Consciousness Quotes - Page 14

• If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.

  Bruce Lee

  Moving, Echoes, Mirrors

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.13, Tuttle Publishing

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• As a spirit having a human experience, you can choose to not merely exist but to be fully conscious and aware of living in a limited world. When you take a conscious part in life and its multitudes of choices, you won't let life happen to you - you will make life happen for you.

  James Van Praagh

  Choices, World, Spirit

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• If her past were your past, her pain your pain, her level of consciousness your level of consciousness, you would think and act exactly as she does. With this realization comes forgiveness, compassion and peace.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Pain, Past

  Eckhart Tolle (2003). “Stillness Speaks”, p.92, New World Library

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• It's hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness.

  Carl Sagan

  Vastness, Creatures, Hard

  Carl Sagan (1997). “Contact”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• Like too much alcohol,self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves - mental and material, controlling and controlled, reflective and spontaneous. Thus instead of suffering we suffer about suffering, and suffer about suffering about suffering.

  Alan Watts

  Self, Two, Alcohol

  Alan W. Watts, Daniel Pinchbeck (2013). “The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness”, p.76, New World Library

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• There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own Soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

  Carl Jung

  Wisdom, Pain, Light

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• Knowledge exists in two forms - lifeless, stored in books, and alive, in the consciousness of men. The second form of existence is after all the essential one; the first, indispensable as it may be, occupies only an inferior position.

  Albert Einstein

  Book, Men, Two

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.439, Princeton University Press

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• What is art? (...) Like a declaration of love: the consciousness of our dependence on each other. A confession. An unconscious act that none the less reflects the true meaning of life—love and sacrifice.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Art, Love Life, Sacrifice

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• Whether consciousness is implanted in us by something divine, or whether it is created by the efforts of our brains, the end result is the same. We are.

  Neal Shusterman

  Effort, Brain, Divine

  Neal Shusterman (2012). “Unwholly”, p.162, Simon and Schuster

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• Never forget that the universe is a single living organism possessed of one substance and one soul, holding all things suspended in a single consciousness and creating all things with a single purpose that they might work together spinning and weaving and knotting whatever comes to pass.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Creating, Soul, Together

  Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• There seems to be no unexpressed self in animals, as if they are as fully themselves in flesh as possible, with no lag of consciousness to fill up, while we keep trying to grow into something else.

  Jane Roberts

  Animal, Self, Trying

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• The best indicator of your level of consciousness is how you deal with life's challenges when they come. Through those challenges, an already unconscious person tends to become more deeply unconscious, and a conscious person more intensely conscious. You can use a challenge to awaken you, or you can allow it to pull you into even deeper sleep. The dream of ordinary unconsciousness then turns into a nightmare.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Dream, Sleep, Challenges

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.74, New World Library

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• Who among us has not dreamt, in moments of ambition, of the miracle of a poetic prose, musical without rhythm and rhyme, supple and staccato enough to adapt to the lyrical stirrings of the soul, the undulations of dreams, and sudden leaps of consciousness.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Dream, Ambition, Miracle

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• The joy of Being, which is the only true happiness, cannot come to you through any form, possession, achievement, person, or event - through anything that happens. That joy cannot come to you - ever. It emanates from the formless dimension within you, from consciousness itself and thus is one with who you are.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Achievement, Joy

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.161, Penguin

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• Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.

  Walter Lippmann

  Men, Soul, Purpose

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• Many people dedicate their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like, rather than actualizing themselves. This difference between self-actualization and self-image actualization is very important. Most people live only for their image

  Bruce Lee

  Philosophical, Self, Differences

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• It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.

  Max Frisch

  Realizing, Moments, Non Existence

  Max Frisch (1977). “Sketchbook 1946-1949”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• We do not build or create a spiritual consciousness; we merely get rid of all that obscures our pure vision

  Roy Davis

  Spiritual, Vision, Pure

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• In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Loathing, Existentialism

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “The Birth of Tragedy”, p.65, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it.

  H. G. Wells

  Time, Moving, Space

  H. G. Wells “The Time Machine”, Games by CC

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• I have no sense of nationalism, only a cosmic consciousness of belonging to the human family.

  Rosika Schwimmer

  Relationship, Patriotism, Cosmic

  Rosika Schwimmer “Rosika Schwimmer, Appelant Vs. United States of America, Appellee”

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• I think that the consciousness of passion makes you act very differently.

  Pedro Almodovar

  Passion, Thinking

  Interview with Jose Arroyo, www.theguardian.com. July 31, 2002.

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• God must become an activity in our consciousness.

  Joel S. Goldsmith

  God, Becoming, Activity

  Joel S. Goldsmith (2013). “Practicing the Presence”, p.31, BookBaby

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• The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.

  Max Eastman

  Art, Writing, Defining

  Max Eastman (1951). “Enjoyment of Poetry with Anthology”

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• The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Different, Humans, Species

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