Quotes About Consciousness

Humanity has pondered over the meaning of God since its beginning. It is one of those cognitive features that came along with the advent of modern Human Consciousness.

It is not about whether you have free will, rather it is about whether you have enough experience to make the best possible wilful decision in the current moment of life.

In any event, we must remember that it's not the blinded wrongdoers who are primarily responsible for the triumph of evil in the world, but the spiritually sighted servants of the good.

What I can and cannot imagine is a psychological fact about me. It is not a deep metaphysical fact about the nature of the universe.

The means and the results, the good and the bad, are within all of us who are aware and care.

Angelo, " he said, and felt the bed rock as Angelo shuddered, caught halfway between REM atonia - the inhibition of movement caused by the shutdown of monoamines in the brain - and waking.

... things are the way they are in our universe because if they Weren't, we would not be here to notice.

There is no other world. Nor even this one. What, then, is there? The inner smile provoked in us by the patent nonexistence of both.

A madman and an arahant both smile, but the arahant knows why while the madman doesn't.

Just breathing and smiling can make us very happy, because when we breathe consciously we recover ourselves completely and encounter life in the present moment.

Meditation is silence. Silence is God In His Infinity's Smile.

No ideals. No illusions. Just reality - but more perfect than you've ever imagined. That's what being mindful and living in the present means.

Learn to be a responder, not a reactor.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

Education is the basic tool for the development of consciousness and the reconstitution of society.

The totality of beliefs and sentiments common to the average members of a society forms a determinate system with a life of its own. It can be termed the collective or creative consciousness.

Any kind of consciousness that is not related to the production or consumption of material goods is stigmatized in our society today.

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

Only an organized and conscious people can bring about a different kind of society.

If we want to move towards a low-polluting, sustainable society, we need to get consumers to think about their purchases.

There is a great need for the introduction of new values in our society, where bigger is not necessarily better, where slower can be faster, and where less can be more.

The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.

One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic.

She didn't read books so she didn't know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.