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Famous Consciousness Quotes
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self conscious, and anything self conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things. Ray Bradbury
The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity. Steven Biko
I used to be self conscious about my height, but then I thought, f*** I’m Harry Potter. Daniel Radcliffe
His intentions were that they should be on fire for Him, conscious of His divine power, realizing the glory of the cross that foreshadows the crown. Smith Wigglesworth
The purpose of life is to know yourself, create yourself, experience yourself as Who You Really Are. There is no other reason to do anything. Neale Donald Walsch
Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response. Mildred Barthel
Once you become self conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else. Mignon McLaughlin
They are one. They are the universe. Shiva isn’t masculine. Shakti isn’t feminine. At the core of their mutual penetration the supreme consciousness opens. Daniel Odier
Once you become self conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else. Mignon McLaughlin
No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it. Albert Einstein
We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. Marianne Williamson
Each of us guard a gate of that can only be unlocked from the inside Marilyn Ferguson
The kingdom is not an exclusive, well trimmed suburb with snobbish rules about who can live there. No, it is for a larger, homelier, less self conscious caste of people who understand they are sinners because they have experienced the yaw and pitch of moral struggle. Brennan Manning
It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die. Steven Biko
In moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy but always against one’s own body. George Orwell
Our difficulty is that human consciousness has not adjusted itself to a relational and integrated view of nature. We must see that consciousness is neither an isolated soul nor the mere function of a single nervous system, but of that totality of interrelated stars and galaxies which makes a nervous system possible.
You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you. Robert Anton Wilson
Our business is to wake up. We have to find ways in which to detect the whole of reality in the one illusory part which our self centered consciousness permits us to see. We must not live thoughtlessly, taking our illusion for the complete reality, but at the same time we must not live too thoughtfully in the sense of trying to escape from the dream state. We must be continuously on our watch for ways in which we may enlarge our consciousness.
We never really know what might be beside us or ahead, but most days we walk as if we do. Katherine Catmull
There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion. Aldous Huxley
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate. Carl Jung, via Atomic Habits
You do your best work when you’re not conscious of yourself. Peter Matthiessen
No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it. Albert Einstein
Life, too, is senseless unless you know who you are, what you want, and which way the wind blows. Ellen Raskin
Karma, when properly understood, is just the mechanics through which consciousness manifests. Deepak Chopra
We all self conscious. I’m just the first to admit it. Kanye West
You are one thing only. You are a Divine Being. An all powerful Creator. You are a Deity in jeans and a t shirt, and within you dwells the infinite wisdom of the ages and the sacred creative force of All that is, will be and ever was. Anthon St. Maarten
It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them. Henry James
World is a multi dimensional reality. At lower level it is full with unconsciousness and competitiveness. At higher level it is full with beauty, bliss and divinity. Focus on higher dimensions. Amit Ray,
I’m one of the world’s most self conscious people. I really have to struggle. Marilyn Monroe
The slower frequencies are dropping away to be replaced by the faster, higher, more refined frequencies that are part of the Energetic Evolution. Elaine Seiler
Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It is the theory that the experiences undergone by boys at the great public schools, their glories and disappointments, are so intense as to dominate their lives and to arrest their development. From these it results that the greater part of the ruling class remains adolescent, school minded, self conscious, cowardly, sentimental, and in the last analysis homosexual. Cyril Connolly
The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another’s state of consciousness. Paul Twitchell
To me, growing into spiritual maturity is becoming less self conscious and more God conscious. Mark Batterson
The purpose of life is to know yourself, create yourself, experience yourself as Who You Really Are. There is no other reason to do anything. Neale Donald Walsch
You cannot help another who will not help him or herself. In the end, all souls must walk their path and the reason they are walking a particular path may not be clear to us or even to them at the level of ordinary human consciousness. Do what you can to help others, of course. Show love and caring whenever and wherever you can. But do not get caught up in someone else’s story to the point where you start writing it. Neale Donald Walsch
Once you become self conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else. Mignon McLaughlin
I am a human being, not a human being. Don’t equate your self-worth with how well you do things in life. You aren’t what you do. If you are what you do, then when you don’t you aren’t. Wayne Dyer
The kingdom is not an exclusive, well trimmed suburb with snobbish rules about who can live there. No, it is for a larger, homelier, less self conscious caste of people who understand they are sinners because they have experienced the yaw and pitch of moral struggle. Brennan Manning
Basically, you can live your life in one of two ways. You can let your brain run you the way it has in the past. You can let it flash any picture or sound or feeling, and you can respond automatically on cue, like a Pavlovian dog responding to a bell. Or you can choose to consciously run your brain yourself.
