Quotes About Consciousness

Do I believe in God? I don't know what that really means. I don't know what my personal connections with G-o-d are. But spirituality is soulfulness.

Spirituality is not about looking up or down - it's about looking inward.

I can't explain it, but spiritually it makes sense - though I don't understand how it does make sense.

I think quite spiritually of myself. I feel like I'm here to support the human evolution.

It should not be expected that what is spiritual can be brought before the eyes, before the senses. It must be experienced inwardly and spiritually.

Each time you choose not to act on a frightened part of your personality, you create authentic power - and you grow spiritually. The frightened parts of your personality come less frequently and with less intensity, and the loving parts fill more and more of your consciousness.

You're cutting off your nose to spite your face if you try to be self-consciously cutting-edge.

People who have money to spend are always okay with splitting the bill. People who don't can't think that way - they've consciously ordered less.

Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.

I began to see what people were capable of doing. Anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head.

The world is a looking glass. It gives back to every man a true reflection of his own thoughts. Rule your mind or it will rule you.

The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer.

The evolution of man is the evolution of his consciousness, and 'consciousness' cannot evolve unconsciously. The evolution of man is the evolution of his will, and 'will' cannot evolve involuntarily.

Men believe themselves to be free, simply because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions are determined.

If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self—himself—he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it.

As long as a man feels that he is the most important thing in the world he cannot really appreciate the world around him.

Man's chief delusion is his conviction that there are causes other than his own state of consciousness.

Every man today is the result of his thoughts yesterday.

Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists.

The genius of man is hidden in the silent, settled state of mind from where every thought emerges.

But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

Man know thyself; then thou shalt know the Universe and God.

There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.

When a man begins to know himself a little he will see in himself many things that are bound to horrify him. So long as a man is not horrified at himself he knows nothing about himself.