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Quotes About Consciousness

Until we can understand the assumptions in which we are drenched we cannot know ourselves.
~ Adrienne Rich
When a man begins to understand himself he begins to live.
~ Norvin G. McGranahan
Ignorance annihilates self.
~ Jason Barnett
What is word knowledge but a shadow of wordless knowledge?
~ Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
A mind is a simulation that simulates itself.
~ Erol Ozan
Perhaps they didn't know they were at sea. Was there a certain percentage of people at sea who lacked the knowledge that they were at sea?
~ Ben Marcus, Leaving the Sea
...on a subconscious level we're aware that time isn't enduring, that it is not a required condition of our existence, that there comes a point when we will have no need of it.
~ Dean Koontz, Saint Odd
Careful preparation is necessary before people can perceive something which is there all the time.
~ Idries Shah
I refuse to try to explain everything because if you know too much about yourself you become impotent. Better not to know what it is that makes you tick.
~ Paul Wunderlich
No person among us desires any other reward for performing a brave and worthy action, but the consciousness of having served his nation.
~ Joseph Brant
The ability to choose cannot be taken away or even given away-it can only be forgotten.
~ Greg McKeown
Leaders live by choice, not by accident.
~ Mark Gorman
Begin to live each day as if it was your last.
~ Robin Sharma
We are far more effective on the inside looking out than the outside looking in.
~ Helen Lynch
One learns the art of dying by learning the art of living: how to become master of the present moment.
~ S. N. Goenka
The consciousness of lucid dreaming is a cultural evolution. It's something that we are talking about and learning about, not biological evolution.
~ Stephen LaBerge
Stop learning. Start knowing
~ Rumi
To change your reality you have to change your inner thoughts.
~ David Bohm
Learn the true topography; the monstrous and wonderful archetypes are not inside you, not inside your consciousness; you are inside them, trapped and howling to get out
~ R. A. Lafferty
Being empowered with the knowledge that you are the creator of your own reality, is the best way to accelerate healing and learning.
~ David Wolfe
Besides learning to see, there is another art to be learned - not to see what is not.
~ Maria Mitchell
To become acquainted with oneself is a terrible shock.
~ Carl Jung
As you think, so shall you become.
~ Bruce Lee
The more we learn about the world, and the deeper our learning, the more conscious, specific, and articulate will be our knowledge of what we do not know, our knowledge of our ignorance
~ Karl Popper