Quotes About Consciousness

Be self aware, rather than a repetitious robot

Don't think. FEEL. It's like a finger pointing at the moon. Do not concentrate on the finger, or you will miss all of the heavenly glory.

I'm moving and not moving at all. I'm like the moon underneath the waves that ever go on rolling and rocking. It is not, "I am doing this," but rather, an inner realization that "this is happening through me," or "it is doing this for me." The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action.

The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action.

Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-conciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about to make.

Satori - in the awakening from a dream. Awakening and self-realization and seeing into one's own being - these are synonymous.

A conditioned mind is never a free mind.

To know, but to be as though not knowing, is the height of wisdom.

The most dangerous person is the one who listens, thinks and observes.

Living exists when life lives through us … life is a living now!

I'm moving and not moving at all. I'm like the moon underneath the waves that ever go on rolling and rocking. It is not, "I am doing this," but rather, an inner realization that "this is happening through me," or "it is doing this for me." The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action.

Zen insists that the whole trouble is just our failure to realize that there is no problem.

Our perception of what is physical us an illusion. There's nothing physical at all, it's all energy.

Mankind's a dead issue now, cousin. There are no more souls. Only states of mind.

In a world so redolent with wonder, how can we allow ourselves to conduct our daily lives with so little insight, such absence of dignity?

If we hope to live not just from moment to moment, but in true consciousness of our existence, then our greatest need and most difficult achievement is to find meaning in our lives.

To this day I cannot understand how we became the conscious perpetrators of it. A strange fatality must have been driving us to it; for fate does not evade consciousness or will but engulfs them in its mechanism, so that we are able to accept, as in hypnotic trance, things that under normal circumstances would fill us with horror.

I am sorry," he would say, addressing himself unexpectedly to the astonished onlooker. "I am sorry, I am concerned with that section of space which you are filling. Couldn't you move a little to one side for a minute?

Thats all we should be, a squishy golem, an extremely articulate automaton, Without one thing- Spirit

True freedom is where an individual's thoughts and actions are in alignment with that which is true, correct, and of honor - no matter the personal price.

Humility and full consciousness are inseparable.

Command the space of your beingness – a space where you are allowed to grow into your true, unique nature.

The outer world is a reflection of our inner selves.

The revolution of consciousness is connected to the food revolution.