Quotes About Consciousness

Of all knowledge the wise and good seek most to know themselves.

To know others is to have knowledge. To know yourself is to be enlightened.

Part of the pleasure of being alive is the knowledge that you're not dead yet.

Properly speaking, should any individual ever have exact, clear knowledge of his own core consciousness?" "I wouldn't know," I said. "Nor would we," said the scientists.

Through Transcendental Meditation, the human brain can experience that level of intelligence which is an ocean of all knowledge, energy, intelligence, and bliss.

The soul - your soul - knows all there is to know all the time. There's nothing hidden to it, nothing unknown. Yet knowing is not enough. The soul seeks to experience.

I think it's increasingly hard to have deep self-knowledge without entering the darkness in some way.

Enlightenment is the culmination of self-knowledge, pure unadulterated knowledge. Not knowledge you can get from reading a book, it comes from perfecting your awareness, your mind.

The more I learn about stuff the more conscious I become of grave gaps in my knowledge.

All I know is reception; I am and I have: but I do not get, and when I fancied I had gotten anything, I found I did not.

...knowledge of material reality is the knowledge of death.

This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.

We think by feeling. What is there to know?

We shall say that we have acquaintance with anything of which we are directly aware, without the intermediary of any process of inference of any knowledge of truths.

Sometimes it takes more courage not to let yourself see. Sometimes knowledge is damaging - not enlightenment but enleadenment.

What does it mean to be born? After we die, will it be the same thing as it was before we were born? Or a different kind of nothingness? Because there might be knowledge then. Memory.

I analyze religious knowledge and consciousness.

Knowledge is structured in consciousness

During the act of knowledge itself, the objective and subjective are so instantly united, that we cannot determine to which of the two the priority belongs.

We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge--and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves--how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves?

You have to learn to recognize your own depths.

She said we all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable.

If you live with the limited beliefs of your mind, you cannot see life, beyond the physical existence, while in reality, the life happens at a much deeper level.

A man who's discontents were barely known to himself, awakening in middle age to the horror of self-reflection.