Quotes and Sayings About Consciousness
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Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness - perhaps unimaginative of me.
-- A. N. Wilson -
The ultimate Consciousness is always present everywhere. It is beyond space and time, with not before or after. It is undeniable and obvious. So what can be said about it?
-- Abhinavagupta -
Be Consciousness (Itself)- Contemplate Consciousness (Itself)- Transcend Everything in Consciousness (Itself).
-- Adi Da -
Death is utterly acceptable to consciousness and life.
-- Adi DaSource : Adi Da Samraj (2005). “Easy Death: Spiritual Wisdom on the Ultimate Transcending of Death and Everything Else”, p.3, North Atlantic Books
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Thus one should know oneself to be of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss[Sat-Chit-Ananda].
-- Adi Shankara -
You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
-- Aidan ChambersSource : "Shock tactics" by Alison Brace, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2000.
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When you have abandoned all past and future, it is as if you have come alive. You are here, mindful...the nature of all types of consciousness reveals itself.
-- Ajahn Brahm -
The history of human consciousness is marked by the battle between the old awareness, the ways of fear, and the new awareness, the ways of love.
-- Al Berto -
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While there seem to be many things to manage in the world, the most important thing to manage is your consciousness.
-- Alan Cohen -
Yoga is when you feel pure consciousness and spirit.
-- Alan Finger -
When consciousness has no thoughts in it, one can experience spirit and live in harmony with the universal forces.
-- Alan Finger -
Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.
-- Alan Moore -
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We must see that consciousness is neither an isolated soul nor the mere function of a single nervous system, but of that totality of interrelated stars and galaxies which makes a nervous system possible.
-- Alan Watts -
Thinking is learning all over again how to see, directing one's consciousness, making of every image a privileged place.
-- Albert Camus -
There is a sea of consciousness that is universal, even though we each perceive it from our own shores, an awareness and a world that we all share, that can be experienced by every living being, yet is seldom seen by any.
-- Alberto Villoldo -
Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement.
-- Aldous Huxley -
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My consciousness is without limits more than when I was 40 or 50.
-- Alejandro Jodorowsky -
Love, consciousness, and creativity are the highest refinements of the cosmic evolutionary force.
-- Alex GreySource : FaceBook post by Alex Grey from May 10, 2012
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Everybody has a high point and a lot goes into that: timing, situation, general consciousness.
-- Alex Van Halen -
Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
-- Alice Walker -
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It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!
-- Alison Bechdel -
Human consciousness becomes a terrible gift which challenges the power that gave it.
-- Alison JollySource : Alison Jolly (1999). “Lucy's Legacy: Sex and Intelligence in Human Evolution”
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Freedom is the awareness of alternatives and of the ability to choose. It is contingent upon consciousness, and so may be gained or lost, extended or diminished.
-- Allen WheelisSource : Allen Wheelis (1970). “The desert”
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Consciousness is not mind; it is the ground of all being, the ground of both matter and mind. Matter and mind are both possibilities of consciousness.
-- Amit GoswamiSource : Amit Goswami (2011). “The Quantum Doctor: A Quantum Physicist Explains the Healing Power of Integrative Medicine”, p.29, Hampton Roads Publishing
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The idea that consciousness is the ground of being is the basis of all spiritual traditions.
-- Amit GoswamiSource : Interview with Mike Schwager, www.enrichment.com.
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I had vainly been seeking a description of consciousness within science; instead, what I and others have to look for is a description of science within consciousness. We must develop a science compatible with consciousness, our primary experience.
-- Amit GoswamiSource : Amit Goswami (1995). “The Self-Aware Universe”, p.215, Penguin
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We can truly see that consciousness is operating creatively even in biology, even in the evolution of species.
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Consciousness, not matter, is the ground of all existence.
-- Amit Goswami -
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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 -
The universe and the observer exist as a pair. I cannot imagine a consistent theory of the universe that ignores consciousness.
-- Andrei Linde