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Quotes About Consciousness

I like to think about society as being a flock of birds: There seems to be a common consciousness in different time periods, and the new common consciousness reacts to the old standards.
~ Penelope Spheeris
Paradise is not somewhere else... it is within you. And it is not in some other time, after death... It is in you right now.
~ Rajneesh
Let this become your key - next time when anger comes, just watch it. Don't say.
~ Rajneesh
When you are in the present without thinking, you are for the first time spiritual.
~ Rajneesh
The richness of a moment comes when it's both full and empty at the same time. The truth is, we live simultaneously in time and timelessness.
~ Ram Dass
It is possible to transcend the usual limitations of the body, ego, space, and linear time.
~ Stanislav Grof
Other people's deconstruction of your motivations doesn't help you do what you do. You can't swallow and think about swallowing at the same time.
~ Stephen Colbert
The psychedelic mind is a higher dimensional mind, it is not fit for three dimensional space time.
~ Terence McKenna
It is possible to be aware of God at all times.
~ Tim Cook
I believe in past lives but I know nothing about mine and I don't want to know. I live in the present, taking one day at a time.
~ Uri Geller
Time is an illusion that makes us all pant.
~ Yann Martel
I did not count the days or the weeks or the months. Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time.
~ Yann Martel
What Time Is It? You Mean Now?
~ Yogi Berra
Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time.
~ Eileen Caddy
Through incarnations, some beings do go down. That is to say, they forget. The soul falls into an eclipse of itself and there is a downward progression for a time.
~ Frederick Lenz
The good news is that you don't have to stop thoughts completely to meditate. It takes a long time to stop thought impeccably. What you need is to detach yourself from thought.
~ Frederick Lenz
As spirits we have always existed in a generalized form, since we are all part of the universe. As individual spirits, we have existed for a timeless time.
~ Frederick Lenz
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
~ Henri Bergson
During deep meditation it is possible to dispel time, to see simultaneously all the past, present, and future, and then everything is good, everything is perfect, everything is Brahman.
~ Hermann Hesse
It's about your heart and about your consciousness. It's not about length of time you pray. Some of the most powerful prayers I've ever heard come from children, who can barely speak.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
When you are truly meditative, there is no time and space for you. Time and space is just a creation of the mind.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
Time is the element that controls the consciousness, the very being of the people.
~ Jamaica Kincaid
... it's hard to be politically conscious and upwardly mobile at the same time.
~ Jane Wagner
Most of us don't spend any time knowing ourselves. We just keep reacting.
~ Jewel