Quotes about Consciousness
A spiritual life in the midst of our energy-draining society requires us to take conscious steps to safeguard that inner space where we can keep our eyes fixed on the beauty of the Lord.
- Henri Nouwen
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.
- Henry David Thoreau
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
- Henry David Thoreau
I do not know how to distinguish between waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?
- Henry David Thoreau
We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.
- Henry David Thoreau
The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred millions to a poetic or divine life. To be awake is to be alive.
- Henry David Thoreau
God himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages.
- Henry David Thoreau
To be alone was something unpleasant. But I was at the same time conscious of a slight insanity in my mood, and seemed to foresee my recovery.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Do not engage to find things as you think they are.
- Henry David Thoreau
The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring.
- Henry David Thoreau