Conscious Quotes - Page 8

• Happiness is self-generated. It depends on one's attitude of mind. The basis of happiness, is the simple fact that the deepest reality of our own nature is ever-existing, ever-conscious, ever-new joy.

  Goswami Kriyananda

  Happiness, Attitude, Simple

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• I must try, however, as best I can, although I am very conscious of the fact that our feelings and strivings are often contradictory and obscure and that they cannot be expressed in easy and simple formulas.

  Albert Einstein

  Simple, Feelings, Trying

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.9, Open Road Media

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• The freedom to create is somehow linked with facility of access to those obscure regions below the conscious mind.

  Loren Eiseley

  Creativity, Mind, Crafts

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• Man's greatness does not consist in being different from the animals that share the earth with him, but in being...conscious of things of which his environment has no inkling.

  Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald

  Animal, Intelligent, Greatness

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• To be conscious of gratitude is to acknowledge a gift.

  Josef Pieper

  Gratitude, Grateful, Acknowledge

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• When we are truly in this interior simplicity our whole appearance is franker, more natural. This true simplicity. . . makes us conscious of a certain openness, gentleness, innocence, gaiety, and serenity. O, how amiable this simplicity is! Who will give it to me? I leave all for this. It is the pearl of the Gospel.

  Francois Fenelon

  Giving, Simplicity, Serenity

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• Nobody ever arrives at a very big idea through a conscious, rational thought process. It comes from your unconscious.

  David Ogilvy

  Ideas, Process, Bigs

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• Take responsibility for making conscious choices.

  Deepak Chopra

  Responsibility, Choices, Taking Responsibility

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• Only an organized and conscious people can bring about a different kind of society.

  Salvador Allende

  People, Different, Kind

  Source: realterrorist.wordpress.com

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• Remember, when we're conscious of something, that state is quite often generated by unconscious processes that happen right before it.

  Edward Boyden

  Remember, States, Process

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• When we remember something, we're taking bits and pieces of experience - sometimes from different times and places - and bringing it all together to construct what might feel like a recollection but is actually a construction. The process of calling it into conscious awareness can change it, and now you're storing something that's different. We all do this, for example, by inadvertently adopting a story we've heard.

  Elizabeth Loftus

  Together, Pieces, Might

  "Loftus on False and Implanted Memories". Interview with Alison George, www.patheos.com. September 13, 2013.

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• We are not conscious of most things until we ask ourselves questions about them.

  David Eagleman

  Asks

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.64, Vintage

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• The first thing we learn from studying our own circuitry is a simple lesson: most of what we do and think and feel is not under our conscious control.

  David Eagleman

  Simple, Thinking, Lessons

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.9, Vintage

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• We are made up of an entire parliament of pieces and parts and subsystems. Beyond a collection of local expert systems, we are collections of overlapping, ceaselessly reinvented mechanism, a group of competing factions. The conscious mind fabricates stories to explain the sometimes inexplicable dynamics of the subsystem inside brain. It can be disquieting to consider the extent to which all of our actions are driven by hardwired systems doing what they do best while we overlay stories about choices.

  David Eagleman

  Choices, Mind, Brain

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.157, Vintage

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• The productive sender is the outer world, the external reality including our own body. The receiver is our deep self, the conscious ego, which then transforms the outer stimuli into a psychological experience.

  Albert Hofmann

  Reality, Self, Ego

  Interview with Stanislav Grof, www.maps.org. 1984.

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• We need to realize that we are observers and creators, and in every moment that we are observing our world, we're constantly remaking it at every instant, and that we have to understand too that every last thought we have, every judgment we hold, is having an effect whether it's conscious or not. So of course the most important thing of all is to be aware of what we are thinking and to realize it has an effect on the world around us.

  Lynne McTaggart

  Thinking, Important, World

  Source: www.lotusguide.com

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• At the end of the day we're all spirits having a physical experience. That really comes from my relationship with Islam because it just makes me really conscious of my action.

  Mahershala Ali

  Islam, Spirit, Action

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Give deliberately. Giving is at its best when it's a conscious effort that's repeatedly made.

  Randy Alcorn

  Giving, Effort

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• You contain a universe inside yourself. There's no end to it - your conscious, your subconscious. There is no limit to what's inside you. We are very much connected. There's no end to it.

  Ann Shulgin

  Subconscious, Universe

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Meditation gives you two things: equanimity and creativity. And it does that by taking one from their conscious mind, where there's all that noise and chaos and so on, into the subconscious mind where there's quiet and where creativity emanates from. You have a mantra, and when you repeat it over and over again, all those thoughts go away because you shift them to that mantra. And then eventually that sound disappears, and then you're left not conscious or unconscious - you're left in this subconscious state, and by opening that up, first of all you get control of it.

  Ray Dalio

  Creativity, Giving, Meditation

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• One of the things meditation gives you is creativity because creativity really comes from the subconscious brain - intuition, imagination - so it's not like you can go there and say, I'm going to go be creative now. Maybe you can, but the real way you get creativity is, you know, you're taking a hot shower and great ideas come to you from the subconscious. Essentially, meditation opens a pipeline between the conscious and the subconscious.

  Ray Dalio

  Real, Creativity, Giving

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• For me, choosing happiness has to be something that's conscious, a choice, something I act on. And I think this is something really difficult in a society where there's this falsehood that there's sunshine everywhere and all you have to do is hook yourself up to it. We're Combodians such an optimistic culture, but sometimes we have to work a lot harder to find it.

  Loung Ung

  Optimistic, Sunshine, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Those whose spiritual awareness has been awakened never make a false move. They don't have to avoid evil. They are so replete with love that whatever they do is a good action. They are fully conscious that they are not the doer of their actions, but only servants of God.

  Ramakrishna

  Love, Spiritual, Moving

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• I am fully and intensely aware that plants are conscious of love and respond to it as they do to nothing else.

  Celia Thaxter

  Love, Desire, Awareness

  Celia Thaxter (2008). “An Island Garden”, p.5, Applewood Books

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• All things are created twice. There is a mental (first) creation, and a physical (second) creation. The physical creation follows the mental, just as a building follows a blueprint. If you don't make a conscious effort to visualize who you are and what you want in life, then you empower other people and circumstances to shape you and your life by default.

  Stephen Covey

  Dream, People, Empowering

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