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Quotes About Consciousness

The only thing you're taking out of here is your spirit and your soul, so we need to be conscious to try and develop that part of ourselves, because we're all spiritual creatures.
~ Smokey Robinson
The essence of spiritual life is simply to use our free will properly.
~ Radhanath Swami
Socrates had no system to teach. Throughout, his philosophy was a spiritual exercise, an invitation to a new way of life, active reflection, and living consciousness.
~ Pierre Hadot
Spirituality is the science of the Soul.
~ Swami Vivekananda
True creativity flows only from stillness. When stillness becomes conscious, the spiritual dimension enters your life and you begin to be guided by an intelligence far greater than the human mind.
~ Eckhart Tolle
A man after death, is not a natural but a spiritual man; nevertheless he still appears in all respects like himself.
~ Emanuel Swedenborg
Those who are Awake live in a state of constant amazement.
~ Jack Kornfield
The first step toward spiritual growth is to become aware of your emotions.
~ Gary Zukav
Only a spiritual being has awareness.
~ Chick Corea
Soul development should take precedence over all things.
~ Edgar Cayce
There's much more in any given moment than we usually perceive, and that we ourselves are much more than we usually perceive. When you know that, part of you can stand outside the drama of your life.
~ Ram Dass
The brain does not create consciousness, but conciousness created the brain, the most complex physical form on earth, for its expression.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Of course you don't die. Nobody dies. Death doesn't exist. You only reach a new level of vision, a new realm of consciousness, a new unknown world.
~ Henry Miller
Tantra is for a person who has reached a point in their spiritual evolution where everything looks the same.
~ Frederick Lenz
Meditation means to know life beyond the sphere of the physical; to know and experience life not just at the surface but at the source.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
Do not pursue what should be, but understand what is.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Understand this if nothing else: spiritual freedom and oneness with the Tao are not randomly bestowed gifts, but the rewards of conscious self-transformation and self-evolution.
~ Laozi
Mental alertness is not awareness. Mental alertness only enhances your survival instincts. It does not take you towards liberation.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
In a special sense... the three great natural states of waking, dreaming, and deep sleep contain an entire spectrum of spiritual enlightenment.
~ Ken Wilber
Past and future are in the mind only - I am now.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
When we become connected to the supreme spirit then we automatically becomes situated in our spiritual identity.
~ Bhakti Charu Swami
Spiritual growth requires the development of inner knowing and inner authority. It requires the heart, not the intellect.
~ Gary Zukav
Many of us who have experienced psychedelics feel very much that they are sacred tools. They open spiritual awareness.
~ Stanislav Grof
I am not this body. I am in this body, and this is part of my incarnation and I honor it but that isn't who I am.
~ Ram Dass