Best Consciousness Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I was listening to a lot of hip hop, music like Public Enemy that was about raising consciousness, and I realised I could feed that directly into my work, using images in a way that was a bit like sampling - taking images from diverse places, exploring the contradictions without trying to hide the seams.”

Way Trying Bits Consciousness Enemy Listening Hip Hop Hips Contradiction Hops Diverse Exploring Realised Sampling Public Enemies Hip Hop Music

Author:Chris Ofili

“The will to originality is not the will to be peculiar and unlike anybody else; it means the desire to derive one's consciousness from its primary source.”

Writing Mean Desire Consciousness Source Primaries Peculiar Originality Primary Source

Author:Nikolai Berdyaev

“My feeling is religious insofar as I am imbued with the consciousness of the insufficiency of the human mind to understand more deeply the harmony of the Universe which we try to formulate as "laws of nature".”

Trying Mind Humans Feelings Law Religion Universe Religious Consciousness Harmony Human Mind Laws Of Nature Insufficiency

Book:The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

“Religion is not a fractional thing that can be doled out in fixed weekly or daily measures as one among various subjects in the school syllabus. It is the truth of our complete being, the consciousness of our personal relationship with the infinite.”

School Religion Consciousness Subjects Infinite Various Fixed Personal Relationships Syllabus

Book:The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany

Source: The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany

“The truth is that God is the force. He is the essence of life. He is pure and undefiled consciousness. He is eternal.”

God Force Consciousness Truth Is Pure Eternal Essence Essence Of Life

Book:All Men Are Brothers

Source: All Men Are Brothers

“The one aim of [my] yoga is an inner self-development by which each one who follows it can in time discover the One Self in all and evolve a higher consciousness than the mental, a spiritual and supramental consciousness which will transform and divinize human nature.”

Humans Self Spiritual Spirituality Consciousness Human Nature Development Higher Yoga Aim Evolve Self Development Inner Self Higher Consciousness

Author:Sri Aurobindo

“It seems the best approach for any venture is a combo platter - Japan's quality-consciousness paired with America's willingness to experiment and (sometimes) fail.”

Sometimes Seems America Consciousness Quality Failing Approach Experiments Japan Willingness Venture

Author:Daniel H. Pink

“I got into animals by drawing hair follicles. I liked drawing hair, and from that I got into feathers and fur, then into images of animals. The patterning is the same, but the proportions of the body change from one animal to the next. A lot of it is just geometry and consciousness.”

Body Next Animal Consciousness Hair Drawing Proportion Feathers Geometry Fur Body Change

Author:Kiki Smith

“Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.”

Universe Consciousness

Book:Highway of Eternity

Source: Highway of Eternity

“It seems to me a worthy goal: try to create a representation of consciousness that's durable and truthful, i.e., that accounts, somewhat, for all the strange, tiny, hard-to-articulate, instantaneous, unwilled things that actually go on in our minds in the course of a given day, or even a given moment.”

Trying Mind Hard Moments Seems Courses Given Goal Consciousness Strange Goes On Accounts Worthy Tiny Truthful Representation Instantaneous

Author:George Saunders

“If one party is trusting, it is very easy during sex for the other party to format someone, to put thoughts in their mind, to jam their consciousness or attention, to lower their energy or just take power from them.”

Ifs Mind Energy Sex Easy Party Attention Consciousness Jam Format

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Wisdom isn't to know these words. Wisdom isn't to have ideas or philosophies - those are just thoughts. Wisdom is to be that perfect consciousness.”

Knows Ideas Philosophy Wisdom Perfect Consciousness Buddhism Words Of Wisdom Just A Thought

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Children are wise in a funny kind of way. They haven't developed so many vested interests of self. There is a wisdom, a lack of self-consciousness, that is innocence.”

Way Kind Children Self Wisdom Interest Consciousness Wise Havens Buddhism Innocence Self Consciousness Vested Interests

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The action of giving is in a certain vibratory level, meaning giving exists in a certain plane of consciousness.”

Giving Action Certain Levels Consciousness Compassion Buddhism Balance Planes

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Certain drugs provide brief excursions into altered states of consciousness. The problem is that the perceptions and understandings that come from these experiences don't tend to last.”

