Do you even recognize your own consciousness?

“No consciousness that we would recognize as consciousness. Not awareness, as far as we can make out, of a self with a history. What…

— J.M. Coetzee

“A person at peace can immediately recognize a consciousness in crisis, whereas those in crisis cannot fully understand themselves or others.”

— Bryant McGill

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

In other words, the real problem is not exterior. The real problem is interior. The real problem is how to get people to internally…

— Ken Wilber

The most striking feature of the perennial philosophy/psychology is that it presents being and consciousness as a hierarchy of dimensional levels, moving from the…

— Ken Wilber

I don't think my paintings are self-conscious but you feel the consciousness of them. Without them being self-conscious.

— Julian Schnabel

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

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward which we…

— Rollo May

Floating in and out of consciousness...

— Drake

So many people are passive participants in their very short time of having a consciousness, and those who aren't inspire me. Like Malala Yousafzai…

— Dylan Gelulla

“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