Consciousness Quotations

Consciousness quotations to deepen your understanding about this ephemeral quality we have come to talk about so much as human beings. Whether or not it is - and what is it - it does not appear that science is any more likely to understand and find the answers as there is a likelihood of 'getting it' through these consciousness quotations - with a little bit of 'looking-in' for your own self. Enjoy.

Union of the seer and the seen happens when the seer becomes conscious of himself as the seer; he is not merely interested in the seen, which he is anyhow, but also interested in being interested, giving attention to attention, aware of being aware. Affectionate awareness is the crucial factor that brings Reality into focus.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

‘I want to know the mind of God? To be aware. What are the details? Your outer purpose and whatever happens outwardly.

Eckhart Tolle

Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body.

Stansilov Grof

My feeling is religious insofar as I am imbued with the consciousness of the insufficiency of the human mind to understand more deeply the harmony of the Universe which we try to formulate as ‘laws of nature.’

Albert Einstein

Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make very small use of their possible consciousness and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger.

William James

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.

Ernest Dimnet

It is on the whole probably that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it.

Carl Jung

Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.

Ramana Maharshi

The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist

William James

Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness, which unites your body to your thoughts.

Thich Nhat Hanh

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