Consciousness Quotes

When your heart's gratitude comes to the fore, when you become all gratitude, this gratitude is like a flow, a flow of consciousness. When your consciousness is flowing, feel that this gratitude-flow is like a river that is watering the root of the tree and the tree itself. It is always through gratitude that your consciousness-river will grow and water the perfection-tree inside you.

~ Sri Chinmoy

The soul is infinite, made up of aspects that come and go all the time. It’s our nature for parts of the soul to travel while we meditate or dream. Through this process we grow, we learn new thoughts, thus desires, and our consciousness evolves.

~ S. Kelley Harrell

It is on the consciousness level of the heart that we begin to understand that we are not separated from life. We begin to understand that we are not small separate islands in a great ocean, but that life is one and that we all are small parts of the Whole. We begin to understand what is really important and meaningful in life. It is on the consciousness level of the heart that we begin to understand that life is about sharing, rather than hoarding. We begin to understand that life is about giving, rather than taking.

~ Swami Dhyan Giten

Force is incomplete and therefore has to be fed energy constantly. Power is total and complete in itself and requires nothing from outside.

~ David Hawkins

Without awareness, the current of life cedes its sense of control to other deceptive agents that take you into a life that is toxic rather than nourishing.

~ Garey Gordon

What we call consciousness is our ability to perceive stimuli and to file it within the parameters of our personal story.

~ Steve Maraboli

Real joy means immediate expansion. If we experience pure joy, immediately our heart expands. We feel that we are flying in the divine freedom-sky. The entire length and breadth of the world becomes ours, not for us to rule over, but as an expansion of our consciousness. We become reality and vastness.

~ Sri Chinmoy

Cultural criticism always attacks the mass media. I don't think that makes sense. We should look more closely at the work of deformation that starts deeper down, especially because it involves so much demoralization. Something gets destroyed there that should not be destroyed under any circumstances - THE AWARENESS THAT KNOWLEDGE IS BORN OUT OF EUPHORIA AND THAT INTELLIGENCE IS A RELATIONSHIP OF THE HAPPY CONSCIOUSNESS WITH ITSELF. And that intelligence partly consists in the ability to find our own ways of overcoming the boredom that develops in an under-used brain. Across society as a whole, the most disturbing symptom is that people are no longer ambitious enough to plumb the limits of understanding within themselves. INTELLIGENCE IS THE LAST UTOPIAN POTENTIAL. THE ONLY TERRA INCOGNITA HUMANKIND STILL OWNS ARE THE GALAXIES OF THE BRAIN, THE MILKY WAYS OF INTELLIGENCE. And there is hardly any any convincing space travel in them. Incidentally, this internal astronautics is the only alternative to a consumerist perspective. It is the only thing that could explain to people in the future that their intelligence space is so immense that they can experiment with themselves for millennia without becoming exhausted. The really good news is that there is something breathtakingly great that is called intelligence and is uncharted. ARE YOU WILLING TO VOLUNTEER ?

~ Peter Sloterdijk

My hope is that I can somehow raise the level of consciousness about world events.

~ Lisa Ling

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

~ Napoléon Bonaparte

Each of us can manifest the properties of a field of consciousness that transcends space, time, and linear causality.

~ Stanislav Grof

Without consciousness, space and time are nothing.

~ Robert Lanza

Graduation speeches force you to reflect. They are about consciousness. Nothing is better than consciousness.

~ Bruce Eric Kaplan

This sunlight linked me through the ages to that past consciousness.

~ Richard Jefferies

To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.

~ Edmund Husserl

In '42,' it's like the '40s where racial equality had come into the consciousness of a lot of people, whereas in the 1900s it was sort of a new thing.

~ Andre Holland

The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness.

~ John Updike

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

~ Andrew Carnegie

Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason.

~ Pope Francis

Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.

~ Eric Butterworth

All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved.

~ Hans Küng

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

~ Deepak Chopra

Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall - that of our consciousness - between the world and ourselves.

~ Octavio Paz

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

~ Karl Marx