Consciousness Quotes

"The brain is wider than the sky " "The trouble is that once you see it, you can't unsee it. And once you've seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing, becomes as political an act as speaking out." "Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed" "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream" "Freedom is the essence of self-consciousness." "The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom." "Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law." "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." "Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are" "We are an impossibility in an impossible universe" "To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them" "Is there no way out of the mind?" "Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into" "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom" "If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is: infinite" "One thought fills immensity" "See things in the present, even if they are in the future" "Our consciousness is a part of the whole and by acting compassionately, think about it, we're rooting for the whole " "People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think that what we're seeking is an experience of being alive"