...consciousness is a coherent whole, which is never static or complete, but which is in an unending process of movement and unfoldment. — David Bohm
The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness. — Lao Tzu
In consciousness dwells the wondrous, with it man attains the realm beyond the material, and the Peyote tells us, where to find it. — Antonin Artaud
Consciousness is more important than intelligence. — Lex Fridman
A conscious mind is a mind with a self in it. — Antonio Damasio
Everything in the Universe, throughout all its kingdoms, is conscious: i.e., endowed with a consciousness of its own kind and on its own plane of perception. — H. P. Blavatsky
Consciousness equals energy = love = awareness = light = wisdom = beauty = truth = purity. It's all the same trip. — Ram Dass
We are personally responsible for our own state of consciousness. As Soul unfolds toward total freedom, It understands total responsibility must be accepted for every thought and action. — Harold Klemp
I am perceiving everyone, including myself, as an awakening being who is here to claim his or her birthright to the higher consciousness planes of unconditional love and oneness. — Ken Keyes Jr.
The cosmos is evolving toward greater self-reflection, allowing us to open the eye of Spirit and see our source. — Alex Grey
Evolution of mankind is paralleled by the increase and expansion of consciousness. — Albert Hofmann
It is the inner life that is to spark the change in consciousness that will permit us to advance — Wayne Teasdale
We could all be mediums, and all have absolute knowledge, if the bright light of our ego consciousness would not dim it. — Marie-Louise von Franz
The consciousness in you and the consciousness in me, apparently two, really one, seek unity and that is love. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Those who are highly evolved, maintain an undiscriminating perception. Seeing everything, labeling nothing, they maintain their awareness of the Great Oneness. Thus they are supported by it. — Lao Tzu
Higher Level Of Consciousness Quotes
Watching people reach a higher level of consciousness. A fixation. For a few moments in their lives, they transcend and become lost in the fantasy of it all. As a DJ, I'm trying to create the opportunity for this to happen. — Jeff Mills
I live on the other side of Charles Darwin and I can no longer see human light as having been created perfect and falling into sin, I see us rather emerging into higher and higher levels of consciousness and higher and higher levels of complication. — John Shelby Spong
When you get to a higher level of consciousness, though, when you get into a spiritual approach to life, you are not trying to get someplace else... — Wayne Dyer
Life will give you whatever experience is the most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.
If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness. — Les Brown
And we're seeing a higher level of consciousness and many more opportunities for people to challenge their present ways of thinking and move into a grander and larger experience of who they really are. — Neale Donald Walsch
When we learn new behaviors and break through to higher levels of consciousness and love, we can fulfill the deeper spiritual hunger within. — Judith Wright
Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.
I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness. — Huey Newton
When you realize that the real breakthroughs come from levels of higher consciousness, then you also realize that the achievement of maturity and wisdom is the most powerful generator of new beginnings possible. — Marianne Williamson
When I see and feel the life beat of Spirit in every object, I evolve to a higher level of transformation called consciousness — Deepak Chopra
Parenting @ a higher level of consciousness:1st love self so deeply that when ur child misbehaves U do not have 2 react @LoveNever_Fails
When you give a little of yourself to a child, you give a little of yourself to their future! — Kevin Heath
Raising Consciousness Quotes
I think what I'd really like to see would be a mass consciousness-raising movement so that we would all become vegetarian. — Richard Dawkins
An image of the earth, its landscapes, directly affects people. The beauty of the earth creates enormous emotion, and through that emotion, you can transmit knowledge and raise consciousness — Yann Arthus-Bertrand
As artists, we have an opportunity to help the public evolve, raise consciousness and awareness, teach, heal, enlighten and inspire in ways the democratic process may not be able to touch. So we keep it moving. — Lauryn Hill
There is no higher truth, no greater knowledge, than never doubting who you are.
It's not the world that needs to change - it's our consciousness we must raise — Rasheed Ogunlaru
I find it difficult to say I'm black first and a woman second or vice versa. I can't make that kind of distinction. Amongst Aboriginal women I do my best to raise their consciousness both as women and as Aboriginals. — Pat O'Shane
I Should Just Stop Tweeting, The Human Consciousness Must Raise Before I Speak My Juvenile Philosophy. — Jaden Smith
Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.
