Quotes About Consciousness

Even in the worm that crawls in the earth there glows a divine spark. When you slaughter a creature, you slaughter God.

We live as we dream - alone.

Only the soul knows what love is.

When feeling is divested of the feeler and the felt, it shines as love; when seeing is divested of the seer and the seen, it shines as beauty.

There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.

If you are in the habit of creating suffering for yourself, then you are probably creating suffering for others too

As we grow in our consciousness.. there will be more compassion and more love. And then... the barriers between people.. between religions.. and between nations will begin to fall.

Where there is love, do what you will, it will be right action. It will never bring conflict to one's life. In the flame of love, all fear is consumed.

You cannot act in love and act in fear at the same time. You must choose between them.

When you are in the present moment, you break the continuity of your story, of past and future. Then true intelligence arises, and also love.

Life's too short to sit through songs you don't love.

Most people are ego-sensitive, not life-sensitive.

The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don't see.

We are just a little tiny flicker of a much larger flame that is Life itself, Consciousness itself, Being itself, Love itself, God's very self.

History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

Admittedly, the nature of language is one of the most mysterious questions that exists for man to ponder on.

Philosophy, in its very diachrony, is the consciousness of the breakup of consciousness.

there is in fact no evidence that quantum mechanics is actually needed at all to account for consciousness—unlike other biological phenomena that we have considered in this book such as enzyme action or photosynthesis.

Better to not know which moment may be your last. Every morsel of your entire being alive to the infinite mystery of it all.

His suffering was no more real than he was.

Time passes. I drift in and out. As if I cease to be, until I remember to exist again.

Before you go to bed tonight ask yourself one thing, "How much junk food did I eat and drink today?"...then say your prayers. -Johnny The Walker

As I sat there, I found myself thinking of things I hadn't thought of for years, old emotions watching over me, new thoughts and ideas being pulled from me as if my perception itself were being stretched out of shape.

I know the subtlest movements of the city because I no longer sleep.