Consciousness Quotes - Page 22

• The Republican consciousness has no integrity and it falls apart once you check it out. If you're a Christian, why would you want to fry this dude?

  Ken Kesey

  Christian, Integrity, Fall

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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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• 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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• Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Agility, Irony, Chaos

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• Know that this universe is nothing but a dream bluff of nature to test your consciousness of immortality.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Dream, Spiritual, Tests

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• If we had the consciousness of a cat or a dog, we would have it in us to become perfect Zen masters. We could gnaw on a bone, take a nap, play with a spider until we killed it, get our litter just right, and be innocently and serenely present. Meaning would mean nothing to us, nor would we need it to mean anything. We would be free, and we would be spared. But, we are human beings, and we posses that odd duck – human consciousness.

  Eric Maisel

  Dog, Mean, Cat

  Eric Maisel, PhD (2012). “The Van Gogh Blues: The Creative Person s Path Through Depression”, p.65, New World Library

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• Humanity starts at the level of the human consciousness and makes its deliberate way to the summit, which is God Consciousness.

  Harold Klemp

  Humanity, Levels, Way

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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 Wheelis

  Alternatives, May, Awareness

  Allen Wheelis (1970). “The desert”

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• The "kingdom of heaven" to which he referred was the state of God-consciousness, not the beautiful astral heavens that most people visualize, where virtuous souls go after death.

  Goswami Kriyananda

  Beautiful, People, Heaven

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• Enlightenment is like everyday consciousness but two inches above the ground.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Two, Everyday, Enlightenment

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• Creativity is the state of consciousness in which you enter into the treasury of your innermost being and bring the beauty into manifestation.

  Torkom Saraydarian

  Creativity, States, Manifestation

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• If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a power that twisting in dark passions produced everything great or inconsequential; if an unfathomable, insatiable emptiness lay hid beneath everything, what would life be but despair?

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Passion, Dark, Men

  Soren Kierkegaard (2005). “Fear and Trembling”, p.18, Penguin UK

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• You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you, and allowing that goodness to emerge. But it can only emerge if something fundamental changes in your state of consciousness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Trying, Fundamentals, Goodness

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.23, Penguin

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• If increased meta-knowledge is not counter-balanced by a corresponding growth in consciousness then the likelihood of psycho-spiritual dysfunction is great.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Dysfunction, Growth

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• The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest.

  Bruce Lee

  Real, Thought Provoking, Doe

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.376, Tuttle Publishing

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• The consciousness that says 'I am' is not the consciousness that thinks.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Thinking

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• We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Past, Parent, Advice

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• Self-consciousness kills communication.

  Rick Steves

  Communication, Self, Self Consciousness

  Rick Steves (2015). “Rick Steves Europe Through the Back Door 2016: The Travel Skills Handbook”, p.523, Avalon Travel

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• All forms of art are consciousness expanders, and I am convinced that they will take us further, and more consciously, than drugs.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Art, Drug, Form

  Twitter post from Nov 13, 2012

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• The challenge is about taking things that are infinitely complex and making them simpler and more understandable.

  Robert Greenberg

  Design, Challenges, Complexes

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• That higher awakening is called God-consciousness. In that condition, you will see that all the objects of the world are your own universal self.

  Krishnananda Saraswati

  Self, World, Awakening

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• On with the dance, let the joy be unconfined.

  Mark Twain

  Joy

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• There is only one I actually. That I is Consciousness. When you follow the personal I to the source, it turns into the universal I, which is Consciousness. Begin to catch yourself. begin to realize your divine nature. You do this by keeping quiet. The fastest way to realization is to keep quiet.

  Robert Adams

  Realization, Way, Keeping Quiet

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• Enthusiasm is a heightened state of consciousness, and it's one of the best feelings there is to feel.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Feelings, Enthusiasm, States

  FaceBook post by Danielle LaPorte from Mar 23, 2012

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• Happiness happens when your consciousness is not dominated by addictions and demands - and you experience life as a parade of preferences.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Wise, Addiction, Demand

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