Quotes About Consciousness

Having never left the house you are looking for the way home

The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space: a single entity in which air, water, and continents are interconnected. That is our home.

When your consciousness is directed outward, mind and world arise. When it is directed inward, it realises its own Source and returns home into the Unmanifested.

We would like only, for once, to get to where we are already.

We're trapped on this very thin slice of perception ... But even at that slice of reality that we call home, we're not seeing most of what's going on.

I still think we are smart enough to not destroy planet Earth, our only home.

Every morning I wake up in a home where Mike Tyson previously laid in the bed and he earned over $500 million his career. It makes me conscious.

If you are energy-efficient and water-wise at home, then take all your good habits abroad with you.

Living consciously involves being genuine; it involves listening and responding to others honestly and openly; it involves being in the moment.

Meditation is simply seeing reality and acknowledging it with bare honesty.

At first I was iridescent, then I became transparent, finally I was absent

We can be redeemed only to the extent to which we see ourselves.

Integrity is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake your consciousness, just as honesty is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake existence.

There's no mystery to integrity. There's no mystery to oneness. When there is a core-splitting honesty, right there, awareness knows.

All the honors of men in a state of sleep are as nothing.

If we hope to live not just from moment to moment, but in true consciousness of our existence, then our greatest need and most difficult achievement is to find meaning in our lives.

Hope of consciousness is strength. Hope of feelings is slavery. Hope of body is disease.

[Hope is] the dream of a waking man.

We live on the leash of our senses.

Let's shine the light of consciousness on places where we can hope to find what we are seeking.

It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. All there is ever, is the now.

That indescribable expression peculiar to people who hope they have not been asleep, but know they have.

I think the best thing I can hope to achieve is to educate, or make aware, as many people as possible on how the little things they do every day really do affect our environment.

The animal lacks both anxiety and hope because its consciousness is restricted to what is clearly evident and thus to the present moment: the animal is the present incarnate.