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Consciousness Quotes
"That which is capable of perceiving objective reality is, in Sufism, the human soul (ruh)."
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"Peace and love are just as contagious as anger and fear. Your mindset affects the people around you and perpetually changes the world. The question is - what kind of world are you creating? What new society are you thinking into existence?"
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"Observing the stream of eternal and simple truth is the same for all who look upon the fountainhead of consciousness."
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"You are not the body, you are not the mind - you are the observer."
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"In a sense, we are all crashing to our death from the top story of our birth ... and wondering with an immortal Alice at the patterns of the passing wall. This capacity to wonder at trifles - no matter the imminent peril - these asides of the spirit ... are the highest form of consciousness."
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"One can ask why the I has to appear in the cogito {Descartes' argument "I think therefore I am.}, since the cogito, if used rightly, is the awareness of pure consciousness, not directed at any fact or action. In fact the I is not necessary here, since it is never united directly to consciousness. One can even imagine a pure and self-aware consciousness which thinks of itself as impersonal spontaneity."
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"An introspective person seeks to attain a pure state of consciousness by merging finitude in infinity and by expressing the rapture of the soul through the contemplation and adoration of beauty. In this brief interlude of time, I surrender to becoming a cog in the roadway, an insentient time traveler, a ward of eternity, a day-tripper, a nighttime dream weaver, a blip in the cosmos, a freebase glob of energy, an imaginable disk of bundled vitality that wants for nothing."
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"You are what you consume, and as an organism and consciousness, you in fact become a commodity and predator yourself."
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"Consciousness makes you an unlimited being by giving the power of your imagination."
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"The spark of consciousness is reflected in the river, where a dance of infinite faces lined in profane lights."
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"There is no reality except the one contained within us."
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"In absence of consciousness, human beings would merely be animated material objects. Without the synergistic impact of consciousness, free will, and perception of a cohesive self, which act to direct human conduct, many of the qualities that we associate with our humanness would be moot or superfluous delusions including laughter and pain, memories and thoughts, love and anger, imagination and dreams. Without consciousness and free will, humankind would lack the ability to choose right from wrong and there could be no mental discipline directing each person's lifestyle, attitudes, and belief systems."
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"The level of consciousness defines the level of understanding and awareness."
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"Consciousness ain't slower than a blink of an eye."
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"Various fascinating psychological elements are involved in the transcendental state of human consciousness. One may lose the ability to distinguish one's self from the rest of the world in transcendence, but still it is the human brain that constructs that state of mind. Hence, even in that altered state of consciousness one is not totally devoid of one's beliefs, conjectures, ideas and fantasies. In fact, these ideas fill up the transcendental experience with all kinds of fanatic stories that happen to be unique, based on the person's inner urges and drives."
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"In your usual state of consciousness, there is a separate quale experience of everything you observe. But when you transcend into the domain of absolute divinity, all your qualia get mixed up."
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"Consciousness is the awareness of the interaction and interdependence among mind, body, spirit, and the universe where it resides."
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"There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us."
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"Universal consciousness can never die, it can only transform and transcend."
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"When you achieve higher consciousness you will not achieve anything, but you will lose everything that is not important and is not yours."
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"Water and a bubble on it are one and the same. The bubble has its birth in the water, floats on it, and is ultimately resolved into it. Likewise, your consciousness is born in your brain, goes through various states in your lifetime and ultimately resolves into the brain."
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"It is pretty simple - mind is a part of life - consciousness is a part of mind - God is a part of consciousness."
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"The level of consciousness defines the beauty of our lives."
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"When someone achieves higher consciousness, he or she never dies. They only transform."
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"I've heard it argued that long ago pain begat consciousness...Adversity forced awareness on us, and it works, it bites us when we go too near the fire, when we love too hard. Those felt sensations are the beginning of the invention of the self...God said, Let there be pain. And there was poetry. Eventually."
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"The pinnacle of human consciousness must be the rejection of unhealthy competition, war and violence."
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"The level of consciousness determines the deepness of thoughts and the awareness of the beauty of life."
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"Because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, How alive am I willing to be?"
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"Latent brain functions can be enabled by force majeure when we are facing the weirdness of an unknown reality."
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"How small the cosmos (a kangaroo's pouch would hold it), how paltry and puny in comparison to human consciousness, to a single individual recollection, and its expression in words!"
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"From all aspects of human perception, you truly are your brain."
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