Consciousness Quotes · Page 27

I think if people raise their consciousness and find a purpose, everybody will be helped.

— Marina Abramovic

“There is machinery in the mind that is consciousness. Knowing the machine is the dawn of a new era.”

— Allan Wesler

God writes spiritual Mysteries on our heart, where they wait silently for discovery.

— Rumi

One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humor.

— Marshall McLuhan

Everyone has a right to change their consciousness, but ultimately the whole process is misleading.

— Robyn Hitchcock

Quantum mechanics is confusing and consciousness is confusing, so maybe they're the same.

— Scott Aaronson

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The art of yoga has nothing to do with bending and twisting your body, and everything to do with unbending your mind.”

— Abhijit Naskar

To be an artist is not a matter of making paintings or objects at all. What we are really dealing with is…

— Robert Irwin

We demand that sex speak the truth and we demand that it tell us our truth, or rather, the deeply buried truth…

— Michel Foucault

When people talk about the singularity, when people talk about superintelligent AI, they're not talking about sentience or consciousness. They're talking about…

— Stuart J. Russell

The pleasure a man of honor enjoys in the consciousness of having performed his duty is a reward he pays himself for…

— Jean de la Bruyere

If we don't change, if the egoic consciousness continues, I don't believe that humanity as a species can survive, or at least…

— Eckhart Tolle

A human being is bound by emotion, enslaved by their desires. A person is never really at peace with themselves because they…

— Frederick Lenz

I read Gide's 'The Immoralist' over and over as a teenager. I was obsessed with it. It's written with such simplicity and…

— Lawrence Osborne

As we take, in fact, a general view of the wonderful stream of our consciousness, what strikes us first is this different…

— William James

Jesus represents a point of common ground an esteemed rabbi to the Jew, a god to the Hindu, an enlightened one to…

— Philip Yancey

There has certainly been a great deal of work addressing the relationship between naturalism and the first-person perspective. Quite a number of…

— Hilary Kornblith

I am 100 percent on the side of insisting that white people step up to a different level of consciousness and commitment…

— Van Jones

“To be aware is an extraordinary state of mind to be aware of your surroundings, of the trees, the bird that is…

— j.Krishnamurti

I think a lot of people in my circle are thinking that way or see the movie [Into the Forest] and then…

— Ellen Page

“My only reality was a mass of radiant swirling energy of immense proportions that seemed to contain all existence in a condensed…

— Ralph Metzner

I attempt to read one book every day. I don't always achieve that, especially when I'm traveling. But when I'm home, I…

— Jack Canfield

We have a closed circle of consistency here: the laws of physics produce complex systems, and these complex systems lead to consciousness,…

— Roger Penrose

“May your sleep be your death, and your wakefulness be your heaven.”

— Anthony Liccione

We're all affected by music. It has the power to inspire, uplift us, change our moods, and even alter consciousness.

— Andrew Weil

The creative principle is less about dogma and more about opening ourselves to the evolution of consciousness.

— Alex Grey

Each of us can manifest the properties of a field of consciousness that transcends space, time, and linear causality.

— Stanislav Grof

I think death is just a transition to another state of consciousness.

— Val Kilmer

But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.

— Audre Lorde

Language is the currency of consciousness. We speak to fill the void. We write it down to remember.

— Andrew Lakey

How does the water of the brain turn into the wine of consciousness?

— David Chalmers

Pocketknives are kind of drifting out of our cultural consciousness, which I think is a terrible thing.

— Gever Tulley

The consciousness of the past weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.

— Karl Marx

There's a constant drip and trickle of life that goes into one's awareness really and consciousness of things.

— Mike Leigh

“Magick is the manipulation of the Laws of Cause-and-Effect in accordance with one's Will, via states of Higher Consciousness.”

— J.Adam Snyder

The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

— Henry Miller

To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated.

— James P. Carse

Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.

— Sri Aurobindo

Awareness isn’t something we own; awareness isn’t something we possess. Awareness is actually what we are.

— Adyashanti