Quotes about Consciousness
Meditation demands an astonishingly alert mind; it is the understanding of the totality of life in which every form of fragmentation has ceased.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Enchanted partnership begins with the conscious understanding, on the part of two people, that the purpose of their relationship is not so much material as spiritual, and the internal skills demanded by it are prodigious.
- Marianne Williamson
Look, I do spray flies, but I have a really big conscience.
- Judith Durham
Man's ethics must not end with man, but should extend to the universe. He must regain the consciousness of the great Chain of Life from which he cannot be separated.
- Albert Schweitzer
Man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.
- Elbert Hubbard
What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self?
- William Law
Man is the mirror God holds up to himself, the sense organ with which he apprehends his being.
- Carl Jung
If there is no meditation, then you are like a blind man in a world of great beauty, light and colour.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
For God's sake, let us be men not monkeys minding machines or sitting with our tails curled while the machine amuses us, the radio or film or gramophone. Monkeys with a bland grin on our faces.
- DH Lawrence
Man does not have a soul. He is a soul. He has a body.
- CS Lewis
Man is unique in that, unlike animals, he knows he is going to die, and unlike animals he can do something about it.
- Ray Comfort
The only thing about a man that is a man is his mind.
- Earl Nightingale