Quotes About Consciousness

Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one's own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.

When I look at a painting it isn't only the painting that I see but the thing that I am. If there is more in the painting than I am, then I won't see it.

Take heed lest passion sway Thy judgment to do aught, which else free will Would not admit.

A man cannot dress, without his ideas get clothed at the same time.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

Granting that we are always in the presence of God, yet it seems to me that those who pray are in His presence in a very different sense; for they, as it were, see that He is looking upon them, while others may go for days on end without even once recollecting that God sees them.

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they might have been.

Human kind cannot bear very much reality.

There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.

Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.

All our interior world is reality - and that perhaps more so than our apparent world.

Most of our platitudes notwithstanding, self-deception remains the most difficult deception. The tricks that worked on others count for nothing in that very well-lit back alley where one keeps assignations with oneself: no winning smiles will do here, no prettily drawn list of good intentions.

What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing-to live in accord with his own nature.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

Spirituality is ... the awareness that survival is the savage fight between you and yourself.

I am the only real truth I know.

It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are-not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within-that you can begin to take control.

We should know what our convictions are, and stand for them. Upon one's own philosophy, conscious or unconscious, depends one's ultimate interpretation of facts. Therefore it is wise to be as clear as possible about one's subjective principles. As the man is, so will be his ultimate truth.

The foundations which we would dig about and find are within us, like the Kingdom of Heaven, rather than without.

There is no reality except the one contained within us.

I am my own heaven and hell!

They understand but little who understand only what can be explained.

Excite the soul, and the weather and the town and your condition in the world all disappear; the world itself loses its solidity, nothing remains but the soul and the Divine Presence in which it lives.

The soul ... is audible, not visible.