States Problem Lasts Certain Understanding Consciousness Buddhism Balance Drug Perception Altered States Of Consciousness Excursions Altered States Altered States Of Consciousness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Whenever you are in a perceptual field, it seems like it's ultimate. It's a self-wrapping consciousness. There doesn't seem or appear to be anything else other than the attention field that you're in.”

Self Seems Attention Consciousness Awareness Fields Ignorance Buddhism Ultimate Wrapping

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Everyone has sunk on this plane to such a low state of consciousness, it is the natural state. We have deviated so far from the norm in this age of darkness.”

States Age Humanity Natural Consciousness Darkness Buddhism Lows Planes Norm States Of Consciousness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In this world we see more passion than dispassion. We see more fear than knowledge. Armies rule the world. Fear-net is happening. Consequently, everyone is raised with fear embedded in their consciousness.”

World Humanity Passion Consciousness This World Buddhism Happenings Army Raised Embedded

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Very few people are happy in this world. Most are miserable. Even in their so-called happiness, they are unhappy; it is so short of ecstasy, of god-consciousness; it's almost pitiful.”

People World Humanity Consciousness This World Buddhism Unhappy Miserable Ecstasy Pitiful

Author:Frederick Lenz

“What we see in this world is a gross abnormality. The human consciousness fails to perceive the very simple, divine nature of every atom in every moment.”

World Humans Moments Humanity Simple Consciousness Failing This World Divine Buddhism Perceive Atoms Gross Human Consciousness Divine Nature Abnormality

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Diet is a matter of personal preference, but if you're interested in the advanced states of meditation, eating mammals should be avoided. They have a more evolved consciousness and can affect your attention field greatly.”

Ifs Should Matter States Attention Consciousness Meditation Fields Health Buddhism Eating Diets Preference Avoided Athletics Mammals Personal Preferences

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We hit a stride where all self-consciousness disappeared.”

Self Consciousness Stride Self Consciousness

Author:Joshua Leonard

“Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason.”

Soul Reason Light Consciousness Grace Amount

Author:Pope Francis

“It is precisely as though I were possessed by some other spirit when I enter on a new task of acting, as though something within me presses a switch and my own consciousness merges into some other, greater, more vital being.”

Spirit My Own Acting Consciousness Greater Tasks Presses Possessed

Author:Conrad Veidt

“Well, you know, I was raised by a 1970s feminist. My mom had a consciousness-raising group. I used to sit at the top of the stairs and listen to them.”

Knows Wells Used Consciousness Groups Mom Raised Feminist My Mom Stairs

Author:Ayelet Waldman

“A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don't mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book. If it's a big book, there has to be more than one undertow.”

Ifs Writing Mean Book Bigs Social Consciousness Pieces Good Writers Small Pieces Big Book Social Consciousness Undertow

Author:Marguerite Young

“I've always associated consciousness with artists like Bob Marley or Joni Mitchell or Bob Dylan. You know, artists that really talked about what was going on in the world and really artists that are timeless.”

Knows World Artist Consciousness Bob Timeless Dylan Marley

Author:Will Ferrell

“Though I know consciousness kind of boxes you in, it still encompasses the artists that I knew were conscious throughout history of music - they're the ones that you look at as the legends.”

Knows Looks Kind Stills Artist Consciousness Conscious Boxes Legends History Of Music

Author:Will Ferrell

“The national parklands have a major role in providing superlative opportunities for outdoor recreation, but they have other people serving values. They can provide an experience in conservation education for the young people of the country; they can enrich our literary and artistic consciousness; they can help create social values; contribute to our civic consciousness; remind us of our debt to the land of our fathers.”

“All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness.”

Consciousness Seeing Invisible Visible Ecstasy Unattainable

Author:C. S. Lewis

“All of the energy of existence is going to flow through you. You will be in thousands of planes of consciousness at once or beyond in nirvana or having a sandwich with a friend.”

Inspirational Energy Existence Consciousness Buddhism Flow Planes Sandwiches

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In the study of consciousness you cannot explain anything verbally. You can only allude to, point in a general direction of.”

Inspirational Consciousness Study Buddhism Mysticism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When your consciousness expands you are in a world, literally, of light. You live in a world of light where nothing is solid. You don't have to be enlightened to have this experience. You just have to start the inner journey.”

