Quotes About Consciousness

It isn't a bad thing to hear voices... but you mustn't for a minute imagine that all is wise that comes to you out of the night world.

Yeah, there's stuff that really good fiction can do that other forms of art can't do as well. And the big thing, the big thing seems to be, sort of leapin' over that wall of self, and portraying inner experience. And setting up, I think, a kind of intimate conversation between two consciences.

I learned that just beneath the surface there's another world, and still different worlds as you dig deeper. I knew it as a kid, but I couldn't find the proof. It was just a kind of feeling. There is goodness in blue skies and flowers, but another force--a wild pain and decay--also accompanies everything.

Don't fight the darkness. Don't even worry about the darkness. Turn on the light and the darkness goes. Turn up that light of pure consciousness: Negativity goes.

Rather, we stand before the infinite holiness of God, all presumption annihilated in his presence. We are deeply conscious that we do not know him enough to praise him adequately, appreciate him enough to love him as we should, or reverence him enough to serve him as we ought.

What else should our lives be but a continual series of beginnings, of painful settings out into the unknown, pushing off from the edges of consciousness into the mystery of what we have not yet become.

Or does not knowing make him free?

Black Consciousness therefore takes cognizance of the deliberateness of God's plan in creating Black people black.

Forgetfulness of self is remembrance of God.

The first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God.

God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Let the God within you express itself through you in the world without.

Atheism is not the denial of the existence of God, but having doubts as to whether God is conscious.

As Aurobindo and Teilhard de Chardin knew, the future of humankind is God-consciousness.

God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.

Thank God I'm not too cool for a seatbelt.

Were you indeed not blinded by the Curse Of Self-exile, that still grows worse and worse, Yourselves would know that, though you see him not, He is with you this Moment, on this Spot.

A God is thinkable, therefore a God is also actually present

The more conscious of God's presence the more I feel like being myself, the less conscious of His presence, the more I feel I need to prove myself.

You are an incredible child of God having a dream that you are a human being on a tiny planet in the middle of nowhere.

We are called by God to do theology, that is, to live our lives with a moment-by-moment consciousness of God.

When we turn the mind inwards, God manifests as the inner consciousness.

Your best friend and worst enemy are both in this room right now. It's not your neighbor right or left - and it's not God or the devil - it's you.

I believe that God left certain drugs growing naturally upon our planet to help speed up and facilitate our evolution.