Quotes About Consciousness

You are aware of only one unrest; Oh, never learn to know the other! Two souls, alas, are dwelling in my breast, And one is striving to forsake its brother.

Show me the man who has the courage to hide his ill-humour, who bears the whole burden himself, without disturbing the peace of those around him. No: ill-humour arises from an inward consciousness of our own want of merit, from a discontent which ever accompanies that envy which foolish vanity engenders. We see people happy, whom we have not made so, and cannot endure the sight.

All our most honest toil succeeds only in unconscious moments. For how would the rose blossom if it were aware of the splendor of the sun!

Yes, one is on the right track when one does not know what one is thinking when one is thinking; everything is handed to one, as it were.

No: ill-humour arises from an inward consciousness of our own want of merit, from a discontent which ever accompanies that envy which foolish vanity engenders.

If one's conscious life is too rigid, too regimented, then the surface may crack at times, and we are unprepared for the strange emotions or sensations we experience.

Healthy choices thread through every aspect of life.

I think it's important to live life with a knowledge of its mystery, and of your own mystery.

To tackle climate change you don't have to reduce your quality of life, but you do have to change the way you live

Life is an endlessly creative experience, and we are shaping ourselves at every moment by every decision we make.

My first psychedelic experience with Aldous still directs my life today.

The spiritual path - is simply the journey of living our lives. Everyone is on a spiritual path; most people just don't know it.

What is significant in one's own existence one is hardly aware, and it certainly should not bother the other fellow. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life?

Action is movement with intelligence. The world is filled with movement. What the world needs is more conscious movement, more action.

Try looking at life as a beautifully well-organized dynamic.

When we dead awaken ... we see that we have never lived.

When you are no more identified with your physicality, you become available to Grace.

Most of the time you are thinking about life, not living life.

Your intuition is not the same thing as your mind. In fact, intuition is really the opposite of your mind - and you need to use BOTH in living your day-to-day life.

This is the miracle of life: that each person who heeds him or herself knows what no scientist can ever know: who he or she is.

Sometimes people use thought to not participate in life.

The surface of things is not where attention should rest.

Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?

What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.