World Inspirational Light Consciousness Journey Buddhism Enlightened Inner Journey

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We sit here on the oasis of human consciousness and the verbal plane trying to talk about something that we just have to go and see and do and feel.”

Inspirational Feels Trying Humans Consciousness Buddhism Planes Human Consciousness Oasis

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Meditation is a violent act of separation from mass consciousness and direct access to power.”

Consciousness Meditation Buddhism Mass Direct Access Separation Violent Violent Acts

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When we meditate and we are able to stop thought, we get a sense of being beyond the body. Our consciousness expands and we see ourselves as beings of light.”

Body Light Able Consciousness Meditation Buddhism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Meditation is a practice of detaching and then stopping ourselves from thinking; our thoughts are interruptions in the flow of awareness. Consciousness, in its highest aspect, is perfect and formless.”

Thinking Perfect Consciousness Practice Meditation Awareness Buddhism Highest Aspect Flow Our Thoughts Stopping Interruptions

Author:Frederick Lenz

“As you meditate, you will find that consciousness itself will move you beyond time and space and condition into a larger, vaster, more beautiful state of awareness.”

States Beautiful Moving Space Consciousness Meditation Conditions Awareness Buddhism Time And Space

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Personal power changes or shapes consciousness, and that is kundalini. Kundalini exists within us. Some people have more of it, some dimensions have more of it.”

People Consciousness Buddhism Shapes Dimensions Personal Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The highest octave kundalini is the golden light which occurs in the supraconscious; it is the supraconscious. It's what they call Sat Chit Ananda - existence, consciousness, bliss ... full consciousness.”

Light Existence Consciousness Buddhism Highest Golden Bliss Sat Golden Light

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The planes of consciousness are correlated to what we call the chakras, which are located along the shushumna.”

Consciousness Buddhism Planes Chakra

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you focus on a chakra, it's very easy to bring subtle physical energies into your consciousness.”

Energy Easy Consciousness Focus Buddhism Subtle Chakra

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In Buddhism we meditate. We make our minds quiet by learning to focus on the chakras, release internal energy that we call kundalini, and bring ourselves into high states of consciousness.”

Mind States Energy Consciousness Focus Buddhism Quiet Release Internals Chakra States Of Consciousness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Gods and goddesses are not what people think they are. Their names are terms with which we try to convey a certain experience, a state of consciousness.”

People Thinking Trying States Certain Names Term Consciousness Hinduism Goddess States Of Consciousness Gods And Goddesses

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Yoga is a science. It is the science of consciousness. Yoga suggests that there is more, other realms, other dimensions, and nirvana - the central nexus where all this comes from.”

Consciousness Yoga Realms Dimensions Hinduism Nexus

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Observe your actions but be so busy that you never contemplate their possible effects. It is only this consciousness that leads to liberation. Everything else is illusion.”

Action Consciousness Effects Illusion Busy Liberation Hinduism Contemplating

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Don't become a slave to success or failure, family, friends, possessions. If these things come to you in life, enjoy them, but fix your consciousness on that which does not change.”

Ifs Doe Enjoy Consciousness Slave Possession Hinduism Enjoy Life Family Friends Success Or Failure

Author:Frederick Lenz

“A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action. The desire for success implants 'success consciousness' which, in turn, creates a vigorous and ever-increasing 'habit of success'.”

Humans Action Desire Turns Consciousness Habit Burning Vigorous Human Actions Implants Burning Desire Desire For Success

Author:Paul J. Meyer

“The purpose of therapy is not to remove suffering but to move through it to an enlarged consciousness that can sustain the polarity of painful opposites.”

Inspirational Moving Purpose Suffering Consciousness Opposites Painful Therapy Remove Polarity

Author:James Hollis

“I think it's science and physics are just starting to learn from all these experiments. These experiments have been carried out hundreds and hundreds of times in all sorts of ways that no physicist really questions the end point. I think that these experiments are very clearly telling us that consciousness is limitless and the ultimate reality.”

Thinking Way Has Beens Ends Reality Consciousness Ultimate Starting Physics Experiments Physicist Limitless Ultimate Reality

Author:Robert Lanza

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