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Quotes About Consciousness

The truth never becomes clear as long as we assume that each one of us, individually, is the center of the universe.
~ Thomas Merton
For in truth it is life that gives unto life-while you, who deem yourself a giver, are but a witness.
~ Khalil Gibran
And even one life that bears witness to the truth of the prosperity law will quicken the consciousness of the whole community.
~ Eric Butterworth
The truth of a theory is in your mind, not in your eyes.
~ Albert Einstein
And, in order to possess the Truth, the plays of the lower nature must be stopped.
~ Sri Aurobindo
The way we see the world is not actually the world in itself. What we see is our idea of it. The truth is, we have no notion of what the world is other than through the veils of our perception.
~ Emma Restall Orr
In the space of no-mind, truth descends like light
~ Rajneesh
It's exhausting, the energy it takes to unknow a truth.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Doomed
Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification.
~ Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
John Lennon, Beatles Lyrics
~ Nothing is real.
What further helps to reveal reality is when our personal thinking ceases to take reality for granted.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
We have the possibility of being far removed from what we are, of beginning to taste it and feel it. That is direct knowledge. That is truth. Anything else is mere words.
~ Frederick Lenz
The truth is in the present moment.
~ Dani Shapiro
The truth is that the past exists no more than the future, even though it feels as though it does.
~ Terry Eagleton
There is but one indefectibly certain truth , and that is the truth that pyrrhonistic scepticism itself leaves standing, the truth that the present phenomenon of consciousness exists.
~ William James
It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
The elusive truth is that there is nothing stress-producing in the physical world. Things simply are. Molecules move. Light and sound appear.
~ Andrew Bernstein
What would it be like to communicate from a part of your own self that is absolutely free from self-consciousness, that is fearless, uncorrupted, and passionately interested in the truth?.
~ Andrew Cohen
The truth about your own life is not always easy to accept, and sometimes hasn't even occurred to you.
~ Anna Quindlen
There is no fundamental truth and there's nothing to be connected to: I just believe that [LSD] makes you feel better.
~ Ayelet Waldman
Be conscious of God and speak always the truth.
~ Barack Obama
That's absolutely the truth, and that is exactly what the Pleiadians say, that we are going through what we would have done after we left the planet and remembered.
~ Christine McCormick Day
I think the only thing that we even have a small tangent of reality or truth about is right now - the moment that is happening right this second. Everything else is up for grabs.
~ Dan Mangan
I'd always thought telling the truth to other people was hard, but maybe that was a snap compared to telling the truth to yourself. Sometimes we just refused to know what we knew.
~ Deb Caletti