Quotes about Consciousness

Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification.

That which you call your soul or spirit is your consciousness, and that which you call 'free will' is your mind's freedom to think or not, the only will you have, your only freedom, the choice that controls all the choices you make and determines your life and your character.

They lay in bed together that night, and they did not know when they slept, the intervals of exhausted unconsciousness as intense an act of union as the convulsed meetings of their bodies.

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Whatever we are, whatever we make of ourselves, is all we will ever have — and that, in its profound simplicity, is the meaning of life.

The entire world above you, around you, beneath you, and beside you, is insignificant in comparison to the world within you.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

The choice to be used as an instrument of love, right here, right now, is a choice for personal empowerment.

We are just a little tiny flicker of a much larger flame that is Life itself, Consciousness itself, Being itself, Love itself, God's very self.

For a moment I had felt elation as on the instant of waking before one remembers.

Fear is the original sin," suddenly said a still, small voice away back—back—back of Valancy's consciousness. "Almost all the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something." Valancy stood up. She was still in the clutches of fear, but her soul was her own again. She would not be false to that inner voice.

One would not drink of the cup of forgetfulness if one could.