Consciousness is nature's nightmare.

The first serious consciousness of Nature's gesture - her attitude towards life-took form then as a phantasm, a nightmare, all insanity of force. For…

— Henry Adams

“Not only can nobody deny the appearance of mere consciousness whose nature is other-dependent and not affected by the flaw of conceptions of a…

— Karl Brunnholzl

You may command Nature to the extent only in which you are willing to obey her. You cannot intelligently obey that which you do…

— Walter Russell

Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.

— Alan Watts

“Consciousness is part of our nature as sentient beings, but doesn’t mean we are aware at a particular moment. By perceiving our consciousness -…

— Ilchi Lee

“The nature of one's own consciousness is the same as the nature of God and Godhead and, therefore, to know God, one must seek…

— Tau Malachi

Our great thoughts, our great affections, the truths of our life, never leave us. Surely they can not separate from our consciousness, shall follow…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Why chase after thoughts, which are superficial ripples of present awareness? Rather look directly into the naked, empty nature of thoughts; then there is…

— Jamgon Kongtrul

To become aware of the subtlety of nature you need to be alert. The moment you become alert you become still... thinking subsides. That…

— Eckhart Tolle

A language possesses utility only insofar as it can construct conventional boundaries. A language of no boundaries is no language at all, and thus…

— Ken Wilber

“Entropy is the normal state of consciousness—a condition that is neither useful nor enjoyable. To avoid this condition, people are naturally eager to fill…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

It is proposed that a form of free dialogue may well be one of the most effective ways of investigating the crisis which faces…

— David Bohm

With the realization of God comes all power. If the little wave knew that behind it is the great ocean, it could say, "I…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

How wonderful it would be to scatter words as they rise to consciousness, to let them lie where they fall.

— Joanna Scott