Consciousness Quotes – 72 Insightful Sayings

"The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English."

Harry Edson Browne

"Awaken from the sleep that tries to convince you that external circumstances determine your life."

Neville Goddard

"Being "awake" isn't cool. It means having to dumb down 98% of your conversations every day so you don't sound like a lunatic."

Dave Chappelle

"One thought cannot awake without awakening others."

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

"Am I mad, to see what others do not see, or are they mad who are responsible for all that I am seeing?"

Leo Tolstoi

"A change of circumstance happens as a result of a change in your state of consciousness."

Neville Goddard

"Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us."

Oscar Wilde

"What man does not recognize from himself, he does not recognize at all."

Ludwig Feuerbach

"I started it with the keen feeling that there were beings of higher intelligence controlling what I was doing, and I didn’t know how to talk about it or explain it. I called them ‘spirits’.
It was very clear to me that the music was coming from somewhere other than me. But if you shut off your brain you will notice that music exists beyond anything that we perceive with our five senses, and we don’t really understand how it is that music exists in the air and comes through us as a vehicle. But it does."

John Frusciante

"The individual man, in introspecting the fact of his own consciousness, also discovers the primordial natural fact of his freedom: his freedom to choose, his freedom to use or not use his reason about any given subject. In short, the natural fact of his "free will." He also discovers the natural fact of his mind's command over his body and its actions: that is, of his natural ownership over his self."

Murray Rothbard

"The world is a mirror, forever reflecting what you are doing, within yourself."

Neville Goddard

"Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate."

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

"There is an alien presence on earth now."

Monsignore Corrado Balducci

"Every theory that is dualist, panpsychist or idealist agrees that we can study the biological facets of consciousness by studying the brain – but they all claim this will never lead to a complete understanding. In other words, there are limits to how far the scientific method can take us."

Robert Lawrence Kuhn

"Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values."

Ayn Rand

"A dream is a microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul."

Erich Fromm

"Everyone is at a different level of consciousness. Speak about what you have recognized as true. If they don’t want to hear it, simply move on. You can’t convince a baby to walk when it is still at the crawling stage."

Unbekannt

"My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists."

Nikola Tesla