Quotes about Consciousness

Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.

The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it Intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why.

The most incomprehensible fact is that we comprehend at all.

Is not a thing that lends significance to a moment; it is the moment that lends significance to things.

Freedom does not mean the right to live as we please. It means the power to live spiritually, to rise to a higher level of existence.

What we see evidence for in others, we will attend to within, what others are silent about, we may stay blind to or experience only in shame.

There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.

She learned a long time ago people were driven by what they thought about the most. Whatever surfaced each morning when they opened their eyes ruled their hearts. Good. Evil. Love. Hate. Benevolence. Sex. Greed.   

Humility involves the full knowledge of our status as creatures, a clear consciousness of having received everything we have from God.

I wasn't conscious of anything I'd left behind and felt no regrets about leaving family or possessions. It was as if God had removed anything negative or worrisome from my consciousness, and I could only rejoice at being together with these wonderful people.

The existence of free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.

The soul knows everything. Be who you are and your life will transform forever.