Consciousness Quotes - Page 12

• Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.

  Max Planck

  Ego, Humans, Human Consciousness

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• If there is a God, he is within. You don't ask God to give you things, you depend on God for your inner theme.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, If There Is A God, Giving

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• Be aware of your breathing. Notice how this takes attention away from your thinking and creates space.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Thinking, Breathing, Space

  Twitter post from Sep 24, 2009

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• The improvement of life was only accomplished to the extent to which it was based on a change of consciousness, that is, to the extent to which the law of violence was replaced in men's consciousness by the law of love.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Law, Culture

  Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1951). “The kingdom of God: and peace essays”

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• The practice of discernment is part of higher consciousness. Discernment is not just a step up from judgment. In life's curriculum, it is the opposite of judgment. Through judgment a man reveals what he needs to confront and learn. Through discernment, one reveals what he has mastered.

  Glenda Green

  Integrity, Men, Opposites

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• Although we think of them as extraordinary, miracles also streak across our consciousness every day. We can choose to notice or ignore them, unaware that our destinies may hang in the balance. Tune into the presence of miracles, and in an instant, life can be transformed into a dazzling experience, more wondrous and exciting than we could even imagine. Ignore it, and an opportunity is gone forever.

  Deepak Chopra

  Opportunity, Destiny, Thinking

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• 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.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Space, Ability To Love, Embrace

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• A person experiences life as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. Our task must be to free ourselves from this self-imposed prison, and through compassion, to find the reality of Oneness.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Yoga

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• Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.

  Henry James

  Kindness, Air, Imperfection

  "The Art of Fiction" (1884)

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• But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.

  Audre Lorde

  Motivational, Sleep, Feminist

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• There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Motivational, Believe, Knowing

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

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Destiny, Government, Class

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• And we're seeing a higher level of consciousness and many more opportunities for people to challenge their present ways of thinking and move into a grander and larger experience of who they really are.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  God, Moving, Opportunity

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• A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Men, Thinking, Views

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1958). “Philosophical Investigations”

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• Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution.

  Stanislav Grof

  Positive, Healing, Personality

  Stanislav Grof (2000). “Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research”, p.267, SUNY Press

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• Changing mass consciousness is an individual responsibility.

  Dennis Weaver

  Inspirational, Responsibility, Awareness

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• Hell is a place, a time, a consciousness, in which there is no love.

  Richard Bach

  Inspiration, Hell, No Love

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• The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Lying, Real, Firsts

  Joseph Brodsky (2011). “Less Than One: Selected Essays”, p.13, Penguin UK

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• Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.

  Balthus

  Struggle, Self, Criticism

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• In truth, ideology has very little to do with 'consciousness', even supposing this term to have an unambiguous meaning. It is profoundly unconscious, even when it presents itself in a reflected form.

  Louis Althusser

  Littles, Ideology, Unconscious

  "For Marx".

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• Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.

  Mary Esther Harding

  Inspirational, Inspirational Life, Conflict

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• You need a vanguard organization in order to overcome the dangerous potential brought about by the uneven development of class militancy and class consciousness.

  Ernest Mandel

  Order, Class, Organization

  Ernest Mandel (1994). “Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays”, Humanities Press Intl

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• If you didn’t have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn’t be morality but with consciousness that you have it.

  Roger Penrose

  Motherhood, World, Morality

  "Secrets of the Old One". "Groks Science" with Frank Ling, grokscience.wordpress.com. January 18, 2009.

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• We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  World, Way, Poet

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• A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.

  Ernest Dimnet

  Book, Landscape, States

  "The Art of Thinking". Book by Ernest Dimnet, p. 122, 1928.

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