Quotes About Consciousness

Silence is the space where man wakes up.

Man is the only living being who has a developed self-awareness and death-awareness.

Intellect is the soul of man, the only immortal part of him.

The moral sense, or conscience, is as much part of a man as his leg or arm. It is given to all in a stronger or weaker degree.. It may be strengthened by exercise.

A soul is a troublesome possession, and when man developed it he lost the Garden of Eden.

A more conscious life is one in which a man is conscious not only of what he sees, but of the prejudices with which he sees it.

Sin is not taken out of man, as Eve was out of Adam, by putting him to sleep.

The mind of man is a thousand times more beautiful than the earth on which he dwells.

I read somewhere that some people believe that the entire universe is a matrix of living thought. And I said, "Man, if that's not a definition of God, I don't know what is.

Conscious man, to be sure, has at all times been keenly aware that life is an adventure, that life must, forever, be wrested from death.

I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.

Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!

The day, man will find that he never really dies; that his Soul persists beyond death; he will have no more fear of death.

My mind is incapable of conceiving such a thing as a soul. I may be in error, and man may have a soul; but I simply do not believe it.

Man must get away from verbal forms to attain the consciousness, that which is there to be perceived at hand.

To be awake is to be completely alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.

To the man whose senses are alive and alert there is not even the need to stir from one's threshold.

The living soul of man, once conscious of its power, cannot be quelled.

There is no right to deny freedom to any object with a mind advanced enough to grasp the concept and desire the state. -(from "The Bicentennial Man) story)

A man who is really earnest must begin with himself, he must be passively aware of all his thoughts, feelings and actions.

Consciousness is the perception of what passes in man's own mind.

What the soul knows is often unknown to the man who has a soul. We are infinitely more than we think.

The Path is not far from man. When men try to pursue a course, which is far from the common indications of consciousness, this course cannot be considered The Path.

What men fear is not that death is annihilation but that it is not.