Consciousness Quotes - Page 21

• As you meditate, over time your consciousness becomes awake within itself. The silent witness within saturates and illuminates the mind so that it does not look to the past or the future for fulfillment. It experiences peace and freedom within itself in every moment.

  Deepak Chopra

  Past, Mind, Doe

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• The brain does not create consciousness, but conciousness created the brain, the most complex physical form on earth, for its expression.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Expression, Brain

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• Higher thought forms trump lower ones. In the presence of a high frequency of human consciousness, all lower thought forms ultimately drop of their own dead weight.

  Marianne Williamson

  Weight, Form, Trump

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• If I use the word consciousness, in our lab, in our institute, what we mean is the special quality of mind, the special features that exist in the mind, that permit us to know, for example, that we, ourselves, exist, and that things exist around us.

  Antonio Damasio

  Mean, Mind, Special

  Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. August 10, 2010.

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• Mental states of every kind, - sensations, feelings, ideas, - which were at one time present in consciousness and then have disappeared from it, have not with their disappearance absolutely ceased to exist.

  Hermann Ebbinghaus

  Philosophy, Ideas, Medicine

  Hermann Ebbinghaus (1913). “Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology”

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• Be an artist of consciousness. Your picture of reality is your most important creation. Make it powerfully profoundly beautiful.

  Alex Grey

  Beautiful, Powerful, Artist

  FaceBook post by Alex Grey from Mar 17, 2014

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• Freedom lies beyond the field of consciousness.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Lying, Awakening

  "Striking Thoughts". Book by Bruce Lee, p. 9, 2000.

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• Evil is an extreme manifestation of human unconsciousness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Love, Evil, Manifestation

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• Enlightenment is not the process of learning 'new' information. It is the process of 'reminding' ourselves that the answers are already 'within our consciousness'. All knowledge, all energy, all information is within us, not outside of us. it always has been and always will be.

  Eric Allen

  Positive Thinking, Being Positive, Enlightenment

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• There, at the centre, are the artists who really form the consciousness of their time; they respond deeply, intuitively to what is happening, what has happened, and what will happen, and their response is expressed in metaphor, in image and in fable.

  John Wain

  Artist, Theatre, Fables

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• Man can become like God and acquire control over the whole universe if he multiplies infinitely his centre of self-consciousness.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Self, Centre

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Powers of The Mind”, p.19, editionNEXT.com

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• The picture must all come out of the artist's inside, awareness of forms and figures... It is more than memory. It is the image as it lives in the consciousness, alive like a vision, but unknown.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Art, Vision, Alive

  "The Sayings of D. H. Lawrence".

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• Art is a form of consciousness.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Form, Art Is

  Susan Sontag (2012). “As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980”, p.42, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• Everything that exalts and expands consciousness is good, while that which depresses and diminishes it is evil.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Depressing, Evil, Diminish

  Miguel de Unamuno (2012). “Tragic Sense of Life”, p.291, Courier Corporation

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• You don't meditate to experiment with altered states of consciousness or whatever else. You meditate only to perceive by yourself that everything is within us, every atom of the universe, and that we already possess everything we would wish to find outside of ourselves.

  Daniel Odier

  Wish, Atoms, Altered States Of Consciousness

  Daniel Odier (1997). “Tantric Quest: An Encounter with Absolute Love”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• In this state of inner connectedness, you are much more alert, more awake than in the mind-identified state. You are fully present. It also raises the vibrational frequency of the energy field that give life to the physical body.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Giving, Mind, Energy

  Eckhart Tolle (2001). “Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now”, p.20, New World Library

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• You do your best work when you're not conscious of yourself.

  Peter Matthiessen

  Self Conscious, Best Work, Conscious

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• When it comes to the fundamental issues that humanity faces, I think that solutions involve shifting consciousness towards cooperation.

  Jeremy Gilley

  Thinking, Issues, Humanity

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• If we don't change, if the egoic consciousness continues, I don't believe that humanity as a species can survive, or at least human civilization can survive, for another hundred years.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Believe, Years, Civilization

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• We have to get to the Self beyond its physical and mental instrumentalities to realize we are not fragile mortal beings; there is an unbroken link between ourselves and the Beloved Mother of the Universe, the Divine Consciousness flowing through and permeating Infinity.

  Daya Mata

  Mother, Self, Soul

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• The underlying purpose of all art is to create patterns of imagery which somehow convey a sense of life set in a framework of order ... all great art ... harmonises consciousness with the ego-transcending Self.

  Christopher Booker

  Art, Self, Order

  Christopher Booker (2004). “The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories”, p.552, A&C Black

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• With the egoic consciousness having become so dysfunctional, and now having at our disposal all these enormous technologies and scientific advances, if nothing changes the ego will use those things - as it already has been doing - and will amplify the technology that we now have. The scientific advances, to a large extent, will be used in the service of the ego, and they will become more and more destructive.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Technology, Ego, Use

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• Consciousness: That annoying time between naps

  Steven Wright

  Sleep, Naps, Annoying

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• And when the stream Which overflowed the soul was passed away, A consciousness remained that it had left Deposited upon the silent shore Of memory images and precious thoughts That shall not die, and cannot be destroyed.

  William Wordsworth

  Memories, Soul, Passed Away

  William Wordsworth (1854). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth”, p.615

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• Some people are called upon to do great things externally in this world by creating some new structure that reflects their awakening consciousness. Other people are not called to go out into the world and create great big things externally. Their purpose is to let consciousness flow into whatever they do - to do everything in a sacred manner.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Creating, People, Purpose

  Source: jhaines6.wordpress.com

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