Conscious famous quotes
05-25-2025
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A spiritual master who is one hundred percent Krishna conscious is the bona fide spiritual master.
-- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada -
However, I must stress that my own interest is immediate and in the picture. What I am conscious of and what I feel is the picture I am making, the relation of that picture to others I have made and, more generally, its relation to others I have experienced.
-- Aaron Siskind -
I find still photographs make me quite self-conscious,
-- Aidan Gillen -
When we are enjoying the conscious presence of God, we are fulfilling the tenets of our salvation.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
Do you have any control over being conscious? Do you know how you will?
-- Alan Watts -
A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.
-- Albert Camus -
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
-- Aldous Huxley -
The gain isn't counted to the recluse and inactive that, having nothing to measure themselves by and never being tested by failure, they simmer and soak perpetually in conscious complacency.
-- Alice James -
I can be so involved that I am no longer conscious of my needs or even of any pains. But there also have been many times when I felt the exhaustion - when it was physically painful, but I just couldn't stop.
-- Alton Tobey -
I do think that at least when we're thinking about ourselves as living, conscious, human beings we are dynamic wholes.
-- Alva Noe -
The more conscious I am of the work God has yet to do in me, the less critical I am about what he has yet to do in you
-- Andy Stanley -
When I was very young, I used to share much of what I wrote with my family, but as I got older and more self-conscious, it became a much more private process.
-- Anita Desai -
Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.
-- Anne Lamott -
Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
-- Anton Chekhov -
A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence.
-- Aristotle -
To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.
-- Aristotle -
People in Sweden are very conscious of what people are saying about you.
-- Avicii -
In the beginning, I was searching for myself in my music. My music was for me. I didn't have the mental room to be conscious of the listener; I wrote to save myself.
-- Ayumi Hamasaki -
I cannot even remember a time before being conscious of James Bond.
-- Barbara Broccoli -
You can experience consciousness now by experiencing the fact that you exist.
-- Barry Long -
You're either sexy or you're not. I'm very self-conscious about my physiognomy.
-- Bobby Darin -
Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.
-- Brian Tracy -
Take complete control over the messages you allow into your conscious mind.
-- Brian Tracy -
My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.
-- Carl Andre -
Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist.
-- Carl Andre -
When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.
-- Carl Jung -
Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something.
-- Carl Jung -
What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.
-- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach -
The writer is by nature a dreamer - a conscious dreamer.
-- Carson McCullers -
I am fully and intensely aware that plants are conscious of love and respond to it as they do to nothing else.
-- Celia Thaxter -
The more holy a man becomes, the more conscious he is of unholiness.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
Unless it's a specific accent, or something about physicality you have to change, I am generally not such a conscious actor.
-- Christina Ricci -
Dignity is like a perfume; those who use it are scarcely conscious of it.
-- Christina, Queen of Sweden -
Conscious evolution begins as we take responsibility for clearing our own obstructions.
-- Dan Millman -
There's a conscious decision to everything I do.
-- Daniel Craig -
Part of being a conscious human being, is having an intention. And if you put an intention into whatever you do, it’s definitely going to be more satisfying in the end
-- Daphne Guinness -
There's certainly nothing original about the observation that conscious experience poses a hard problem.
-- David Chalmers -
It is unimaginably hard to do this, to stay conscious and alive, day in and day out,
-- David Foster -
I have so little control over the act of writing that it's all I can do to remain conscious.
-- David Rakoff -
I'm always conscious of the fact that I am part of a profession that is 80% permanently unemployed. So, to be working in any sense is to be privileged.
-- Derek Jacobi -
We take spiritual initiation when we become conscious of the Divine within us, and thereby contact the Divine without us.
-- Dion Fortune -
I was wandering around as usual, in my unpleasantly populated sub-conscious...
-- Dodie Smith -
Once he became a series character, I made the conscious choice that he would never act like a series character, never wink at the reader, never pull his punches. Better for him, better for me.
-- Donald E. Westlake -
This is the purpose of theology. By it my life becomes clearer and more conscious.
-- Dorothee Solle -
I consciously started to live simply when I started to become conscious.
-- Duane Elgin -
But there's a shift happening in humanity, a shift in consciousness, happening now because it has to happen now.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
When you are fully conscious, drama does not come into your life anymore.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
You can not have an argument with a fully conscious person.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
Become intensely conscious of the present moment.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
It just is nothing foreign to consciousness at all that could present itself to consciousness through the mediation of phenomena different from the liking itself; to like is intrinsically to be conscious.
