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Consciousness ("here" and "now") is not "false and misleading" because of language; consciousness is language, and nothing else, because it is false and misleading.

Consciousness is a state of existence where subjects are aware of their surroundings and can respond to its demands according to internal and external perceptions.

Consciousness is clear; it reflects colors of the vessel.

Consciousness is everywhere, let it fill you up.

Consciousness is naturally shamanic.

Consciousness is not just interaction of neurotransmitters in the brain it has also some quantum cosmic component.

Consciousness is our gateway to experience: It enables us to recognize Van Gogh’s starry skies, be enraptured by Beethoven’s Fifth, and stand in awe of a snowcapped mountain. Yet consciousness is subjective, personal, and famously difficult to examine.

Consciousness is the chronic pain of life, and all higher organisms suffer it every waking moment.

Consciousness is the essence and evidence of life. Without consciousness, how can there be life?

Consciousness is what I am, not who I am. There is a big difference. The real entity is the consciousness, not me being conscious. If you can experience that, only then will you realise a degree of contentedness, because then there is nothing miss. All is well with the world.

Consciousness blooms with the expansion of the heart.

Consciousness consists in a being becoming objective to itself; … it is nothing apart, nothing distinct from the being which is conscious of itself.

Consciousness has no religion, and love can bloom in every season.

Consciousness is a much smaller part of our mental life than we are conscious of, because we cannot be conscious of what we are not conscious of. How simple that is to say; how difficult to appreciate! It is like asking a flashlight in a dark room to search around for something that does not have any light shining upon it. The flashlight, since there is light in whatever direction it turns, would have to conclude that there is light everywhere. And so consciousness can seem to pervade all mentality when actually it does not.

Consciousness is a vast ocean and thinking is the waves & ripples on the surface of the ocean. Every wave & ripple has a very short lived life - it is very fleeting Do not identify with your thoughts - continued indentification with the stream of thinking leads to a very serious dysfunction in ones sense of identity...

Consciousness is the core of humanity. It can be a curse or it can be a cure. Only humanity can decide how to break the curse and be the cure.

Consciousness provides the fertile ground where seeds of greatness are born.

Conscious Parenting on Children's Happiness and matrix of influences: 'We live surrounded by an increasingly complex matrix of impulses allowing strangers of all sorts (TV, media, Internet) interfere in our children’s mental, emotional and spiritual development. Understanding this intricate network and how does the human brain interacts with it is increasingly becoming our door to happiness and health.

Conscience is worse than death, some people commit suicide to evade it.

Consciousness is a transformational dynamic force which transforms us by changing our imaginations and perceptions.

Consciousness is in this present moment, the awareness with every cell in your body the direct and experience of love.

Consciousness is like a light bulb. We can dim it or brighten it with the power of awareness, love, compassion, and kindness.

Consciousness is man's greatest misfortune, still I know that man loves it and will not exchange it for any satisfactions.

Consciousness is the only home of which we know.

Consciousness is very personal like happiness, sadness, or awareness. You can only feel it and you cannot see it. It does not follow any quantum rules. It has no weight or dimension and does not occupy any space. Consciousness has no beginning and no end.

Consciousness is who we really are; thoughts, feelings, and emotions are passing and temporary, but consciousness is existence.

Consciousness makes you an unlimited being by giving the power of your imagination.

Consciousness doesn't emerge from matter because it has always been in matter. Consciousness is a fundamental quality that exists everywhere and in everything.

Consciousness is a born hermit.

Consciousness is a magic of our brain and an illusion of our mind.

Consciousness is an ocean where we swim without knowing its significance, existence, depth, dimension, or vastness. If we go out of this ocean, we will not exist anymore.

Consciousness is a result of environment. Our cognitions -- our idea of reality—are shaped by what we can perceive, by the limitations of our senses. We think we’re seeing the world as it really is, but… it’s all just shadows on the cave’s wall.

Consciousness is a very simple phenomenon. Because we don’t understand it, we think it is a very complicated process.

Consciousness is nothing but a neuro-chemical and a mechanical action of the body. Consciousness is important, but the expression of thoughts with language makes us human. Everything is conscious, but levels of consciousness are different.

Consciousness is the awareness of the interaction and interdependence among mind, body, spirit, and the universe where it resides.

Consciousness is the product of electrochemical signalling in the neurons of your brain. So when the brain stops functioning fully, your consciousness, or to a broader aspect your mind ceases to exist with its unique individualistic qualities. It's like the soothing flow of water. It is only water as long as its internal realm of two atoms of hydrogen and one atom of oxygen, remains intact. If you break that structure which we call H20, it ceases to be water. Likewise a soul remains a soul, as longs as its neural structures remain intact. If you mess with those structure, then the entire personality of the soul may get radically altered. So, to think even further, if those neural structures inside your head stop working, then the soul ceases to exist forever. So, as long as you have a functional brain, you exist, and the moment that brain dies you die.

Consciousness may be seen as the haughty and restless second cousin of morphology. Memory is its mistress, perception its somewhat abused wife, logic its housekeeper, and language its poorly paid secretary

Consciousness of the world itself is nature. And when you destroy nature you block off consciousness from the world.

Consciousness resides in the gap between electrons, protons, and neutrons.

Conscious minds can, at the most, comprehend that the whole idea of a 'God' is his superiority, his omnipotence, omnipresence, and omniscience; and therefore, at the least, desire him, someone far greater than themselves.

Consciousness ain't slower than a blink of an eye.

Consciousness cannot be glimpsed as though it were something outside yourself, because it is you.

Consciousness has evolved biologically and can therefore be explained biologically.

Consciousness has no units. We can say it is like a fluid or gas, but without quantification, by Starman.

Consciousness is a result of environment. Our cognitions -- our idea of reality—are shaped by what we can perceive, by the limitations of our senses. We think we’re seeing the world as it really is, but... it’s all just shadows on the cave’s wall.... Every moment is equally real and happening now, but the nature of our consciousness only gives us access to one slice at a time.... Our flawed perception shuts off access to all the others.

Consciousness is basic while thoughts are supreme. Speeches are nothing but the expression of thoughts and feelings. If there is no consciousness, nothing else could be there. At the same time, all forms of consciousness will not give the abilities to think and express thoughts.

Consciousness is continually widening its expanse. One becomes more and more conscious, but not as an individual. Ultimately there is no self-consciousness, and no self. The only reality is consciousness itself, no separation. When a person meditates deeply they lose awareness of the body and become part of this expanse of consciousness. They become aware that what they thought was their own consciousness is part of Consciousness itself.

Consciousness is like cyberspace, it is there where we can keep all of our information. We can find it if we know the codes. We can grow our consciousness as we grow cyberspace.

​Consciousness is simple, if you are bold enough to accept it as simple.

Consciousness is simply the brain’s neural response to its surrounding environmental stimuli. Hence when the neural circuits malfunction, Consciousness tends to malfunction as well.