Quotes on Consciousness

The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.

When the province of physical theory was extended to encompass microscopic phenomena through the creation of quantum mechanics, the concept of consciousness came to the fore again. It was not possible to formulate the laws of quantum mechanics in a fully consistent way without reference to the consciousness.

Your awareness has its source in unity. Instead of seeking outside yourself, go to the source to realize who you are.

When we heed the call of our deepest desires, we fulfill our true destinies.

Awareness is an inner quality of consciousness; it has nothing to do with closed or open eyes.

Remember remain alert that you don't get too much attached to the accidental - and all is accidental except your consciousness. Except your awareness, all is accidental. Pain and pleasure, success and failure, fame and defamation - all is accidental. Only your witnessing consciousness is essential. Stick to it! Get more and more rooted in it. And don't spread your attachment to worldly things.

Consciousness means choicelessness, and to be choiceless is to be free from all desire, is to be free from all projection, is to be free from all imagination, is to be free from future.

Meditation is object-less. If you use any object, then it is not meditation; it becomes thinking. It becomes contemplation; it becomes reflection, but not meditation. This is the most essential point to be understood. This is the essence of a meditative state: that it is object-less. Only consciousness is there, but not conscious ABOUT anything. Consciousness without being conscious of anything - this is the nature of meditation.

Meditation means the mind is turned back upon itself. The mind stops all the thought-waves and the world stops. Your consciousness expands. Every time you meditate you will keep your growth.

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

Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.

I think that consciousness has always been the most important topic in the philosophy of mind, and one of the most important topics in cognitive science as a whole, but it had been surprisingly neglected in recent years.

Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery.

A sub-clerk in the post-office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them.

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.

There is a universal intelligence that we call God or Soul or Spirit or Consciousness, and it is everywhere and in all things.

I think it's darkness before the dawn, because the next evolution is going to be a consciousness evolution instead of a communication revolution.

When we transcend our own thoughts, we get in touch with the womb of creation.

Space and time are not objects of perception, but qualities of awareness

Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.

God writes spiritual Mysteries on our heart, where they wait silently for discovery.