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As the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation back to itself, and so gathers with itself.

As the brain-changes are continuous, so do all these consciousnesses melt into each other like dissolving views. Properly they are but one protracted consciousness, one unbroken stream.

A state of consciousness is characteristically very transitory; an idea that is conscious now is no longer so a moment later, although it can become so again under certain conditions that are easily brought about.

As the meditation evolves, you attention passes into higher realms of consciousness.

As the watcher of the screen, you are perfect. The movie that is playing on the screen might be horrendous, but you are not the movie. You are what is watching the movie.

As we grow in higher consciousness, we discover that it is more important to be the right person then to find the right person.

Attaining consciousness is connected with the gradual liberation from mechanicalness, for man is fully and completely under mechanical laws.

At the core of everything that is hurtful to humanity is a lack of consciousness.

A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.

Awareness is an inner quality of consciousness; it has nothing to do with closed or open eyes.

Awareness is conscious connection with universal intelligence. Another word for it is Presence: consciousness without thought.

Awareness is wakefulness. Wakefulness is consciousness. Consciousness is limitless awareness.

Awareness of the inner body is consciousness remembering its origin and returning to the Source.

A witnessing consciousness lives in life but with tremendous non-attachment, with great non-possessiveness; it possesses nothing. It lives totally, it lives passionately, but still knowing that I don't possess anything.

A writer has a use for his experiences that most civilians simply don't; he or she discerns material in situations that others simply live through. Perhaps there are some who disapprove of this, but without this double consciousness, literature would not get made at all.

A young man is stirred and stimulated by the consciousness of how much depends upon his own exertions: a young girl is oppressed by it.

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

Banning capital punishment takes us to a higher state of consciousness.

Balance is the natural state of life, because the basic characteristic of the fundamental element of life, pure consciousness, is complete balance.

Because our consciousness is tied to the physical manifestation of reality, we are tied to the belief in separation.

Barnacles on the container ship of consciousness.

Because someone is a lama or is part of a monastic order or claims to be part of a succession, doesn't really mean they know anything. Always examine the individual's consciousness, their ability to transmit light.

Be Consciousness (Itself)- Contemplate Consciousness (Itself)- Transcend Everything in Consciousness (Itself).

"Bhagavad Gita" is an examination of consciousness and the desire of human beings and the quest that we have as human beings to understand ourselves; that it was a map, you might say, for exploring the territory that leads us to find out things about ourselves.

Before perception, before a preceiver, existence was - is. This is the consciousness that we refer to as nirvana, God, eternity.

Being aware of awareness itself only consciousness can get you there to the truth of yourself the immortal inner being.

Being a physicist, not a philosopher, I have devised an entirely new theory of consciousness, allowing one to numerically calculate the level of consciounsess of humans and even animals.

Beyond learning and unlearning is awareness, and beyond awareness is consciousness, and beyond consciousness is immortality, and beyond immortality is dharma and beyond dharma is nirvana.

Blaming none, disrespecting nothing is the doorway to Unity Consciousness.

But can one not conceive of a presence, and of a presence to itself of the subject before speech or signs, a presence to itself of the subject in a silent and intuitive consciousness? Such a question therefore presupposes that, prior to the sign, and outside it, excluding any trace and any différance, something like consciousness is possible.

Bring the child to the consciousness of his own dignity and he will feel free.

Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn’t know you knew.

But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob; it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right.

But I owe something to Vincent, and that is, in the consciousness of having been useful to him, the confirmation of my own original ideas about painting. And also, at difficult moments, the remembrance that one finds others unhappier than oneself.

But one wants the idea of Death, you know, as something large and unknowable, something that allows a person to stretch himself out. Especially one wants it if one is tired. Or perhaps what one wants is simply a release from sensation, from all consciousness for ever.

But there's a shift happening in humanity, a shift in consciousness, happening now because it has to happen now.

By penetrating to the core of our own being, we can make contact with the consciousness at the center of the universe.

By fully tuning in to the now moment in your life, you will discover that you always have enough to enjoy every moment of your life. The only reason you have not been happy every instant is that you have been dominating your consciousness with thoughts about something you don't have- or trying to hold on to something that you do have but which is no longer appropriate in the present flow of your life.

By whatever name one calls it, genuine creativity is characterized by an intensity of awareness, a heightened consciousness.

Christ, Buddha, and Krishna are but waves in the Ocean of Infinite Consciousness that I am!

Choose your intention carefully and then practice holding your consciousness to it, so it becomes the guiding light in your life.

Change of state is not the point; recognizing the Changeless is the point, recognizing primordial Emptiness is the point, and if you are breathing and vaguely awake, that state of consciousness will do just fine.

Conflict exists strictly as an opportunity to raise our consciousness.

Compassion is one of the highest states of consciousness that you can choose to assist you in times of enormous pain.

Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.

Consciousness is a disease.

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

Consciousness is nature's nightmare.

Consciousness is nothing but awareness the composite of all the thing we pay attention to.

Consciousness is the original sin: consciousness of the inevitability of our death.