Quotes about Consciousness
When it is recognized that there is nothing beyond what is seen of the mind itself, the discrimination of being and non-being ceases and, as there is thus no external world as the object of perception, nothing remains but the solitude of Reality.
— Jack Kerouac
I believe that the real difference in the American church is not between conservatives and liberals, fundamentalists and charismatics, nor between Republicans and Democrats. The real difference is between the aware and the unaware.
— Brennan Manning
A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself is doomed. We are one planet.
— Carl Sagan
A man remains ignorant because he loves ignorance, and chooses ignorant thoughts; a man becomes wise because he loves wisdom and chooses wise thoughts.
— James Allen
We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
— Vernon Howard
God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is.
— Marianne Williamson
Allowing the truth of who you are-your spiritual self-to rule your life means you stop the struggle and learn to move with the flow of your life.
— Oprah Winfrey
Spirituality for me is recognizing that I am connected to the energy of all creation, that I am a part of it and it is always a part of me.
— Oprah Winfrey
The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness.
— JM Coetzee
We are material beings for but a moment in time, but we are spiritual beings forever.
— Marianne Williamson
Remember, we are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
— Stephen Covey
I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death?
— Deepak Chopra