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Quotes About Consciousness

Most people spend their entire life imprisoned within the confines of their own thoughts. They never go beyond a narrow, mind-made, personalized sense of self that is conditioned by the past.
~ Eckhart Tolle
As you go about your life, don't give 100 percent of your attention to the external world and your mind. Keep some within.
~ Eckhart Tolle
It wasn't through the mind, through thinking, that the miracle that is life on earth or your body were created and are being sustained.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Life is your deepest inner Being. It is already whole, complete, perfect.
~ Eckhart Tolle
The future never comes. Life is always now.
~ Eckhart Tolle
The present moment is all you ever have. There is never a time when your life is not 'this moment.' Is this not a fact?
~ Eckhart Tolle
The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges on the unusual and marvelous.
~ Edward Thorndike
Sleep - death without dying - living, but not life.
~ Edwin Arnold
Let's absurdify life, from east to west. Let us play hide-and-seek with our consciousness of living.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Coming to grips with the reality that our planet is not the only one harboring intelligent life the universe.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
Don't let your life just go in one eye and out the other.
~ Frederick Buechner
One aspect of power is to bring our past-life awareness into this lifetime. The second aspect of power is to go into new fields of awareness that we have never experienced.
~ Frederick Lenz
The cool thing about the universe is that it can format itself into tiny little manifestations that are not entirely aware of all aspects of life.
~ Frederick Lenz
The study of enlightenment is really a reorganization of our perceptual body or our perceptual field. We learn to see life more directly and more clearly.
~ Frederick Lenz
If you stay in the attention you are in, then you can predict everything that will happen to you for the rest of your life.
~ Frederick Lenz
Death is utterly acceptable to consciousness and life.
~ Adi Da
I've never meditated for a moment in my life. I don't know how it works. But one of the things you have to do to put yourself in the meditating mode is stop narrating yourself to yourself.
~ Aleksandar Hemon
After death we live for some time in the astral world in the astral body used during our life on earth, and the more we learn to control and use it wisely now the better for us after death.
~ Annie Besant
We teach our children one thing only, as we were taught: to wake up. We teach our children to look alive there, to join by words and activities the life of human culture on the planet
~ Annie Dillard
Most people don't live aware lives. They live mechanical lives, mechanical thoughts - generally somebody else's - mechanical emotions, mechanical actions, mechanical reactions.
~ Anthony de Mello
I think. I am. I will.
~ Ayn Rand
If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss real life
~ Byron Katie
O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts!
~ John Keats
For people who are really alive to have life awakened is more important than to get a sandwich.
~ Joseph Campbell