Quotes about Consciousness
Knowledge about a thing is not the thing itself.
— William James
The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work.
— William James
Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying.
— Christian Furchtegott Gellert
Oh, one world at a time!
— Henry David Thoreau
What are the earth and all its interests beside the deep surmise which pierces and scatters them?
— Henry David Thoreau
Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake.
— Henry David Thoreau
There are materials enough in every man's mind to make a hell there.
— Henry Ward Beecher
You are what you pay attention to. No attention, no life. Everything comes to life when you pay attention to
— Leonard Sweet
Things may happen around you, and things may happen to you, but the only things that really count are the things that happen in you."
— Les Brown
The Book of Life says, "As a man thinketh, so is he, and as he continues to think, so he remains."6 Earl Nightingale asked the question: "What's wrong with men today?" He answered the question by saying, "Men simply don't think!" Not only do we often not think, but even when we do think, we think with the world mind. This is why we must re-think our lives!
— Les Brown
We are graced with a greater capacity for direct contact with our own higher power than most of us are in the habit of using.
— Marianne Williamson
And this is the final meaning of work: the extension of human consciousness. The lesser meaning of work is the achieving of self-preservation.
— DH Lawrence