Quotes about Consciousness
While individuals may look at their own lives and interactions in terms of paradigms or maps emerging out of their experience and conditioning, these maps are not the territory. They are a "subjective reality," only an attempt to describe the territory.
- Stephen Covey
In the words of William George Jordan, "Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil—the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be."
- Stephen Covey
The flowering of love is meditation.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love is who we are, and when we deviate from that love we're deviating from our ultimate, essential, eternal reality.
- Marianne Williamson
The universe is intentional. It is always moving in the direction of greater love, regardless whether or not we consciously align with that love.
- Marianne Williamson
This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.
- Joseph Brodsky
All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
- Joseph Campbell
The mind is the only thing about human beings that's worth anything. Why does it have to be tied to a bag of skin, blood, hair, meat, bones and tubes? No wonder people can't get anything done, stuck for life with a parasite that has to be stuffed with food and protected from weather and germs all the time. And the fool thing wears out anyway—no matter how much you stuff and protect it! —Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
- Ernest Cline
What happens when you die? Well, we're not completely sure. But the evidence seems to suggest that nothing happens. You're just dead, your brain stops working, and then you're not around to ask annoying questions anymore
- Ernest Cline
and our seeming disregard for its effect on our already-changing climate—in an entirely new light.
- Ernest Cline
Be fully in the moment,open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you.
- Ernest Hemingway