I think there is no work of art which represents the spirit of a nation more surely than "Die Meister Singer" of Richard Wagner. Here is no plaything with local colour, but the raising to its highest power all that is best in the national consciousness of his country. — Ralph Vaughan Williams
I had to make a major decision with myself because I just don't think you can do both: try to have a baby career and raise it and have a baby baby and raise it. And to try to do justice to either one. It was a very conscious decision on my part not to have children - which I have never regretted. — Betty White
As more people of color raise our consciousness and refuse to be pitted against one another, the forces of neo-colonial white supremacist domination must work harder to divide and conquer. — Bell Hooks
You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character. — Marquis De Vauvenargues
Deep Quotes
Dare to declare who you are. It is not far from the shores of silence to the boundaries of speech. The path is not long, but the way is deep. You must not only walk there, you must be prepared to leap. — Hildegard of Bingen
Great sea captains are made in rough waters and deep seas. — Kathryn Kuhlman
True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the contrary, an element calm and deep. It looks beyond mere externals, and is attracted by qualities alone. It is wise and discriminating, and its devotion is real and abiding. — Ellen G. White
Each of us guard a gate of that can only be unlocked from the inside.
One thing about championship teams is that they're resilient. No matter what is thrown at them, no matter how deep the hole, they find a way to bounce back and overcome adversity. — Nick Saban
Take a deep breath, listen to your favorite song and realize everything is gonna be okay, nothing is permanent. — Camila Cabello
If you let a person talk long enough you'll hear their true intentions. Listen twice, speak once. — Tupac Shakur
Dream higher than the sky and deeper than the ocean.
If you think down, you will go down. If you think up, you will go up. You’ll always travel in the direction of your thinking. — T. D. Jakes
The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do. — Michael Porter
As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives. — Henry David Thoreau
An orchid in a deep forest sends out its fragrance even if no one is around to appreciate it. — Confucius
Level Of Consciousness Quotes
No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it. — Albert Einstein
Every woman who has come to consciousness can recall an almost endless series of oppressive, violating, insulting, assaulting acts against her Self. Every woman is battered by such assaults - is on a psychic level, a battered woman. — Mary Daly
Most people would rather complain about some painful life pattern than dare to meet the level of their own consciousness responsible for its repeated appearance... and therein do the work needed to change it once and for all. — Guy Finley
You can never rise higher than your expectations of yourself. Expect the best!
For original ideas to come about, you have to let them percolate under the level of consciousness in a place where we have no way to make them obey our own desires or our own direction. Their random combinations are driven by forces we don't know about. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
I found that people had all kinds of levels of consciousness, all kinds of levels of education, but that Cubans in general were very educated politically. I could go sit in a bus and get into a conversation with someone and that person had a wealth of knowledge. And energy! — Assata Shakur
Consciousness is much more of the implicate order than is matter... Yet at a deeper level [matter and consciousness] are actually inseparable and interwoven, just as in the computer game the player and the screen are united by participation. — David Bohm
No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche. — Carl Jung
Of course you don't die. Nobody dies. Death doesn't exist. You only reach a new level of vision, a new realm of consciousness, a new unknown world. — Henry Miller
Having reached a high level of realization (or having accomplished anything in life), don't get excited or puffed up with pride but remain calm, humble, and in "perfect equanimity" if you want to continue in this deep state of consciousness. — Lao Tzu
I think more like a quantum
Buddhist, in that there is a universal proto-conscious mind which we
access, and can influence us. But it actually exists at the
funda-mental level of the universe, at the Planck scale. — Stuart Hameroff
Human Consciousness Quotes
The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity. — Steven Biko
The unconscious of one human being can react upon that of another without passing through the conscious. — Sigmund Freud
Just let go. Let go of how you thought your life should be, and embrace the life that is trying to work its way into your consciousness.
Today, something is happening to the whole structure of human consciousness. A fresh kind of life is starting. Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world are seeking each other, so that the world may come into being. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software. — Greg Egan
Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery... a topic that often leaves even the most sophisticated thinkers tongue-tied and confused. And, as with all of the earlier mysteries, there are many who insist - and hope - that there will never be a demystification of consciousness. — Daniel Dennett
Worrying is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but doesn't get you anywhere.
