Quotes about Consciousness
All our words and acts are passing in review before God.
— Ellen White
It is not our body which feels, not our mind which thinks, but we, as single human beings, who both feel and think.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
It sometimes happens and will sometimes happen again that I forget who I am and strut before my eyes, like a stranger.
— Samuel Beckett
If I was dead, I wouldn't know I was dead. That's the only thing I have against death. I want to enjoy my death.
— Samuel Beckett
Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.
— Samuel Johnson
Well, sir, if things are real, they're there all the time." "Are they?" said the Professor; and Peter did not quite know what to say.
— CS Lewis
Space and time are "sensed" not seen. They are created in consciousness which is spaceless and timeless.
— Deepak Chopra
Although we think that we think, most of the time we are being thought by the collective mind, the hypnosis of conditioning.
— Deepak Chopra
Limit time to the present. Meditate upon your last hour.
— Marcus Aurelius
Every time we go to sleep, it's a rehearsal of the day when our eyes will ultimately close and we wake up on the side of eternity.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
But all the time our warmth and brilliance are right here. This is who we really are. We are one blink of an eye away from being fully awake.
— Pema Chodron
Meditation refreshes our mind and helps us let go of old patterns. We spend less time dwelling on the past or worrying about the future; instead, we are focused on the present.
— Deepak Chopra