Then we will become aware that just by returning to us, to that piece of ourselves, we will start to see Knowledge, but without using the eyes, to feel the Truth, but without using the senses, to grasp the Known because we found out the Unknown precisely because it is unknown and difficult to find, then we will become ourselves and we will look towards the stars in our inner sky by living what should have been the death of life or the life of the death within us.
~ Sorin Cerin
Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.
~ Unknown
The love of property and consciousness of right and wrong have conflicting places in our organization, which often makes a man's course seem crooked, his conduct a riddle
~ Abraham Lincoln
A Native American grandfather talking to his young grandson tells the boy he has two wolves inside of him struggling with each other. The first is the wolf of peace, love and kindness. The other wolf is fear, greed and hatred. Which wolf will win, grandfather? asks the young boy. Whichever one I feed, is the reply.
~ Unknown
It's crazy, I'm thinking, just knowing that the world is round, And here I'm dancing on the ground Am I right-side-up or upside-down, And is this real or am I dreaming?
~ Dave Matthews Band
Hell is a place, a time, a consciousness, in which there is no love.
~ Richard Bach
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
~ Marcus Aurelius
The word 'sin' is derived from the Indo-European root 'es-,' meaning 'to be.' When I discovered this etymology, I intuitively understood that for a [person] trapped in patriarchy, which is the religion of the entire planet, 'to be' in the fullest sense is 'to sin'.
~ Mary Daly
Every woman who has come to consciousness can recall an almost endless series of oppressive, violating, insulting, assaulting acts against her Self. Every woman is battered by such assaults - is on a psychic level, a battered woman.
~ Mary Daly
Things I can feel. Hard. Soft. Rough. Smooth. But the inside kind of feel, it is all the same, like foggy mush. Is that the part of me that is still asleep? (9)
~ Mary E. Pearson
Killing is different from thinking about killing.
~ Mary E. Pearson
We all have a dark place in us. It's what we do with it and the choices we make.
~ Mary E. Pearson
where did those words go, words that where once in my head?
~ Mary E. Pearson
Meditation leads you to your spiritual information, and takes you on a journey of getting to know yourself and your creations.
~ Unknown
It's not when you press the shutter, but why you press the shutter.
~ Mary Ellen Mark
What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.
~ Mary GrandPre
One of the basic tenets of all metaphysical systems of thought is that we create our own reality in accord with our beliefs.
~ Unknown
Before you echo 'Amen' in your home or place of worship, think and remember...a child is listening.
~ Mary Griffith
Christopher admitted his power but it was precisely the kind of power that he was most incapable of admiring. It was an irony of which he was conscious that he continued to enjoy its benefactions.
~ Unknown
I knew, I knew, but I tried to close the door on my knowing.
~ Unknown
the neurotic torture of being seductive regularly—by the night: the more that perchance the struggle always is unconscious.
~ Mary MacLane
They told the truth, but they buried it so deep in the footnotes of scientific reports and the jargon of obscure journals that almost none of it could emerge to penetrate public consciousness.
~ Unknown