Quotes About Consciousness

In the scenes of moral life the soul is at once actor and spectator.

Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is.

The principal fact of life is the free mind.

Philosophers, especially metaphysicians, explore features of reality and of our mental life that are different from those explored by scientists.

Art pierces opaque subjectivity, the not seeing of conventional life, and discloses reality.

Life is a reflection of what you think. If your thoughts are negative, the world you see will be the same.

If you can see it, hear it, feel it, taste it, touch it, or smell it, you can be present with it. It is of the present moment, and so it brings to you the opportunity to be present with it.

A nonviolent life is an act of self-examination and self-purification, whether by an individual, group or nation.

We feel in one world, we think and name in another. Between the two we can set up a system of references, but we cannot fill in the gap.

A person's life is what their thoughts make it.

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

Dream masters create a masterpiece of life; they control the dream by making choices.

Whatever the dictates of fashion, it seems that those who take the trouble to gain mastery over what happens in consciousness do lead a happier life.

You cannot experience what you don't know. And you don't know you are in "heaven" right now because you have not experienced it.

I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill, and not to support any act of killing in the world, in my thinking, and in my way of life

Don't go in and out of meditative spaces - stay there with that awareness, always. Everything in life is meditative.

The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.

That I exist is a perpetual surprise which is life.

Real life was something happening in her peripheral vision.

Remember, meditation will bring you more and more intelligence, infinite intelligence, a radiant intelligence. Meditation will make you more alive and sensitive; your life will become richer

Meditation has only one meaning, and that is going beyond the mind and becoming a witness. In your witnessing is the miracle - the whole mystery of life

Be - don't try to become.

What we're seeing "out there" is the projection of where we're at--the projection of the clingings of our minds.

Study the hurtful patterns of your life. Then don't repeat them.