You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you. Robert Anton Wilson
You can implant the cues you want. You can take bad experiences and sap them of their strength and power. You can represent them to yourself in a way that no longer overpowers you, a way that cuts them down to a size where you know you can effectively handle things. Tony Robbins
If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion. Aldous Huxley
You are not ‘in the now;’ you are the now. That is your essential identity the only thing that never changes. Life is always now. Now is consciousness. And consciousness is who you are. That’s the equation. Eckhart Tolle , Self conscious quotes change
Life, too, is senseless unless you know who you are, what you want, and which way the wind blows. Ellen Raskin
Do not allow yourself to suppress your thoughts. Instead, let the thoughts come before you and become a sort of observer. Start observing your own mind. Do not try to escape; do not be afraid of your thinking. Rama Swami
It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to undervalue them. Henry James
The best thing about bugs is their lack of self consciousness, also the ability to fly doesn’t hurt. Dov Davidoff
To me, growing into spiritual maturity is becoming less self conscious and more God conscious. Mark Batterson
Character is the spiritual body of the person, and represents the individualization of vital experience, the conversion of unconscious things into self conscious men. Edwin Percy Whipple
Do not allow yourself to suppress your thoughts. Instead, let the thoughts come before you and become a sort of observer. Start observing your own mind. Do not try to escape; do not be afraid of your thinking. Rama Swami
The Ego, however, is not who you really are. The ego is your self image; it is your social mask; it is the role you are playing. Your social mask thrives on approval. It wants control, and it is sustained by power, because it lives in fear. Deepak Chopra
Character is the spiritual body of the person, and represents the individualization of vital experience, the conversion of unconscious things into self conscious men. Edwin Percy Whipple
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. Norman Vincent Peale
A self conscious society will therefore endeavor to limit sect forming by providing for the widest possible diffusion of secular knowledge. Edward Alsworth Ross
There’s something a lot more self conscious feeling when there’s cameras coming in for close ups. It makes you very aware. Tig Notaro
The dream world, the true freedom of the imagination, does not open to self conscious manipulation. Wendy Beckett
A self conscious society will therefore endeavor to limit sect forming by providing for the widest possible diffusion of secular knowledge. Edward Alsworth Ross
The less self conscious you are about what you are about, the better in a way, that is to say technically. You have to get it in your blood, not in the head. Flannery O’Connor
It is only when you have become that true Self consciously, when all these illusions have fallen away, that you will be perfectly free and perfectly happy. Frederick Lenz
The Light in you is the unalterable truth of who you are. You can deny it and obscure it, but you cannot uncreate it. Marianne Williamson
The dream world, the true freedom of the imagination, does not open to self conscious manipulation. Wendy Beckett
I never believed in love at first sight, until I met Derek. It’s all consuming and delicious and wonderful and exciting. At the same time, it makes me nervous and self conscious and emotional. Love exists. I know it does, because I’m madly, deeply, hopelessly in love. Simone Elkeles
If you know that someone is going to hear what you’re doing, you’re always going to be self conscious about it. In a way that’s good; it spurs you on. Doug Martsch
Political correctness is a bit like a granny, a maiden aunt arriving at a party when everyone’s having a good time. And she comes in, they all start sort of buttoning up and becoming self conscious and behaving properly and then when she leaves, you can have fun again. John Cleese
The less self conscious you are about what you are about, the better in a way, that is to say technically. You have to get it in your blood, not in the head. Flannery O’Connor
Political correctness is a bit like a granny, a maiden aunt arriving at a party when everyone’s having a good time. And she comes in, they all start sort of buttoning up and becoming self conscious and behaving properly and then when she leaves, you can have fun again. John Cleese
What does it mean to be a self conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for worms. Ernest Becker
When we are self conscious, we cannot be wholly aware; we must throw ourselves out first. This throwing ourselves away is the act of creativity. Madeleine L’Engle
The Light in you is the unalterable truth of who you are. You can deny it and obscure it, but you cannot uncreate it. Marianne Williamson
At the gym, men are just as self conscious and check themselves out in the mirror just as much as women do. In regards to cooking, men can do more than BBQ. All you need to do is ask but be sure to do it after the game! Oh, and, men do like salads, especially if they are topped off with bacon! Chuck Hughes
Health, wealth, beauty, and genius are not created; they are only manifested by the arrangement of your mind that is, by your concept of yourself, and your concept of yourself is all that you accept and consent to as true. Neville Goddard
I really love hanging out on the set, and I love life, and all of that. But I don’t think I could stick with this profession if it weren’t for those 15 minutes a day when I get to act. That’s the part I love. For some strange reason, it’s the time that I’m the least self conscious in my whole life. William H. Macy
I never believed in love at first sight, until I met Derek. It’s all consuming and delicious and wonderful and exciting. At the same time, it makes me nervous and self conscious and emotional. Love exists. I know it does, because I’m madly, deeply, hopelessly in love. Simone Elkeles
If I had been more self conscious about being a woman, it would have stifled me. Marissa Mayer
Political correctness is a bit like a granny, a maiden aunt arriving at a party when everyone’s having a good time. And she comes in, they all start sort of buttoning up and becoming self conscious and behaving properly and then when she leaves, you can have fun again. John Cleese
When I moved to London in the 1990s, it had changed a great deal. Racism had become deeply uncool. But there has been a return of racism in the guise of antiterrorism. People who look like myself are immediately suspect. I’ve become extremely self conscious about going into crowded public places. Pankaj Mishra
Political correctness is a bit like a granny, a maiden aunt arriving at a party when everyone’s having a good time. And she comes in, they all start sort of buttoning up and becoming self conscious and behaving properly and then when she leaves, you can have fun again. John Cleese
As we become more mature we will learn to master the interplay between the past and the present and not be so self conscious of our rejection or acceptance of tradition. We will not make the mistake that both rigid modernists and conservatives make, of confusing the quality of form with the specific forms themselves. Alvin Lustig
With mindfulness the practice of peace we can begin by working to transform the wars in ourselves. Conscious breathing helps us do this. Nhat Hanh
The early Stones were adolescent rockers. They were self-conscious in an obvious and unpretentious way. And they were committed to a musical style that needed no justification because it came so naturally to them. As they grew musically the mere repetition of old rock and blues tunes became increasingly less satisfying. Jon Landau
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