Quotes about Consciousness
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
The inner world is as real as the outer world. One ought to be conscious of that… These two worlds are fed by each other, you must not neglect one at the expense of the other, must not deem one more important than the other.
— Etty Hillesum
Oh, Lord, let me feel at one with myself. Let me perform a thousand daily tasks with love, but let every one spring from a greater central core of devotion and love.
— Etty Hillesum
The temptations that use the raw material of good for evil can continue unrecognized for a long time without awareness.
— Eugene Peterson
Such insinuated insecurities need to be confronted directly and plainly. It is not possible to drift unconsciously from faith to perdition.
— Eugene Peterson