Awakening Quote by Milarepa

Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.

— Anonymous

You think, you become that thought. And consciousness, or the state of pure awareness, is lost.

— Barry Long

The unconscious sends all sorts of vapors, odd beings, terrors, and deluding images up into the mind - whether in dream, broad daylight, or…

— Joseph Campbell

Sometimes consciousness devises an obstacle in order to have the experience of transcending it.

— Mooji

Floating in and out of consciousness...

— Drake

my brain Worked with a dim and undetermined sense Of unknown modes of being; o'er my thoughts There hung a darkness, call it solitude…

— William Wordsworth

All of consciousness is shifted from the imagined, the revisive, to the effort to perceive simply the cruel radiance of what is

— James Agee

Evasion of the unadorned immediacy of life is as deep-seated as it is relentless. Even with the ardent desire to be aware and alert…

— Stephen Batchelor

Filling the conscious mind with ideal conceptions is a characteristic of Western theosophy, but not the confrontation with the Shadow and the world of…

— Carl Jung

The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from…

— Sigmund Freud

An inflated consciousness is always egocentric and conscious of nothing but its own existence. It is incapable of learning from the past, incapable of…

— Carl Jung

Attempting to understand consciousness with your mind, is like trying to illuminate the sun with a candle...

— Mooji