Christianity is, I believe, about expanded life, heightened consciousness and achieving a new humanity. It is not about closed minds, supernatural interventions, a fallen creation, guilt, original sin or divine rescue. — John Shelby Spong
Humans cannot communicate; not even their brains can communicate; not even their conscious minds can communicate. Only communication can communicate. — Niklas Luhmann
If ordinary people really knew that consciousness and not matter is the link that connects us with each other and the world, then their views about war and peace, environmental pollution, social justice, religous values, and all other human endeavors would change radically. — Amit Goswami
True love, in the evolutionary sense, means peace of mind. ‘Still waters run deep’ is a good way of characterizing it. — Amir Levine
Cosmic Consciousness Quotes
The bad news is you're falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there's no ground. — Chogyam Trungpa
We live in succession, in division, in parts and particles. Meantime, within man, is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal One. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is perhaps no better a demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. — Carl Sagan
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
I have no sense of nationalism, only a cosmic consciousness of belonging to the human family. — Rosika Schwimmer
We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I understood that our entire universe is contained in the mind and the spirit. We may choose not to find access to it, we may even deny its existence, but it is indeed there inside us, and there are chemicals that can analyze its availability. — Alexander Shulgin
I am no longer the wave of consciousness thinking itself separated from the sea of cosmic consciousness. I am the ocean of Spirit that has become the wave of human life. — Paramahansa Yogananda
Real happiness lies in that which never comes nor goes, but simply is. — Ram Dass
The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go. — Atisa
Synchronistic events constitute moments in which a 'cosmic' or 'greater' meaning becomes gradually conscious in an individual; generally it is a shaking experience. — Marie-Louise von Franz
Consciousness Expanding Quotes
But we are born to be happy, to be abundantly supplied with every good thing, to have fun in living, to consciously unite with the Divine Power that is around us and within us, and to grow and expand forever. — Ernest Holmes
When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds; your mind transcends limitations; your conscious expands in every direction; and you find yourself in a great, new and wonderful world. — Patanjali
The purpose of being is really making the soul ascend, to expand consciousness. That’s our true purpose. And if we follow that path then there is no tension. You just live like a kid, open. It’s all simple. It’s beautiful and the energy is clean. We are children of mother nature. — Wim Hof
Enlightenment is any experience of expanding our consciousness beyond its present limits. — Thaddeus Golas
I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota. — Fran Lebowitz
If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own. — Stephen Covey
Consciousness is the basis of all life and the field of all possibilities. Its nature is to expand and unfold its full potential. The impulse to evolve is thus inherent in the very nature of life. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Prayer does not change God, it changes us. It deepens insight, increases intuitive perception, expands consciousness. It transforms personality. — Wilferd Peterson
God's all happiness, all bliss, and by chanting His names we connect with Him. So it's really a process of actually having a realization of God, which all becomes clear with the expanded state of consciousness that develops when you chant. — George Harrison
If you put yourself in a position where you have to stretch outside your comfort zone, then you are forced to expand your consciousness. — Les Brown
Soul Consciousness Quotes
Each soul in entering the material experience does so for those purposes of advancement towards that awareness of being fully conscious of the oneness with the Creative Forces. — Edgar Cayce
Just as the Atman (Soul) is the reality underlying the conscious powers of an individual, so the Supreme Soul (God) is the eternal quiet underneath the drive and activity of the universe. — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
When souls really touch, it is forever. Then space and time disappear, and all that remains is the consciousness that we are not alone in life. — Joan D. Chittister
No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul. — Ingmar Bergman
It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. — W. E. B. Du Bois
All spiritual experiences are sensations in the body. They are simply a graded series of sensations, beginning with the solidity of earth and passing gradually, in full consciousness, through liquidness and the emanation of heat to that of a total vibration before reaching the Void. — Sri Anirvan
Whatever task you undertake, do it with all your heart and soul. Always be courteous, never be discouraged. Beware of him who promises something for nothing. Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures. Do not look for approval except the consciousness of doing your best. — Bernard Baruch
The pious sectarian is proud because he is confident of his right of possession in God. The man of devotion is meek because he is conscious of God's right of love over his life and soul. — Rabindranath Tagore
Education costs an arm and a leg, but ignorance costs you your mind and your soul. — Matshona Dhliwayo
The "kingdom of heaven" to which he referred was the state of God-consciousness, not the beautiful astral heavens that most people visualize, where virtuous souls go after death. — Goswami Kriyananda
