Consciousness Quotes - Page 8

• When we turn the mind inwards, God manifests as the inner consciousness.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Yoga, Mind, Turns

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• Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness or pure consciousness.

  Sivananda

  Yoga, Meditation Practice, Mind

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• But there is another danger besetting your path. I mean the error of regarding your own capacities instead of your work, of putting self-consciousness in place of God.

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot

  Mean, Errors, Self

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot (Bishop of Durham) (1890). “Ordination addresses and counsels to clergy”

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• The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity.

  Steven Biko

  Country, Men, Black

  Steven Biko (1979). “Steve Biko: Black Consciousness in South Africa”, Vintage

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• The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness.

  Robert Delaunay

  Eye, Mind, Communicate

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• If the heart stops for more than two minutes, you have massive brain death. There are only two minutes between our conscious world and zero. That's how fragile our consciousness is.

  Robin Gibb

  Zero, Heart, Two

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation back to itself, and so gathers with itself.

  Martin Heidegger

  Ego, Subjectivity, Relate

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• And if I can take part in it by transforming my own consciousness, then someone else's, I'm happy to do it.

  Bill Hicks

  Transforming, My Own, Ifs

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• The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Christian, Men, Literature

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation”, p.86, Cambridge University Press

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• Part of the lesbian consciousness is an absolute recognition of the erotic within our lives and, taking that a step further, dealing with the erotic not only in sexual terms.

  Audre Lorde

  Erotic, Steps, Recognition

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• Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Book, Reading, Register

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• What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?

  Orison Swett Marden

  Home, Heart, Power

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “ORISON SWETT MARDEN Premium Collection - Wisdom & Empowerment Series (18 Books in One Volume): Steps to Success and Power, How to Get What You Want, An Iron Will, Be Good to Yourself, Every Man A King, Keeping Fit, Prosperity – How to Attract It, Stepping-Stones To Fame And Fortune...”, p.476, e-artnow

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• The human being is flesh and consciousness, body and soul; his heart is an abyss which can only be filled by that which is godly.

  Olivier Messiaen

  Heart, Godly, Soul

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• There are a great number of Republicans who are economically conservative but have hearts and a consciousness about their country.

  Tim Robbins

  Country, Heart, Numbers

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• Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Philosophical, Adversity, Sleep

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1856). “The Confessions of J.J. Rousseau”, p.110

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• I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness.

  James Thurber

  Sneezing, Allergies, Wake Up

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• True philosophy must start from the most immediate and comprehensive fact of consciousness: "I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live."

  Albert Schweitzer

  Life, Philosophy, Want

  "Kulturphilosophie"(Philosophy of Civilisation) by Albert Schweitzer, translated by C. T. Campion, Chapter 26, 1949.

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• Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspiring, Mastery, Patterns

  Bruce Lee (1975). “Tao of Jeet Kune Do”, Black Belt Communications Incorporated

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• A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspiring, Teacher, Mastery

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.90, Tuttle Publishing

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• If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Lying, Mastery

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.206, Tuttle Publishing

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• There needs to be a shift in consciousness; there needs to be an absolute wake-up call before society can actually make the kind of incredibly significant changes that need to happen.

  Annie Lennox

  Motivation, Significant Change, Society

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• In studying the history of the human mind one is impressed again and again by the fact that its growth keeps pace with a widening range of consciousness, and that each step forward is an extremely painful and laborious achievement. One could almost say that nothing is more hateful to man than to give up the smallest particle of unconsciousness. He has a profound fear of the unknown. Ask anybody who has ever tried to introduce new ideas!

  Carl Jung

  Giving Up, Men, Ideas

  "Collected Works of C.G. Jung: The development of personality".

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• Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mystery, Wonder, Illusion

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If humankind would accept and acknowledge this responsibility and become creatively engaged in the process of evolution, consciously as well as unconsciously, a new reality would emerge, and a new age could be born.

  Jonas Salk

  Character, Responsibility, Angel

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• Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Life, Motivation

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