Best 2905 quotes in «consciousness quotes» category

In meditation...the power of God begins to reflect in the clear waters of your consciousness.

In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.

In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender

In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social.

Instead of indulging in mere speculation, devote yourself here and now to the search for the Truth that is ever within you.

Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.

Intention involves such a small fragment of our consciousness and of our mind and of our life.

In terms of having high hopes that the level of consciousness will get higher and higher, yeah.

In the consciousness of the end is the limitation of the moment.

In the crystal of the awakened consciousness, one facet is love.

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

In the consciousness of the infinite, the conscious subject has for his object the infinity of his own nature.

In the consciousness of eternity, time is not, neither is space. In man's consciousness there appears so much mercy, so much love, that these have been called time and space.

In the face of death, especially violent death, things don't make sense anymore. So death is the dissolution of either physical form or psychological form. And when a form dissolves, always something shines through that had been obscured by the form. This is the formless One Life, the formless One Consciousness.

In the history of the collective as in the history of the individual, everything depends on the development of consciousness.

In the midst of creating, a person is raised to another level of consciousness.

In the realm of divine consciousness, you can see beyond beliefs, beyond knowing, and beyond not knowing.

in the presence of extraordinary actuality, consciousness takes the place of imagination.

In the yoga of love we learn to love consciousness. Consciousness is existence. It is the very stuff of which life is composed.

I regard individuality as the most precious trait we have, because without it there is no creativity, there is no consciousness, there is no rationality. There is nothing that could make me speak more strongly to this point.

I often say that Bernhard, W.G. Sebald, and Javier Marías are my stylistic holy trinity, prose writers who amaze me with their notation of consciousness and voice.

I realize that I was all error and deviation, that I never lived, that I existed only in so far as I filled time with consciousness and thought.

I really like when people do 'stream of consciousness' tweeting, or when people's tweets come across as sort of manic and mostly unedited.

In truth, ideology has very little to do with 'consciousness', even supposing this term to have an unambiguous meaning. It is profoundly unconscious, even when it presents itself in a reflected form.

I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as a derivative of consciousness.

Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.

I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.

Ist es an und fu? r sich absurd, das Nichtsein fu? r einUbel zu ? halten; da jedes Ubel wie jedes Gut das Dasein zur Voraussetzung hat, ja sogar das Bewusstsein. It is in and by itself absurd to regard non-existence as an evil; for every evil, like every good, presupposes existence, indeed even consciousness.

I Should Just Stop Tweeting, The Human Consciousness Must Raise Before I Speak My Juvenile Philosophy.

I sort of see [cannabis] as the pilot light of Gian consciousness.

I suppose I've become less judgmental about individuals leading lives according to false ideas and false consciousness, because sometimes entire societies are prey to false ideologies and national delusions.

I swear to you, sirs, that excessive consciousness is a disease--a genuine, absolute disease.

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

I think because the show ["Grant MacLaren"] is essentially a hopeful show. The show says that as bleak as the future is, the one thing that mankind developed was the ability to send their consciousness back and where a lot of the institutions of modern life have fallen apart.

It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.

I think human consciousness is a misstep in evolution. We became too self-aware, nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself. We are creatures that should not exist by natural law.

It is joyous for any actor to enter other grounds of consciousness and thought. At the end of the day, we just all like dressing up and playing around.

It is He who manifests as both matter and consciousness. There is no place where God is not. In every atom, in every living being He alone is present.

It is just man's turning away from instinct--his opposing himself to instinct--that creates consciousness. Instinct is nature andseeks to perpetuate nature; while consciousness can only seek culture or its denial.

It is partly to avoid consciousness of greed that we prefer to associate with those who are at least as greedy as we ourselves. Those who consume much less are a reproach.

It is on the whole probably that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it.

It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.

It is only by embracing the full spectrum of human consciousness that we can bring about a true awakening of the heart

It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.

It's hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness.

It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.

It seems that what I really want is a drug that will increase my consciousness of others, not myself.

It's from our sufferings that we form our consciousness.

It is the natural and inherent impulse of life to seek to live more, it is the nature of intelligence to enlarge itself, and of consciousness to seek to extend its boundaries and find fuller expression.

I told myself – as I’ve told myself before – that the body shuts down when the pain gets too bad, that consciousness is temporary, that this will pass. But just like always, I didn’t slip away. I was left on the shore with the waves washing over me, unable to drown.