Consciousness Quotes · Page 45

A writer's self-consciousness, for which he is much scorned, is really a mode of interestedness, that inevitably turns outward.

— John Updike

Waking consciousness is dreaming – but dreaming constrained by external reality

— Oliver Sacks

I am conscious of my own limitations. That consciousness is my only strength.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“You are not who you think. You're not even the thinker. You are the one conscious of the thought.”

— Kamand Kojouri

Neither failure nor success has the power to change your inner state of Being.

— Eckhart Tolle

“Why, if it weren't for this 'internal illumination' [i.e., sentience] the world would be nothing but a pile of dirt!”

— Albert Einstein

“No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it. - Albert Einstein”

— Lisa Warner

This sunlight linked me through the ages to that past consciousness.

— Anonymous

Volition . . . takes place only when there are a number of conflicting systems of ideas, and depends on our having…

— William James

I will work on myself, since the work on myself is going to be the highest thing I can do for it…

— Ram Dass

When your consciousness is directed outward, mind and world arise. When it is directed inward, it realises its own Source and returns…

— Eckhart Tolle

Miracles have a purpose. Miracles help people believe in enlightenment. The real miracle is the transformation of consciousness from limitation and pain…

— Frederick Lenz

“Because consciousness has no mass and extension, no parts or physical properties, it is Nothing, which on the other hand, can generate…

— Ilchi Lee

I make up the characters in my books, but of course my consciousness is filled with every child I've ever known, including…

— Lois Lowry

See who is the doubter, who is the thinker. It is the ego. Hold it; the other thoughts will die away -…

— Ramana Maharshi

A creature that cannot grasp the mutual exclusiveness of A and not A has no difficulty in lying; more than that, such…

— Otto Weininger

We are afraid of ourselves and our own unconscious minds. When we are building something that reflects us, it's the one thing…

— Gray Scott

To get past your ego and its defenses you need to get quiet, be brave, and listen to your inner voices…When you…

— Debbie Ford

Meditation is a deliberate attempt to pierce into the higher states of consciousness and finally go beyond it. The art of meditation…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Teo had once claimed that human history began with a storm: the interval between lightning and thunder, between flash and rumble felt…

— Max Gladstone

My point of view actually on artificial intelligence, which ties into the nature for humans constantly looking into the reasons for why…

— Neill Blomkamp

The press has let the country down. It's taken a very amoral stand, in that essential issues are often portrayed as simply…

— Bruce Springsteen

“When our consciousness has become a haven of illusions, our mind may have a hard time to fight the maze in our…

— Erik Pevernagie

The disenfranchised offspring, along with an entire ageless class of human discards, know only that they are doomed. They are drawn to…

— Adam Parfrey

An intention is a quality of consciousness that you bring to an action.

— Gary Zukav

Although you appear in earthly form Your essence is pure Consciousness. You are the fearless guardian of Divine Light.

— Rumi

When we start to heal and perceive what I call love consciousness, we begin to perceive reality.

— Isha Judd

'The Magic Flute,' I think, is fundamentally asking what is it to change people's consciousness.

— Simon McBurney

The media has affected everybody's consciousness much more than most people will admit.

— George Michael

The only Revolution that can really change the world is the one in your own consciousness, and mine has already begun.

— Russell Brand

I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience.

— Marguerite Young

Religion is consciousness-raising. It raises you higher than the problem, it gives you a bird's-eye view.

— Rajneesh

To create a mess in which we perish by our own inaction makes nonsense of our claim to consciousness and morality

— Bill Mollison

A change of circumstance happens as a result of a change in your state of consciousness.

— Neville Goddard

The moment I am aware that I am aware, I am not aware. Awareness means the observer is not.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Life is not defined by what you have achieved, life is defined by the degree of consciousness.”

— Shiva Negi

No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight of the soul

— Ingmar Bergman

Global consciousness is that thing responsible for deciding that pots containing decaffeinated coffee should be orange.

— Danny Hillis

Ninety-five percent of thought, emotion, and learning occur in the unconscious mind--that is, without our awareness,

— Gerald Zaltman

Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.

— Ramana Maharshi