Consciousness Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

We suffer from a hallucination, from a false and distorted sensation of our own existence as living organisms. Most of us have the sensation…

— Alan Watts

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

— Ramana Maharshi

Suppose you turn your attention inward in search of this 'I'. You may encounter nothing more than an ever changing stream of consciousness, a…

— Jim Holt

I'm most connected to myself when I'm alone in a room, moving my hand across a page. That's when I feel most like me.

— Dani Shapiro

If I want to realize totality in my consciousness, I have to relate myself to an immense, ludicrous, and painful convulsion of all of…

— Georges Bataille

“Every being experiences themselves as the center of their experience. Consciousness is what lies at our very core, and connects us all to each…

— Joseph P. Kauffman

You are not the feelings or the thoughts or the contents of your awareness. None of these are who you are. You are the…

— A. H. Almaas

In you, as in each human being, there is a dimension of consciousness far deeper than thought. It is the very essence of who…

— Eckhart Tolle

When you feel expansion of your consciousness, that is the most ecstatic experience possible, because suddenly you are the whole universe. Stars are within…

— Rajneesh

“The psyche of some people, whether through innate structure or via adaption to personal experiences, is uniquely adept for absolute aloneness.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

If you dig deeply, you will find that you are not a singular self but that there are many selves, many voices within you.…

— Frederick Lenz

“The act of consciousness is central; otherwise we are overrun by the complexes. The hero in each of us is required to answer the…

— James Hollis