I am a consciousness. The landscape thinks itself through…

The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.

— Paul Cezanne

“The Landscape becomes reflective, human and thinks itself though me. I make it an object, let it project itself and endure within my painting…I…

— Paul Cézanne

The consciousness that says 'I am' is not the consciousness that thinks.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Silence has been destroyed, but also the idea that it's important to learn how another person thinks, to enter the mind of another person.…

— Gary Shteyngart

“I like the fact that she thinks. The human face is so legible that it sometimes seems possible to watch their thoughts, the way…

— Laura Bradley Rede

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

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