Conscious Quotes - Page 5

• The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

  Brian Tracy

  Motivational, Inspiring, Fear

  Twitter post from Dec 26, 2014

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• My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.

  Karl Kraus

  Literature, Consciousness, Psychologist

  Thomas Stephen Szasz, Karl Kraus (1990). “Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry”, p.106, Syracuse University Press

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• We appear to be programmed with the idea that there are 'things' outside of our self, and some are conscious, and some are not.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Self, Ideas, Programming

  "Are We Spiritual Machines?". Live Chat, www.kurzweilai.net. July 24, 2002.

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• Conscious business.. business that is conscious of inner and outer worlds.. would therefore be business that takes into account body, mind, and spirit in self, culture, and nature. Put differently, conscious business would be mindful of the way that the spectrum of consciousness operates in the Big Three worlds of self and culture and nature.

  Ken Wilber

  God, Business, Self

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• I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Drug, Consciousness, Unnecessary

  FaceBook post by Fran Lebowitz from May 29, 2011

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• I was a savage for so many years of my life. There was some seed of determination in me that I was not conscious of. I was mostly consciously getting into trouble and drunk.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Determination, Years, Drunk

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• Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

  Karl Marx

  Freedom, Philosophical, Consciousness

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• Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.

  Alan Moore

  Firsts, Language, Consciousness

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• It's great to be in a film that's able to have people really want to become socially conscious, to walk out of the theatre and want to do something.

  Don Cheadle

  People, Theatre, Want

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  Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Beauty

  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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• Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.

  Voltaire

  Yoga, Thinking, Meditation Practice

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  A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his 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. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Beauty, Spiritual

  Letter of 1950, as quoted in "The New York Times", March 29, 1972.

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• Wisdom, character, and consciousness conquer everything.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Character

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• Peace is a conscious choice.

  John Denver

  Peace, Choices, Environmentalism

  Thomas F. Crum, John Denver (1988). “The magic of conflict: turning a life of work into a work of art”, Touchstone Books

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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, Consciousness

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

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• Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Wise, Dream

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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• I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become.

  Jean Toomer

  Might, Poetic, Poet

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• It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.

  Samuel Butler

  Spring, Action, Consciousness

  Samuel Butler (2016). “The Way of All Flesh”, p.25, Samuel Butler

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• To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present.

  Robert Foster Bennett

  Mean, Past, Choices

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• The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Literature, Forget, Consciousness

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation”, p.51, Cambridge University Press

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• Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human

  Edward Bond

  Animal, Literature, Humans

  Edward Bond (1998). “Bond Plays: 6: The War Plays; Choruses from After the Assassinations”, Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

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• Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he receives his inspiration from a source higher than himself.

  John Philip Sousa

  Believe, Inspiration, Source

  John Philip Sousa (2010). “Six marches”, p.46, A-R Editions, Inc.

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• Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.

  Salman Rushdie

  Book, Writing, Creation

  Salman Rushdie (1990). “In good faith”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness.

  Henry Miller

  Power, Evil, Analysis

  Henry Miller (1961). “The Cosmological Eye”, p.191, New Directions Publishing

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• While we're working, we must be conscious of what we're doing.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Leica, Photographer

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