Enlightenment is any experience of expanding our…

Enlightenment is any experience of expanding our consciousness beyond its present limits. We could also say that perfect enlightenment is realizing that we have…

— Thaddeus Golas

The kind of approach that inspires me is taking what you've built and figuring out how to turn it into a new experience by…

— Steve Gaynor

From the standpoint of our spiritual development, it might be important for us to realize that we came from an unknown somewhere; we brought…

— John Templeton

I'll tell you what I think. I think sages are the growing tip of the secret impulse of evolution. I think they are the…

— Ken Wilber

The side effect of expanding consciousness is that negativity starts to evaporate; it goes away like darkness when you turn on a light.

— David Lynch

I am also interested in music expanding consciousness. By expanding consciousness, I mean that old patterns can be replaced with new ones.

— Pauline Oliveros

“A play that takes as its burden the meaning of self-consciousness may hint that inner freedom can be attained only when the protagonist can…

— Harold Bloom

Tied to consciousness are all positive qualities, so that ocean within is an ocean of unbounded intelligence, unbounded creativity, unbounded happiness, unbounded love, unbounded…

— David Lynch

The side effect of expanding consciousness is that negativity starts to evaporate; it goes away like darkness when you turn on a light. Many…

— David Lynch

The reverie we intend to study is poetic reverie. This is a reverie which poetry puts on the right track, the track an expanding…

— Gaston Bachelard

When one past thought has ceased and a future thought has not yet risen, in that gap, in between, isn't there a consciousness of…

— Sogyal Rinpoche

Awareness means that whatsoever is happening in the moment is happening with complete consciousness; you are present there. If you are present when anger…

— Anonymous

It just is nothing foreign to consciousness at all that could present itself to consciousness through the mediation of phenomena different from the liking…

— Edmund Husserl

The ultimate Consciousness is always present everywhere. It is beyond space and time, with not before or after. It is undeniable and obvious. So…

— Abhinavagupta

“Human consciousness at present is a sort of battlefield. And you know what Tolstoy tells us about battles in War and Peace. Nobody really…

— Saul Bellow