Quotes About Consciousness

Life is not what we live; it is what we imagine we are living.

Anthroposophy does not want to impart knowledge. It seeks to awaken life.

Wake up, Caitlin, Mr. Lensing had said. But what he didn't under­stand was that this dreamland was preferable, walking through this life half-sleeping, everything at arm's length or farther away.

In the absence of wake-up calls, many of us never really confront the critical issues of life.

If we're all living in ourselves and mistaking it for life, then we're devaluing and desensitizing life.

Now is all you ever have. There never is anything else. So, you might as well make the now your friend. Otherwise, you are out of alignment with life itself.

Try to realize it's all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you're only very small and life flows on within you and without you.

When we are not sure, we are alive.

Happiness happens when your consciousness is not dominated by addictions and demands - and you experience life as a parade of preferences.

Life is not so much defined by the external situation as it is by the internal one.

Life is a great and wondrous mystery, and the only thing we know that we have for sure is what is right here right now. Don't miss it.

You have an appointment with life, an appointment that is in the here and now.

Think with the whole body.

Dhikr is the reason for the life of the heart and leaving it is the reason for its death.

All the masters tell us that the reality of life - which our noisy walking consciousness prevents us from hearing - speaks to us chiefly in silence.

Yoga is not a new path to follow but a way to become conscious of the original impetus of life. Yoga is the movement and evolution of Life itself.

I may not believe in life after death, but what a gift it is to be alive now.

Feeling good and feeling bad are not necessarily opposites. Both at least involve feelings. Any feeling is a reminder of life. The worst 'feeling' evidently is non-feeling.

Life begins with an inhale and ends with an exhale. ln between that inhale and that exhale is our life.

Your conscious life is an elaborate after-the-fact rationalization of things you really do for other reasons.

Life itself is not the reality. We are the ones who put life into stones and pebbles.

I think i'm just breathing, that's all. And there's a difference between breathing and being alive.

This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.

Therefore our choices need to be made carefully. Every single thing that one of us thinks says or does, impacts all the rest of humanity on one level or another.