Consciousness Quotes

• When you have abandoned all past and future, it is as if you have come alive. You are here, mindful...the nature of all types of consciousness reveals itself.

  

  Ajahn Brahm
  • Nature
  • Consciousness
  • Abandoned

• You get enough people agreeing in consciousness that Mexico is a dangerous place, and that dangerous thought will make it so.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • Consciousness
  • Mexico

• Consciousness is never experienced in the plural, only in the singular. Not only has none of us ever experienced more than one consciousness, but there is also no trace of circumstantial evidence of this ever happening anywhere in the world. If I say that there cannot be more than one consciousness in the same mind, this seems a blunt tautology - we are quite unable to imagine the contrary...

  

  Erwin Schrodinger
  • Imagine
  • Evidence
  • Trace

• Perhaps the single most powerful event facing humanity today is a great awakening on a planetary scale that has been millennia in the making. We humans are in the midst of a profound advance as a species to a higher form of global consciousness that has been emerging across cultures, religions and worldviews through the centuries. This awakening of global consciousness is nothing less than a shift, a maturation, from more egocentric patterns of life to a higher form of integral and dialogic patterns of life.

  

  Ashok Gangadean
  • Advance
  • Millennia
  • Worldviews

• Consciousness begins when brains acquire the power, the simple power I must add, of telling a story.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • Power
  • Simple
  • Brains

• We hit a stride where all self-consciousness disappeared.

  

  Joshua Leonard
  • Consciousness
  • Stride

• Human life and objects and trees vibrate with mysterious meanings, which can be deciphered like cuneiform writing. There exists a meaning, hidden from day to day, but accessible in moments of greatest attentiveness, in those moments when consciousness loves the world.

  

  Adam Zagajewski
  • World
  • Consciousness
  • Meaning

• All profound changes in consciousness, by their very nature, bring with them characteristic amnesias. Out of such oblivions, in specific historical circumstances, spring narratives… The photograph… is only the most peremptory of a huge modern accumulation of documentary evidence… which simultaneously records a certain apparent continuity and emphasizes its loss from memory. Out of this estrangement comes a conception of personhood, identity… which, because it cannot be “remembered”, must be narrated.

  

  Benedict Anderson
  • Identity
  • Memory
  • Evidence

• Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else.

  

  Erwin Schrodinger
  • Consciousness
  • Terms
  • Accounted

• I've puzzled over the difficulty that students have with editing, and I think I've identified its source: It's their self-talk. We all talk to ourselves, inside our heads. That's what consciousness is.

  

  Richard Rhodes
  • Consciousness
  • Inside
  • Identified

• To look to God is to look to the realm of consciousness that can deliver us from the pain of living.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • God
  • Pain
  • Consciousness

• A millennial belief in a Holy God may have the effect of deepening the soul, but it is also obviously archaic, and modern influences would presently bring me up to date and reveal how antiquated my origins were. To turn away from those origins, however, has always seemed to me an utter impossibility. It would be a treason to my first consciousness to un-Jew myself.

  

  Saul Bellow
  • Soul
  • Influence
  • Belief

• 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
  • Realizing
  • Beloved

• People tend to have a government that reflects the level of consciousness of the majority of people who voted.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • Government
  • Consciousness

• We have the tools, the intellect, the will to create a caring global culture. It isn't going to come without a recognition of the power of the psychedelic experience. The psychedelic experience is the birth right of every human being on the planet. It is as much a basic part of each and every one of us as our sexuality, our national identity, our consciousness of self. And any society which attempts to hold back or impede this dimension of self-expression, when the history of that society is written, it will be called barbarous.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Culture
  • Identity
  • Caring

• Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.

  

  John Sterling
  • Life
  • Pain
  • Consciousness

• Art can no longer be merely a mirror, it must act as the organizer of the people's consciousness... No form of representation is so readily comprehensible to the masses as photography.

  

  El Lissitzky
  • Photography
  • Mirror
  • Consciousness

• I hope we have learned throughout centuries of revolution and reaction that it's really a shift in consciousness that we need. And I think there is a shift in consciousness among our human species. I think the human species is evolving, spiritually.

  

  Elizabeth Lesser
  • Hope
  • Revolution
  • Human Species

• I shall not be deprived ... of a comfort in the worst event, if I retain a consciousness of having acted to the best of my judgment.

  

  George Washington
  • Integrity
  • Judgment
  • Comfort

• Our perception of space-time can be thought of in terms of event coordinates relative to our current state of consciousness.

  

  Wayne Gerard Trotman
  • Perception
  • Term
  • Currents

• If you make a street poster and literally paste it on the street in a city like New York, where it's such a mixed population and so densely populated, and it stays up for a full week and doesn't get covered up by something else or pulled down, you will have fifty thousand people who will have seen it. It will be the poorest of the poor - some homeless man who lives on the street will see it and probably appreciate it, or some businessman or landlord will see it. Everyone will see it. And whether or not they even realize that they saw it, on some level it's affecting their consciousness.

  

  Eric Drooker
  • New York
  • Population
  • Businessman

• I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on.

  

  Isaac Rosenberg
  • Life
  • Consciousness
  • Conditions

• The laws of quantum mechanics itself cannot be formulated ... without recourse to the concept of consciousness.

  

  Eugene Wigner
  • Consciousness
  • Laws
  • Quantum

• The only conclusion you can draw from the real historical movement is that by and large, in day-to-day life, what Lenin called trade union consciousness dominates the working class. I would call it elementary class consciousness of the working class.

  

  Ernest Mandel
  • Real
  • Trade
  • Historical

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