Infinite Consciousness Quotes
When you look in the mirror what do you see? Do you see the real you, or what you have been conditioned to believe is you? — David Icke
Religion is not a fractional thing that can be doled out in fixed weekly or daily measures as one among various subjects in the school syllabus. It is the truth of our complete being, the consciousness of our personal relationship with the infinite. — Rabindranath Tagore
You are caught in the current of unceasing change. Your life is a ripple in it. Every moment of your conscious life links the infinite past with the infinite future. Take part in both and you will not find the present empty. — Oswald Spengler
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind. — Swami Vivekananda
A dim consciousness of infinite mystery and grandeur lies beneath all the commonplace of life . There is an awfulness and a majesty around us, in all our little worldliness . — Albert Pike
Time and again human consciousness fixates, and slams the door on its greatest gift, the open-endedness of infinite possibility. As a result we do not experience reality but merely our concept of it. — Jose Arguelles
An ancient Vedic aphorism says, "Infinite flexibility is the secret to immortality." When we cultivate flexibility in or consciousness, we renew ourselves in every moment and reverse the aging process. — Deepak Chopra
Every single person has within an ocean of pure vibrant consciousness. Every single human being can experience that - infinite intelligence, infinite creativity, infinite happiness, infinite energy, infinite dynamic peace. — David Lynch
Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences. — Robert Anton Wilson
Higher Self Quotes
Remember that you will never reach a higher standard than you yourself set. Then set your mark high, and step by step, even though it be by painful effort, by self-denial and sacrifice, ascend the whole length of the ladder of progress. — Ellen G. White
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. — William Faulkner
Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator. — Erykah Badu
By learning to trust your intuition, miracles seem to happen. Intuitive thoughts are gifts from the higher self. — Susan Jeffers
The higher nature in man always seeks for something which transcends itself and yet is its deepest truth; which claims all its sacrifice, yet makes this sacrifice its own recompense. This is man's dharma, man's religion, and man's self is the vessel. — Rabindranath Tagore
My philosophy is based on the principle of self-ownership. You own your life. To deny this is to imply that another person has a higher claim on your life than you do. No other person, or group of persons, owns your life nor do you own the lives of others. — Ken Schoolland
An artist who lacks the power of self-criticism accomplishes but little. It is good if your work stands higher than your own opinion of it; bad if it is on the same level. But it is a great disaster if your work stands lower than your judgment of it. — Leonardo da Vinci
We can become the masters of our own destinies by practicing self-discipline and by setting worthy goals that will lead to higher ground so that we can become what our heavenly father wants us to become. — M. Russell Ballard
No Marxist can deny that the interests of socialism are higher than the interests of the right of nations to self-determination. — Vladimir Lenin
The Goddess doesn't enter us from outside; she emerges from deep within. She is not held back by what happened in the past. She is conceived in consciousness, born in love, and nurtured by higher thinking. She is integrity and value, created and sustained by the hard work of personal growth and the discipline of a life lived actively in hope. — Marianne Williamson
Death is simply a shedding of the physical body like the butterfly shedding its cocoon. It is a transition to a higher state of consciousness where you continue to perceive, to understand, to laugh, and to be able to grow. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
The key is to be in a state of permanent connectedness with your inner body - to feel it at all times. This will rapidly deepen and transform your life. The more consciousness you direct into the inner body, the higher its vibrational frequency becomes. — Eckhart Tolle
A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. — Ken Keyes Jr.
All there is in your life is the eternal now moment - and your experience of this moment is created by the programming in your head. — Ken Keyes Jr.
Life is warning you to get rid of an addiction every time you are emotionally uncomfortable in any way. — Ken Keyes Jr.
Christ's mission is to release the divine into our conscious knowing. He awakens the impulse in humanity to rise above his lower nature and be aware of his higher nature that dwells within. — Flower A. Newhouse
Upgrade your addictions to the status of preferences. Here's the distinction between an addiction and a preference. — Ken Keyes Jr.
You add to the suffering in the world when you take offense, just as much as you do when you give offense. — Ken Keyes Jr.
What is required is faith. Man has body, life and mind but that is not all that constitutes man. He has risen to the mind as a result of evolution. Now a higher consciousness will be evolved - this I call Supermind. It is the instrument of the Divine Consciousness, the Truth-Consciousness. — Sri Aurobindo
The only thing that really matters now is whether man can climb up to a higher moral level, to a higher plane of consciousness, in order to be equal to the superhuman powers which the fallen angels have played into his hands. But he can make no progress until he becomes very much better acquainted with his own nature. — Carl Jung
As we grow in higher consciousness, we discover that it is more important to be the right person then to find the right person. — Ken Keyes Jr.
