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Quotes About Consciousness

The enduring life is the one that begins once we awaken from this world. And it is in that awakening that we realize... It was only a dream
~ Yasmin Mogahed
Choose your intention carefully and then practice holding your consciousness to it, so it becomes the guiding light in your life.
~ Roger Delano Hinkins
The soul lives there in the silent breath.
~ Rumi
Let sleep itself be an exercise in piety, for such as our life and conduct have been, so also of necessity will be our dreams.
~ Saint Basil
The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
~ Sallust
Integrity in the Moment of Choice: Quality of life depends on what happens in the space between stimulus and response.
~ Stephen Covey
We term sleep a death, and yet it is waking that kills us, and destroys those spirits that are the house of life.
~ Thomas Browne
Govern thy Life and Thoughts, as if the whole World were to see the one, and read the other.
~ Thomas Fuller
What surprises you in life? The marvel of consciousness -- that sudden window swinging open on a sunlit landscape amidts the night of non-being.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
Live today. Let go of your attachment to your past as an excuse for your life conditions today. You are the product of the choices you are making right now.
~ Wayne Dyer
Pay attention to the intricate patterns of your existence that you take for granted.
~ Doug Dillon
The eternal present is the space within which your whole life unfolds, the one factor that remains constant. Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be.
~ Eckhart Tolle
You can move through life seeing nothing as a miracle, or seeing everything as a miracle.
~ Albert Einstein
What one reads, or rather all that comes to us, is surely only of interest and value in proportion as we find ourselves therein, -- form given to what was vague, what slumbered stirred to life.
~ Alice James
Kill the cow of your ego as quickly as you can, so that your inner spirit can come to life and attain true awareness.
~ Rumi
All living beings are spiritual beings because all of life breathes. Breath is an indication that spirit is present.
~ Sharon Gannon
The awakening of the soul to its bondage and its effort to stand up and assert itself - this is called life.
~ Swami Vivekananda
We are not a body with a soul, but a soul with a body. When the body dies the soul returns to the source.
~ Wayne Dyer
As long as one accepts "time" tacitly as such he is dreaming a dream, not living a life.
~ Wei Wu Wei
It is no more possible to live in the future than it is to live in the past. If life is not now, it is never.
~ Wendell Berry
Never forget: We are alive within mysteries.
~ Wendell Berry
Listen - life is really going on, right now, around us. Do you see it? Sometimes I lose it but if I sit still and listen, it comes back, and then I think, How funny, this is what being alive is.
~ Robin Morgan
The brain is just the physical machine that runs the program called the mind. The brain is the hardware, the mind is the software.
~ Dylan Evans