Profoundly inspirational consciousness quotes will challenge the way you think, and help guide you through any life experience.
Famous Consciousness Quotes
No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it. – Albert Einstein
Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way. – Kingsley Amis
Life before consciousness was like blank paper, so be it. – Santosh Kalwar
He who experiences the unity of life sees his own self in all beings, and all being in his own self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye. – Buddha
Everyone and everything that shows up in the world of form in this universe originates not from a particle, as quantum physics teaches us, but from an energy field. That energy field can be called God, soul, spirit, or consciousness. It looks a certain way, sounds a certain way, and feels a certain way. I try to stay in harmony with what I believe it sounds and feels like. – Wayne Dyer
It is everywhere, though we see it not. Just so, dear one, the Self is everywhere within all things, although we see him not. There is nothing that does not come from him. Of everything he is the inmost Self. He is the truth; he is the Self supreme. – The Upanishads
Pure Consciousness, which is the Heart, includes all, and nothing is outside or apart from it. That is the ultimate Truth. – Ramana Maharshi
The Divine is present in everyone, in all Beings, in everything. Like space it is everywhere, all pervading, all powerful, all knowing. The Divine is the principle of Life, the inner Light of Consciousness, and pure bliss. It is our very own self. – Amma
Absolute consciousness is manifest here in every circumstance of daily life because it is everywhere full and perfect. Consciousness is said to be the cause of all things because it is everywhere emergent as each manifest entity. – Abhinavagupta
Unity consciousness is a state of enlightenment where we pierce the mask of illusion which creates separation and fragmentation. Behind the appearance of separation is one unified field of wholeness. Here the seer and the scenery are one. – Deepak Chopra
Christ, Buddha, and Krishna are but waves in the Ocean of Infinite Consciousness that I am! – Swami Vivekananda
Real health has to happen somewhere inside you, in your subjectivity, in your consciousness, because consciousness knows no birth, no death. It is eternal. To be healthy in consciousness means: first, to be awake; second, to be harmonious; third, to be ecstatic; and fourth, to be compassionate. – Rajneesh
God is the Seed; The Universe is the Tree, Impulses and passions are the branches, Intelligence is the flower, Pure Consciousness is the fruit, Love is the sweetness in the fruit. – Sathya Sai Baba
There is a God part in you. The consciousness. The pure Self. Learn to listen the voice of that Power. – Amit Ray
The consciousness in you and the consciousness in me, apparently two, really one, seek unity and that is love. – Nisargadatta Maharaj
Enlightenment is the natural state of consciousness, the innocent state of consciousness, that state which is uncontaminated by the movement of thought, uncontaminated by control or manipulation of mind. – Adyashanti
I am no longer the wave of consciousness thinking itself separated from the sea of cosmic consciousness. I am the ocean of Spirit that has become the wave of human life. – Paramahansa Yogananda
You are the light of consciousness and also the witness of this light. You are pure awareness. – Mooji
It is He who manifests as both matter and consciousness. There is no place where God is not. In every atom, in every living being He alone is present. – Swami Rama
If you shift from compulsiveness to consciousness, being joyful will not be an effort. – Jaggi Vasudev
Paradise is not a place; it’s a state of consciousness. – Sri Chinmoy
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
The consciousness of the seer, is a greater power for knowledge than the consciousness of the thinker. The perceptual power of the inner sight is greater and more direct than the perceptual power of thought. – Sri Aurobindo
As we grow in our consciousness.. there will be more compassion and more love. And then… the barriers between people.. between religions.. and between nations will begin to fall. – Ram Dass
Changing mass consciousness is an individual responsibility. – Dennis Weaver
Consciousness is the perception of what passes in man’s own mind. – John Locke
Without thoughts the mind cannot exist only consciousness. – Avis J. Williams
The consciousness of knowing how to make oneself useful, how to help mankind in many ways, fills the soul with noble confidence, almost religious dignity. – Maria Montessori
Consciousness will not always solve the problem, but it may make the suffering meaningful. – Marion Woodman
Waking consciousness is dreaming, but dreaming constrained by external reality. – Oliver Sacks
Control of consciousness determines the quality of life. – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Consciousness is the creative element in the universe. Without it, nothing would appear. – Fred Alan Wolf
Conflict is the beginning of consciousness. – M. Esther Harding
The great mystery of our consciousness is beyond our grasp. – William Shatner
Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh. – Emile M. Cioran
The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don’t know how or why. Albert Einstein
The bite of conscience is indecent. – Friedrich Nietzsche
The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death. – D. H. Lawrence
You get there by realizing you are already there. – Eckhart Tolle
It’s from our sufferings that we form our consciousness. – Lisa Bonet
To be conscious of being, you need to reclaim consciousness from the mind. This is one of the most essential tasks on your spiritual journey. – Eckhart Tolle
Consciousness is the glory of creation. – James Broughton
Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences. – Robert Anton Wilson
The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness. – Miguel de Unamuno
Consciousness is the stone that creates the waves in a sea of nothing. – Richard Gerber
Through consciousness, our minds have the power to change our planet and ourselves. It is time we heed the wisdom of the ancient indigenous people and channel our consciousness and spirit to tend the garden and not destroy it. – Bruce Lipton
Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness. – Henry Miller
Consciousness is the greatest movie-maker in the whole world. – Mooji
Consciousness is not mind; it is the ground of all being, the ground of both matter and mind. Matter and mind are both possibilities of consciousness. – Amit Goswami
The real history of consciousness starts with one’s first lie. – Joseph Brodsky
Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement. – Aldous Huxley
The ultimate gift of conscious life is a sense of the mystery that encompasses it. – Lewis Mumford
There is no birth of consciousness without pain. – Carl Jung
Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning. – Clifford D. Simak
Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation. – C. S. Lewis
Without consciousness the mind-body problem would be much less interesting. With consciousness it seems hopeless. – Thomas Nagel
The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom. – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness. – Lao Tzu
Consciousness is not in the body; the body is in consciousness. And you are that consciousness. – Dan Millman
Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best. – Andrew Carnegie
Meditation is realizing and expanding your inner beauty in every direction. – Amit Ray
What drains your spirit drains your body. What fuels your spirit fuels your body. – Caroline Myss
When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. – Wayne W. Dyer
Never give a conscious meaning to your unconscious acts! – Ramana Pemmaraju
Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable. – Thomas Nagel
Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to. – David Herbert Lawrence
Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind. – Ramana Maharshi
There is no life without consciousness; there is no consciousness without life. – Annie Besant
It is the inner life that is to spark the change in consciousness that will permit us to advance. – Wayne Teasdale
My experience is what I agree to attend to. – William James