Consciousness Quotes - Page 9

• We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Nature

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.15, St. Martin's Press

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• We are on the planet to... wrap our consciousness around the divine treasure within us.

  Michael Beckwith

  God, Treasure, Spirituality

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• Consciousness is the greatest movie-maker in the whole world.

  Mooji

  Greatest Movie, World, Awareness

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• The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.

  Sigmund Freud

  Motivational, Achievement, Complicated

  Sigmund Freud (2010). “The Interpretation of Dreams”, p.590, Basic Books

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• The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.

  Mark Hopkins

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Mark Hopkins (1852). “Receiving and Giving: A Baccalaureate Sermon, Delivered at Williamstown , Ms. August 15, 1852. Published by Request of the Class”, p.20

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• ...The unconscious has no time. There is no trouble about time in the unconscious. Part of our psyche is not in time and not in space. They are only an illusion, time and space, and so in a certain part of our psyche time does not exist at all.

  Carl Jung

  Space, Doe, Trouble

  Carl Gustav Jung (1976). “The Collected works”

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• The past is no more and the future is not yet. The only right person is one who lives moment to moment, whose arrow is directed to the moment, who is always here and now; wherever he is, his whole consciousness, his whole being, is involved in the reality of here and in the reality of now.

  Rajneesh

  Past, Reality, Eyelashes

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• Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.

  William Ralph Inge

  Connections, Phases, Habit

  William Ralph Inge (1932). “More Lay Thoughts of a Dean”

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• I think that we are starting to get much more conscious about, you know, the importance of the spiritual path, and we are fulfilling it by paying attention to ourselves.

  Paulo Coelho

  Spiritual, Thinking, Attention

  "My dream was, and still is, to be a writer: Paulo Coelho". Interview with Tanu Talwar, zeenews.india.com. July 6, 2009.

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• If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and the feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness.

  Mary Esther Harding

  Maturity, Masculine And Feminine, Personality

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• Of Consciousness, her awful Mate. The Soul cannot be rid - as easy the secreting her behind the Eyes of God.

  Emily Dickinson

  Eye, Soul, Awful

  c.1864 Complete Poems, no.894 (first published 1945).

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• Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

  Iris Murdoch

  Happiness, Happy, Gratitude

  "The Nice And The Good".

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• The "name" of the Most Holy Trinity is in a certain way impressed upon everything that exists, because everything that exists, down to the least particle, is a being in relation, and thus God-relation shines forth, ultimately creative Love shines forth. All comes from love, tends toward love, and is moved by love, naturally, according to different grades of consciousness and freedom... The strongest proof that we are made in the image of the Trinity is this: only love makes us happy, because we live in relation, and we live to love and be loved.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Inspiration, Names

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• Either death is a state of nothingness and utter consciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another. Now if death be of such a nature, I say that to die is to gain; for eternity is then only a single night.

  Plato

  Death, Night, Men

  Plato (1947). “The Trial and Death of Socrates: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito and Phaedo”, p.44, Lulu.com

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• It is the inner life that is to spark the change in consciousness that will permit us to advance

  Wayne Teasdale

  God, Sparks, Spirituality

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• Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time.

  Steven Biko

  Positive, Attitude, Long

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• Life is consciousness.

  Emmet Fox

  Life Is

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• Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas.

  James Mark Baldwin

  Ideas, Feelings, Balance

  James Mark Baldwin (1913). “History of psychology”

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• The journey of consciousness, of mysticism, is to come to know yourself and your own motivations.

  Caroline Myss

  Motivation, Journey, Know Yourself

  Twitter post from Oct 02, 2013

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• When you look in the mirror, what do you see? Do you see the real you, or what you have been conditioned to believe is you? The two are so, so different. One is an infinite consciousness capable of being and creating whatever it chooses, the other is an illusion imprisoned by its own perceived and programmed limitations.

  David Icke

  Real, Believe, Two

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• The goal should not be to make money or acquire things, but to achieve the consciousness through which the substance will flow forth when and as you need it.

  Eric Butterworth

  Goal, Energy, Needs

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• When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.

  Joseph Campbell

  Hero, Thinking, Self

  Joseph Campbell, Bill D. Moyers (1988). “The Power of Myth”, Harmony

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• The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist.

  William James

  Education, World, Whole

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.497, Booklassic

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• The new formula in physics describes humans as paradoxical beings who have two complementary aspects: They can show properties of Newtonian objects and also infinite fields of consciousness.

  Stanislav Grof

  Two, Fields, Physics

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• There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

  Carl Jung

  Pain, Collective Unconscious, Birth

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Scott Montague Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1954). “The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: The development of personality”

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