Consciousness Quotes - Page 16

• Imagination is the primary gift of human consciousness.

  Ken Robinson

  Imagination, Humans, Primaries

  Ken Robinson (2011). “Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative”, p.102, John Wiley & Sons

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• Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects of our own self. Our consciousness being broadened and enriched, we shall judge ourselves more correctly.

  Ella Maillart

  Travel, Self, Giving

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• Mindfulness is Buddha's word for meditation. By mindfulness he means: you should always remain alert, watchful. You should always remain present. Not a single thing should be done in a sort of sleepy state of mind. You should not move like a somnambulist, you should move with a sharp consciousness.

  Rajneesh

  Buddhist, Moving, Mean

  Osho, Rajneesh (Bhagwan Shree), Yoga Rabiya (Ma.), Ananda Vandana (Ma.), Prem Pankaja (Ma.) (1978). “The Discipline of Transcendence: Discourses on the Forty-two Sutras of Buddha”

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• Nothing that can be known has existence in itself. It depends on a knower. The knower is consciousness.

  Jean Klein

  Awareness, Existence, Depends

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• One thing that blocks flow is self-consciousness.

  Ariel Gore

  Block, Self, Flow

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• All great work artistic, poetic, intellectual or spiritual is produced at those moments when creators forget themselves altogether and are free from self-consciousness.

  Walpola Rahula

  Spiritual, Self, Intellectual

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• A witnessing consciousness lives in life but with tremendous non-attachment, with great non-possessiveness; it possesses nothing. It lives totally, it lives passionately, but still knowing that I don't possess anything.

  Rajneesh

  Attachment, Knowing, Possessiveness

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• Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.

  Rollo May

  Creative, Intensity, Ecstasy

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.48, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Remember that your perception of the world is a reflection of your state of consciousness. You are not separate from it, and there is no objective world out there. Every moment,
  your consciousness creates the world that you inhabit.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Reflection, Perception, World

  Eckhart Tolle (2004). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.198, New World Library

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• Consciousness is a singular for which there is no plural.

  Erwin Schrodinger

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• Do not think of yourself as the body, but as the joyous consciousness and immortal life behind it.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Thinking, Body, Immortal Life

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• Art awakens a sense of real by establishing an intimate relationship between our inner being and the universe at large, bringing us a consciousness of deep joy.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Art, Real, Intimate Relationships

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• There is a God part in you. The consciousness. The pure Self. Learn to listen the voice of that Power.

  Amit Ray

  Self, Voice, Pure

  Amit Ray (2012). “Nonviolence: The Transforming Power”, p.31, INNER LIGHT PUBLISHERS

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• When artists give form to revelation, their art can advance, deepen and potentially transform the consciousness of their community.

  Alex Grey

  Art, Giving, Community

  Alex Grey (2017). “The Mission of Art”, p.21, Shambhala Publications

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• When you wake up to the Divine Consciousness within you and your divine identity, you wake up simultaneously to the Divine Consciousness appearing as all other beings. And this is not poetry and this is not a feeling, this is a direct experience of the divine light living in and as all other beings. And until this realization is firm in you, you do not know who or where you are.

  Andrew Harvey

  Light, Feelings, Identity

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• There is one unity, unified wholeness, total natural law, in the transcendental unified consciousness.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Law, Unity, Transcendental

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• Behaviour arises from the level of one's consciousness.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Behaviour, Levels, Arise

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• Silence is helpful, but you don't need it in order to find stillness. Even when there is noise, you can be aware of the stillness underneath the noise, of the space in which the noise arises. That is the inner space of pure awareness, consciousness itself.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Order, Space, Silence

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.6, New World Library

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• Thoughts are just moving through consciousness. They have no power. Nothing has reality until you reach it, grab it, and somehow impregnate it with the power of belief.

  Adyashanti

  Moving, Reality, Belief

  Adyashanti (2009). “Emptiness Dancing: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.70, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Moods are in the mind and do not matter. Go within, go beyond. Cease being fascinated by the content of your consciousness. When you reach the deep layers of your true being, you will find that the mind's surface-play affects you very little.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Play, Mind, Littles

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• You are not the body. You are the immensity and infinity of consciousness.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Body, Infinity, Immensity

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• Consciousness is an attribute while awareness is not; one can be aware of being conscious, but not conscious of awareness. God is the totality of consciousness, but awareness is beyond all--being as well as not-being.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Awareness, Attributes, Wells

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• That's what I call meditation. You simply stand aloof and just see the mind disappearing, like a cloud on a faraway horizon, leaving the sky clean and pure. And in that state arises your consciousness in its full glory, in its full celebration.

  Rajneesh

  Clouds, Sky, Meditation

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• The ultimate essence of yoga is the contact and the union between the individual consciousness and the divine consciousness.

  Raphael

  Yoga, Essence, Unions

  Raphael (1996). “Essence and Purpose of Yoga: The Initiatory Pathways to the Transcendent”, Element Books Limited

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• Every truth ever discovered, each new spiritual light that will ever burn bright has already been seeded in our consciousness.

  Guy Finley

  Spiritual, Light, Spiritual Light

  "The Story Of The Seeker" by Guy Finley, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 11, 2011.

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