What Is Consciousness Quotes

Merge your consciousness with that of a luminous being ... and then from there to eternity.

If you were in a perfected state of consciousness, you would only see perfection in all things.

But yet I am firmly persuaded that a great deal of consciousness, every sort of consciousness, in fact, is a disease.

And yet I am convinced that man will never give up true suffering- that is, destruction and chaos. Why, suffering is the sole root of consciousness.

Thus, as a result of heightened consciousness, a man feels as if it's all right if he's bad as long as he knows it- as though that were any consolation.

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.

All the senses awaken and fall into harmony in poetic reverie. Poetic reverie listens to this polyphony of the senses, and the poetic consciousness must record it.

It is through the intentionality of poetic imagination that the poet's soul discovers the opening of consciousness common to all true poetry.

Consciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the geographers and the naturalists.

Meanwhile, followers of Eastern religions are sitting in the middle of their minds, experiencing a bliss and a level of consciousness that Western man can't begin to approach.

The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes.

Solomon's Proverbs, I think, have omitted to say, that as the sore palate findeth grit, so an uneasy consciousness heareth innuendos.

The best thing you can give is God consciousness. Manifest your own divinity first. The truth is there. It's right within us all. Understand what you are.

The greatest thing anyone can give humanity is God consciousness.

Monologues, in some ways, are the most scientific descriptions of consciousness and even of gatherings.

The consciousness of having discharged that duty which we owe to our country is superior to all other considerations.

If I want to realize totality in my consciousness, I have to relate myself to an immense, ludicrous, and painful convulsion of all of humanity.

Every revolution begins as consciousness because some group of people has to imagine change.

Silence is the medium of source between you and your ego consciousness.

You only communicate to pass the time, or to express the emotions. Your tongue has to develop [the capacity] to speak consciousness.

Love fundamentally is the most powerful ecstasy of consciousness, and even if a person goes blind, there is no question when you are in love.

When we work from the Soul consciousness, we can shape our own destiny.

We recognise that Soul is eternal; It has no beginning or ending. Therefore, when a person leaves his physical body, he continues to exist, usually on a higher plane of consciousness.

Every issue of life is determined not by external conditions and things, but by one's consciousness.

Properly speaking, should any individual ever have exact, clear knowledge of his own core consciousness?" "I wouldn't know," I said. "Nor would we," said the scientists.

Waves of thought are stirring. In a twilight corner of her consciousness, one tiny fragment and another tiny fragment call out wordlessly to eachother, their spreading ripples intermingling.

Her voice was like a line from an old black-and-white Jean-Luc Godard movie, filtering in just beyond the frame of my consciousness.

The best musicians transpose consciousness into sound; painters do the same for color and shape.

Falling in love is like religious conversion. It goes on for a long time below the threshold before it reaches consciousness.

We bless and curse ourselves.

Certainly I think the state is more than willing to not only attempt to change the consciousness of people, but to employ violence in ways that make people quite fearful.

The moment one is on the side of life; peace and security drop out of consciousness. The only peace, the only security, is in fulfillment.

The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

The happy consciousness is shaky enough a thin surface over fear, frustration, and disgust.

The severest punishment suffered by a sensitive mind, for injury inflicted upon another, is the consciousness of having done it.

I've already become a mastodon in print - I don't see a consciousness for my kind of journalism.

What I teach is how to go inside and reach that place I call "love consciousness." This is a place of peace and joy that is within all humans.

Once we do fill the void and experience the expansion in consciousness, we realize there is enough and has always been enough. We've always had exactly what we've needed in every moment.

My vision is to elevate the consciousness of humanity one mind, one heart, one life, one spirit at a time. They are married.

... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness

No one knows how this world came into being. It is a creation of consciousness itself. It's extraordinary, a mystery.

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

It's the nature of human consciousness to look for trouble constantly, and we find it. We find it.

Magazines, books, novels, TV, internet, movies - all of those things is what creates our consciousness.

I'd like to see the Second Coming in every one of us. That we all be Jesus. That we all embody that consciousness.

The main thing I don't like about myself is an absurd level of self-consciousness that makes any sort of social encounter an ordeal for me.

I can't predict what songs will do to the collective consciousness.

A cockroach likely has no less brainpower than a butterfly, but we're quicker to deny it consciousness because it's a species we dislike.

The Buddhists say there are 121 states of consciousness. Of these, only three involve misery or suffering. Most of us spend our time moving back and forth between these three.

When it comes to the fundamental issues that humanity faces, I think that solutions involve shifting consciousness towards cooperation.