Conscious Awareness Quotes

• Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspiring, Karma, Spiritual

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.38, Penguin

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• Awareness of your weakness and confusion makes you strong because conscious awareness is the bright light that destroys the darkness of negativity. Detection of inner negativity is not a negative act, but a courageously positive act that makes you a new person.

  Vernon Howard

  Strong, Light, Confusion

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• We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Life, Spiritual, Positive Thinking

  "The Phenomenon of Man". Book by Pierre Teilhard De Chardin, 1955.

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• The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

  Aristotle

  Life, Philosophical, Survival

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• Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at the moment.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Life, Karma

  FaceBook post by Eckhart Tolle from Feb 21, 2013

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• I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.

  Billie Jean King

  Success, Motivational Sports, Women

  "The New Edge in Sports Performance and Results" by Howard Falco, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 22, 2015.

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• The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Growing Up, Keys

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  Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

  James Thurber

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  James Thurber (1983). “Credos and Curios”, HarperCollins

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• Conscious awareness is the source of our healing...Only when you say the truth can the truth set you free. This is not a negative process, but at times it is a difficult process.

  Marianne Williamson

  Healing, Negative, Awakening

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• A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe; a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts, and his feelings as something separate from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of consciousness.

  Albert Einstein

  Nature, Compassion, Animal

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.339, Princeton University Press

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• Your habits operate at the unconscious level; you are not normally aware of them. It's only by bringing a habit into your conscious awareness that you can observe what it's doing, how it empowers and serves you or doesn't.

  Jeff Olson

  Empowering, Levels, Awareness

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• Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness or pure consciousness.

  Sivananda

  Yoga, Meditation Practice, Mind

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• Trust your hunches... Hunches are usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.

  Joyce Brothers

  Life, Motivational, Trust

  "Words of Wisdom : More Good Advice" edited by William Safire and Leonard Safir, (p. 199), 1990.

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• The goal of prayer is to live all of my life and speak all of my words in the joyful awareness of the presence of God. Prayer becomes real when we grasp the reality and goodness of God's constant presence with 'the real me.' Jesus lived his everyday life in conscious awareness of his Father.

  John Ortberg

  Jesus, Prayer, Father

  John Ortberg (2009). “The Me I Want to Be”, p.134, Harper Collins

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• This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected--in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.

  Thomas Mann

  Love, Sight, Feelings

  Thomas Mann (2010). “Death in Venice: And Seven Other Stories”, p.186, Vintage

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• Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.

  Voltaire

  Yoga, Thinking, Meditation Practice

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• To know is not too demanding: it merely requires memory and time. But to understand is quite a different matter: it requires intellectual ability and training, a self conscious awareness of what one is doing, experience in techniques of analysis and synthesis, and above all, perspective.

  Carroll Quigley

  Memories, Self, Perspective

  Carroll Quigley (1979). “The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis”, Liberty Fund Inc.

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• Humility is the conscious awareness and acceptance of eternity as your body.

  Frederick Lenz

  Humility, Buddhism, Acceptance

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• The revelation that we have everything we need in life to make us happy but simply lack the conscious awareness to appreciate it can be as refreshing as lemonade on a hot afternoon. Or it can be as startling as cold water being thrown in our face. How many of us go through our days parched and empty, thirsting after happiness, when we’re really standing knee-deep in the river of abundance?

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Rivers, Appreciate, Water

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• When the artist activates his being, awakens to his surroundings, and sets himself the task of creating, connections are made out of conscious awareness that return coalesced as inspiration.

  Eric Maisel

  Inspiration, Artist, Creating

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• The only event in the history of our species that compares with this one is Genesis. And this is a new kind of Genesis, the Genesis of our species into conscious awareness.

  Gary Zukav

  Spiritual, Events, Kind

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• Poets often have a conscious awareness that they are struggling with the daimonic, and that the issue is their working something through from the depths which push the self to a new plane.

  Rollo May

  Struggle, Issues, Self

  Rollo May (1969). “Love and will”

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• Yoga is a removal of the conscious awareness from the world as you know it - the world that you've constructed - through your focus within your mind, to something else.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Focus, Mind

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• When all of the selves have been dissolved, you will enter into the super-conscious awareness. Then, you are free. Then, there is no suffering. Then, there is no attachment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Attachment, Self, Suffering

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• I think there's something quite interesting about the almost tragic quality of a lot of overwrought prose, because it has a much more self-conscious awareness of its own failure to touch the real.

  China Mieville

  Real, Thinking, Self

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