Quotes about Consciousness

Most Christian 'believers' tend to echo the cultural prejudices and worldviews of the dominant group in their country, with only a minority revealing any real transformation of attitudes or consciousness. It has been true of slavery and racism, classism and consumerism and issues of immigration and health care for the poor.

I think my worst problem is actually living in the moment and understanding everything that's going on. I feel like I'm in my own bubble.

Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.

When the mind is empty, silent, when it is in a state of complete negation - which is not blankness, nor the opposite of being positive, but a totally different state in which all thought has ceased - only then is it possible for that which is unnameable to come into being.

Live among men as if God beheld you speak to God as if men were listening.

Live with men as if God saw you converse with God as if men heard you.

One should count each day a separate life.

We preach to men as if they were conscious they were dying sinners, they are not; they are having a good time.

Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity.

Heaven is neither a place nor a time.

Insight is not a matter of memory, of knowledge and time, which are all thought.

A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe", a part limited in time and space.