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Quotes About Consciousness

The object of knowledge is what exists and its function to know about reality.
~ Plato
When the doors of perception are cleansed, men will see things as they truly are, infinite.
~ William Blake
To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude.
~ Confucius
Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
~ Henri Bergson
What good can the scriptures do to a man who has no sense of his own? Of what use is as mirror to a blind man?
~ Chanakya
To understand yourself is the key to wisdom.
~ Confucius
We all have spiritual DNA; wisdom and truth are part of our genetic structure even if we don't always access it.
~ Surya Das
To meet everything and everyone through stillness instead of mental noise is the greatest gift you can offer the universe.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Once you understand that the false needs time and what needs time is false, you are nearer the Reality, which is timeless, ever in the NOW.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Nothing can make you happier than you are. All search for happiness is misery and leads to more misery. The only happiness worth the name is the natural happiness of conscious being.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
A free man thinks of nothing less than of death; and his wisdom is a meditation not on death but on life.
~ Baruch Spinoza
If we want to awaken, we don't need to eradicate the ego, we simply need to be conscious of the deeper self as well.
~ Timothy Freke
The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it--just don't get lost in it.
~ Ram Dass
The ego is the separate self through which the universal self can experience the adventure of living.
~ Timothy Freke
Be careful what you swallow. Chew!
~ Gwendolyn Brooks
The wisdom of samadhi is quite different. Higher level wisdom cannot be written down. It cannot be spoken. True wisdom is the knowledge of the universe that is beyond physical expression.
~ Frederick Lenz
Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his hear.
~ Rumi
When we're awake in our bodies and sense, the world comes alive. Wisdom, creativity, and love are discovered as we relax and awaken through our bodies.
~ Tara Brach
Change your attitude to the things that bother you and you will be aware of them.
~ Marcus Aurelius
There is no solution to any world problem, to any national problem, to any city problem or to any local problem, unless and until people get their Realization.
~ Nirmala Srivastava
The old grooves must be erased in your brain, without forming new ones. You must realize yourself as the immovable, behind and beyond the movable, the silent witness of all that happens.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Any joy, creativity or wisdom our next moment brings will ensue from the way we live our present one.
~ Susan L. Taylor
The world is as you are.
~ David Lynch
The history of the world is none other than the progress of the , consciousness of freedom.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel