Consciousness is not personal. Human consciousness is just an expression of universal consciousness, which pervades the entire universe.
There are vast realms of consciousness still undreamed of -vast ranges of experience, like humming of unseen harps, we know nothing of, within us.
Perhaps the meaning of all human activity lies in artistic consciousness, in the pointless and selfless creative act? Perhaps our capacity to create is evidence that we ourselves were created in the image and likeness of God?
The best thing next to wit is a consciousness that it is not in us; without wit, a man might then know how to behave himself, so as not to appear to be a fool or a coxcomb.
Some people are paralyzed by the consciousness of death, other people live with it. . . . The fatwa certainly made me think about it a lot more than I ever had. I guess I know I'm going to die, but then, so are you.
Increasing consciousness = increasing complexity.
The hardest thing in making a movie is to keep in the front of your consciousness your original response to the material. Because that's going to be the thing that will make the movie. And the loss of that will break the movie.
I think human consciousness is a misstep in evolution. We became too self-aware, nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself. We are creatures that should not exist by natural law.
Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in it. They are, if you want to put it in positive terms, great educational institutions. If you want to put it in negative terms, they are propaganda machines.
The idea that consciousness is the ground of being is the basis of all spiritual traditions.
Analysis does not transform consciousness.
You think, you become that thought. And consciousness, or the state of pure awareness, is lost.
Without the ability to think about yourself, to reflect on your life, there’s really no awareness, no consciousness. Consciousness doesn’t come automatically; it comes through being alive, awake, curious, and often furious.
Every time you create a gap in the stream of mind, the light of your consciousness grows stronger
The introduction of LSD and psychedelics into the culture produced a transformation of the entire culture, the consciousness of the culture.
In good company, the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present.
Once the light of our awareness is cast on any darkness, then it cannot hide and it cannot remain. Such is the law of consciousness.
I explored alternate states of consciousness at one period of my life through psychedelics, as was the fashion with all my friends.
The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time.
There is still consciousness in hip hop.