-- Edmund Husserl -
Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human
-- Edward Bond -
The ultimate goal of Jungian psychotherapy is to make the symbolic process conscious
-- Edward F Edinger -
I watch what I eat obviously. I'm not a regular gym-goer but I'm conscious of it.
-- Elisha Cuthbert -
... in general, the Anglo-Irish do not make good dancers; they are too spritely and conscious; they are incapable of one kind of trance or of being seemingly impersonal. And, for the formal, pure dance they lack the formality: about their stylishness (for they have stylishness) there is something impromptu, slightly disorderly.
-- Elizabeth Bowen -
I think as women and men become more conscious, the terms "woman/man" begin to lose meaning.
-- Elizabeth Lesser -
The longer I live the more conscious I am of human frailty, and of the constant, overwhelming need we all have of God’s grace.
-- Elizabeth Prentiss -
I think most of us become self-critical as soon as we become self-conscious.
-- Ellen Goodman -
On the contrary, history generally confirms that the more conscious and the better you are organized in vanguard organizations, the more constructively you operate in the mass organizations of the working class.
-- Ernest Mandel -
It's when I am fully conscious that I ask questions.
-- Eugene Ionesco -
To become conscious of what is horrifying and to laugh at it is to become master of that which is horrifying
-- Eugene Ionesco -
Perhaps, if we don't always have a conscious conscience, we have a subliminal one, from which the memory of past wrongs is not so easily erased.
-- Eva Hoffman -
She wanted to exist only as a conscious flower, prolonging and preserving herself
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald -
I am conscious of having served England as I served my own country.
-- Ferdinand Foch -
The greatest unsolved mysteries are the mysteries of our existence as conscious beings in a small corner of a vast universe.
-- Freeman Dyson -
What I do is more than just the clothes. It's getting out whatever is inside that's screaming the loudest. I wouldn't call it therapeutic. It's not that conscious.
-- Gareth Pugh -
Every intention sets energy into motion Whether you are conscious of it or not.
-- Gary Zukav -
You seem to think that the only genuine existence evil can have is conscious existence - that no one is evil unless he admits it to himself. I disagree.
-- Gene Wolfe -
There are natures in which, if they love us, we are conscious of having a sort of baptism and consecration.
-- George Eliot -
A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
-- Gertrude Stein -
Man is the universe becoming conscious of itself.
-- Greg Iles -
No organism can afford to be conscious of matters with which it could deal at unconscious levels.
-- Gregory Bateson -
The conscious life of the mind is of small importance in comparison with its unconscious life.
-- Gustave Le Bon -
The only mistake that we can make as human beings is to be asleep, unaware of ourselves.
-- Guy Finley -
I don't feel I'm making a conscious effort to go more commercial.
-- Guy Pearce -
It's not just a question of numbers. There will be more women (in parliament) who are conscious of women's rights ... There will also be women who are not committed to equality.
-- Hanan Ashrawi -
Nothing erases unpleasant thoughts more effectively than conscious concentration on pleasant ones.
-- Hans Selye -
Conscious communication is called Turiya-when you are totally effective, totally understood and totally truthful.
-- Harbhajan Singh Yogi -
Yet, the Universe is real enough to the conscious beings in it, which are as unreal as it is itself.
-- Helena -
The artist beholds in nature more than she herself Nature is conscious of.
-- Henry James -
I am conscious about myself and everything, and then suddenly, or slowly, my conscious fades out. Switches off. And it's not existing, and that's a marvelous feeling. That from existing, I am not existing. And at that moment, nothing can happen to me.
-- Ingmar Bergman -
I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.
-- J. Cole -
The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
-- James A. Baldwin -
Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science.
-- James Clerk Maxwell -
I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called.
-- James M. Cain -
... it's hard to be politically conscious and upwardly mobile at the same time.
-- Jane Wagner -
Biomimicry is … the conscious emulation of life’s genius.
-- Janine Benyus -
I personally am not conscious of my accent.
-- Jared Diamond -
Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
-- Jean Cocteau -
I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become.
-- Jean Toomer -
Well, you can’t control what they do, but you can control how you respond to it…whether you allow it to drive you crazy, or occupy all of your thoughts, or whether you note what they’re doing, consider it, and make a conscious decision as to how much you’ll let it affect you
-- Jennifer Weiner -
At times your unconsciousness is truer than your conscious mind
-- Jenny Holzer -
Maybe some of my quest for success comes from Joan of Arc but theres no conscious part of Catholicism in my life.
-- Joan Van Ark -
Only through practice and more practice, until you can do something without conscious effort.
-- Joe Hyams -
God must become an activity in our consciousness.
-- Joel S. Goldsmith -
I was never conscious of my screenplays having any acts. It's all bullshit.
-- John Milius
