Consciousness Quotes – 72 Insightful Sayings

"Breathing in, I am aware that I am breathing in. Breathing out, I am aware that I am breathing out. Breathing in, I am grateful for this moment. Breathing out, I smile. Breathing in, I am aware of the preciousness of this day. Breathing out, I vow to live deeply in this day."

Thích Nhất Hạnh

"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

"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? The two are so, so different. One is an infinite consciousness capable of being and creating whatever it chooses, the other is an illusion imprisoned by its own perceived and programmed limitations."

David Icke

"The degree of consciousness corresponds to the degree of density or the speed of vibrations. The denser the matter, the less conscious it is."

Georges I. Gurdjieff

"The self is the modern substitute for the soul."

Allan Bloom

"The majority of people are not awake; it is only here and there that we find one even partially awake. Practically all of us, as a result, are living lives that are unworthy almost the name of lives, compared to those we might be living, and that lie within our easy grasp. While it is true that each life is in and of Divine Being, hence always one with it, in order that this great fact bear fruit in individual lives, each one must be conscious of it; he or she must know it in thought, and then live continually in this consciousness."

Ralph Waldo Trine

"A miracle is nothing more nor less than this One who has come into a knowledge of his true identity, of his oneness with the allpervading Wisdom and Power, thus makes it possible for laws higher than the ordinary mind knows of to be revealed to him."

Ralph Waldo Trine

"Quantum physics tells us that nothing that is observed is unaffected by the observer. That statement, from science, holds an enormous and powerful insight. It means that everyone sees a different truth because everyone is creating what they see."

Neale Donald Walsch

"When you feel the suffering of every living thing in your own heart, that is consciousness."

Bhagavad-Gita

"Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates."

H. L. Mencken

"Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking."

H. L. Mencken

"I spoke so much about being a manic-depressive. I want to bring everyone back to my earliest memories of this companion of mine. Some people call this companion I have an ailment, or worse a terrible nightmare from which some people cannot awaken. I know that I have nothing to be ashamed of. I have nothing that should garner a stigma."

Richard Dreyfuss

"The minute you know you're on safe ground, you're dead."

David Bowie

"The hermeneutic consciousness, which must be awakened and kept awake, recognized that in the age of science philosophy's claim of superiority has something chimerical and unreal about it. But though the will of man is more than ever intensifying its criticism of what has gone before to the point of becoming utopian or eschatological consciousness, the hermeneutic consciousness seeks to confront that will with something of the truth of remembrance: with what is still and ever again real."

Hans-Georg Gadamer

"Colorless green ideas sleep furiously."

Noam Chomsky

"To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common."

Friedrich Nietzsche

"If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves, art would be unnecessary."

Henri-Louis Bergson

"I'm lucky to be alive. It took three years of therapy to recover but I did it."

Kevin Sorbo