The only real problem in your life is how you're using your mind. — Ken Keyes Jr.
If you want those around you to act in a more loving and conscious manner, act in a way that helps them to do so. — Ken Keyes Jr.
Whenever you feel upset, take full responsibility for the emotions that you are experiencing. Get to work as quickly as possible identifying the programming, or the addiction, that is leading you to reject what other people are saying or doing. — Ken Keyes Jr.
Giving up an addiction means re-programming that part of your brain that makes you restless and unhappy if a desire is not realized. — Ken Keyes Jr.
The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness. — Pir Vilayat Khan
Once again, when you upgrade sensations from an addiction to a preference, you can enjoy things such as gourmet food and music, without having your happiness depend on them. — Ken Keyes Jr.
You stop viewing yourself as being "pushed around" by the world when you realize that only you can "push" yourself. To quote Buddha: "Nothing is upsetting you. You get upset because you are upsettable." — Ken Keyes Jr.
serene illumination, or just sitting, is not a technique, or a means to some resulting higher state of consciousness, or any particular state of being. Just sitting, one simply meets the immediate present. Desiring some flashy experience, or anything more or other than 'this' is mere worldly vanity and craving. — John Daido Loori
Just trusting the soul cannot lead you to higher consciousness. You have to pay attention for the beautification of your heart. — Amit Ray
The practice of discernment is part of higher consciousness. Discernment is not just a step up from judgment. In life's curriculum, it is the opposite of judgment. Through judgment a man reveals what he needs to confront and learn. Through discernment, one reveals what he has mastered. — Glenda Green
Every test successfully met is rewarded by some growth in intuitive knowledge, strengthening of character, or initiation into a higher consciousness. — Paul Brunton
The Dalai Lama visited the White House and told the President that he could teach him to find a higher state of consciousness. Then after talking to Bush for a few minutes, he said, 'You know what? Let's just grab lunch.' — Bill Maher
All the things that truly matter, beauty, love, creativity, joy and inner peace arise from beyond the mind. — Eckhart Tolle
As the proportion of people reaching higher states of consciousness increases, this inertia will decrease, and at the same time a supportive momentum in the new direction will start building up. — Peter Russell
Spirit is the essence of consciousness, the energy of the universe that creates all things. Each one of us is a part of that spirit - a divine entity. So the spirit is the higher self, the eternal being that lives within us. — Shakti Gawain
Your freedom is a supreme value. Nothing is higher than that. But your freedom is possible only if you are not encaged in your habits, unconscious patterns of living. Change your gestalt from unconsciousness to consciousness. — Osho
As the watcher of the screen, you are perfect. The movie that is playing on the screen might be horrendous, but you are not the movie. You are what is watching the movie. — Ken Keyes Jr.
Whenever you're unhappy, your emotions are telling you that the people or things around you are not conforming to your vision of the world, or the way you think things should be. — Ken Keyes Jr.
When a tire blows, you simply accept that this is the here and now reality of your life. You've lost the tire, but that doesn't mean that you have to lose your peace and serenity. Now, serenely, begin to take the necessary steps in order the change the tire. — Ken Keyes Jr.
Think of the world as a loving place that is designed to give you everything that you need. — Ken Keyes Jr.
One must remember that the higher he climbs the spiritual ladder toward the Kingdom of Heaven, the more will he grant others their own freedom and give less interference to another's state of consciousness. — Paul Twitchell
The one aim of [my] yoga is an inner self-development by which each one who follows it can in time discover the One Self in all and evolve a higher consciousness than the mental, a spiritual and supramental consciousness which will transform and divinize human nature. — Sri Aurobindo
I think maintenance comes from a daily spiritual growth practice of some kind: prayer, meditation, affirmations. Something that keeps you in the consciousness of higher thoughts and energy. That's also how you make sure you don't do it again. — Gabrielle Bernstein
Angels can help us understand what intuition means in a personal way. Angels are actually in charge of a large part of our intuitive self. Viewing intuition from the perspective of angel consciousness, we can say that intuition is our way of tapping into a higher power for guidance and awareness. — Terry Taylor
Who you spend time with is who you become! Change your life by consciously choosing to surround yourself with people with higher standards! — Tony Robbins
Neurons that fire together wire together. You can rewire your brain for higher consciousness by focusing on love. — Deepak Chopra
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