Explore a collection of the most beloved and motivational quotes and sayings about Consciousness. Share these powerful messages with your loved ones on social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, or on your personal blog, and inspire the world with their wisdom. We've compiled the Top 100 Consciousness Quotes and Sayings from 83 influential authors, including Parker J. Palmer,Max Tegmark,Emil Cioran,Fred Alan Wolf,Ken Wilber, for you to enjoy and share.

Consciousness precedes being: consciousness, yours and mine, can form, deform, or reform our world. Our complicity in world making is a source of awesome and sometimes painful responsibility-and a source of profound hope for change. It is the ground of our common call to leadership, the truth that makes leaders of its all. By Parker J. Palmer Consciousness Deform Mine Form Source

I think that consciousness is the way information feels when being processed in certain complex ways. By Max Tegmark Consciousness Information Feels Processed Complex

It is our discomforts which provoke, which create consciousness; their task accomplished, they weaken and disappear one after the other. Consciousness however remains and survives them, without recalling what it owes to them, without even ever having known. Hence it continually proclaims its autonomy, its sovereignty, even when it loathes itself and would do away with itself. By Emil Cioran Provoke Accomplished Consciousness Discomforts Create

Consciousness is the creative element in the universe. Without it, nothing would appear. By Fred Alan Wolf Consciousness Universe Creative Element

I don't talk about consciousness. I talk about interiority. By Ken Wilber Consciousness Talk Interiority

Consciousness is the fact that we think and feel and that a world, the world shows up for us. By Alva Noe Consciousness World Fact Feel Shows

Consciousness is everywhere, let it fill you up. By Jay Woodman Consciousness Fill

The centermost processes of the brain with which consciousness is presumably associated are simply not understood. They are so far beyond our comprehension that no one I know of has been able to imagine their nature. By Roger Wolcott Sperry Understood Centermost Processes Brain Consciousness

Our consciousness, a startling outgrowth of the universe, is possibly its most important part, the fraction of existence that can think, feel, marvel at itself. By Alan Moore Feel Consciousness Universe Part Marvel

Consciousness is the chronic pain of life, and all higher organisms suffer it every waking moment. By David Marusek Consciousness Life Moment Chronic Pain

Consciousness is a singular of which the plural is unknown. There is only one thing and that which seems to be a plurality is merely a series of different aspects of this one thing, produced by a deception, the Indian maya, as in a gallery of mirrors. By Erwin Schrodinger Consciousness Unknown Singular Plural Thing

I think that consciousness has always been the most important topic in the philosophy of mind, and one of the most important topics in cognitive science as a whole, but it had been surprisingly neglected in recent years. By David Chalmers Important Mind Years Topic Topics

Consciousness in the individual is that area where the totality of life is located. By Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Consciousness Located Individual Area Totality

Consciousness is a pitiful hostage of its flesh-envelope, whose surges, circuits, and secret murmurings it cannot stay or speed. This is the chthonian drama that has no climax but only an enedless round, cycle upon cycle. Microcosm mirrors macrocosm. Free will is stillborn in the red cells of our body, for there is no free will in nature. Our choices come to us prepackaged and special delivery, molded by hands not our own. By Camille Paglia Circuits Consciousness Fleshenvelope Surges Speed

Consciousness is eternal, and it is part of you. By Amy Leigh Mercree Consciousness Eternal Part

Consciousness is a magic of our brain and an illusion of our mind. By Debasish Mridha Consciousness Mind Magic Brain Illusion

The true understanding of life and its purposes comes from an understanding of consciousness. By Debasish Mridha Understanding Consciousness True Life Purposes

Consciousness poses the most baffling problems in the science of the mind. There is nothing that we know more intimately than conscious experience, but there is nothing that is harder to explain. By David Chalmers Consciousness Mind Poses Baffling Problems

The mind and the breath are the king and queen of human consciousness. By Leonard D. Orr Consciousness Mind Breath King Queen

[Consciousness] is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation. By C.s. Lewis Consciousness Illusion Revelation Inexplicable

All speech, action and behavior are fluctuations of consciousness. All life emerges from, and is sustained in, consciousness. The whole universe is the expression of consciousness. The reality of the universe is one unbounded ocean of consciousness in motion. By Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Consciousness Speech Action Behavior Fluctuations

I believe consciousness is simply what it feels like to have a neocortex. By Jeff Hawkins Neocortex Consciousness Simply Feels

We possess no criterion which enables us to distinguish exactly between a psychical process and a physiological one, between an act occurring in the cerebral cortex and one occurring in the sub-cortical substance; for 'consciousness', whatever that may be, is not attached to every activity of the cerebral cortex, nor is it always attached in an equal degree to any particular one of its activities; it is not a thing which is bound up with any locality in the nervous system. By Sigmund Freud Cerebral Consciousness Occurring Cortex Attached

Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses. By Seamus Heaney Instructed Consciousness Discourses Needing Theoretically

In these few minutes one gets an overwhelming impression of the absolute identity of Body and Mind, and the fact that our highest functions - consciousness and self - are not entities, self-sufficient, "above" the body, but neuropsychological constructs - processes - dependent on the continuity of bodily experience and its integration. By Oliver Sacks Body Mind Selfsufficient Processes Functions

Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being. By Jean-Paul Sartre Consciousness Nature Conscious Nothingness

Consciousness is Gods' gift to mankind. By Albert Hofmann Gods Consciousness Mankind Gift

In order for the study of consciousness to be complete, we need a methodology that would account not only for what is occurring at the neurological and biochemical levels but also for the subjective experience of consciousness itself. By Dalai Lama Xiv Consciousness Complete Order Study Methodology

All consciousness is consciousness of something By Edmund Husserl Consciousness

Consciousness, rather than being an epiphenomenon of matter, is actually the source of matter. It differentiates into space time, energy, information, and matter. Even though this view is an ancient view, an ancient world view, it is now finding some resonance amongst a few scientists. By Deepak Chopra Matter Consciousness View Epiphenomenon Source

There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and the brain. By Stanislav Grof Brain Urgent Radical Revision Current

Whether you think consciousness to be a benefit or a horror, this is only what you think - and nothing else. By Thomas Ligotti Horror Consciousness Benefit

The study of consciousness that can extend beyond the body is extremely important for the issue of survival, since it is this part of human personality that would be likely to survive death. By Stanislav Grof Survival Death Study Consciousness Extend

Three quick breaths triggered the responses: he fell into the floating awareness ... focusing the consciousness ... aortal dilation ... avoiding the unfocused mechanism of consciousness ... to be conscious by choice ... blood enriched and swift-flooding the overload regions ... one does not obtain food-safety freedom by instinct alone ... animal consciousness does not extend beyond the given moment nor into the idea that its victims may become extinct ... the animal destroys and does not produce ... animal pleasures remain close to sensation levels and avoid the perceptual ... the human requires a background grid through which to see his universe ... focused consciousness by choice, this forms your grid ... bodily integrity follows nerve-blood flow according to the deepest awareness of cell needs ... all things/cells/beings are impermanent ... strive for flow-permanence within ... By Frank Herbert Consciousness Responses Quick Breaths Triggered

Consciousness permits us to develop the instruments of culture - morality and justice, religion, art, economics and politics, science and technology. Those instruments allow us some measure of freedom in the confrontation with nature. By Antonio Damasio Religion Art Consciousness Culture Morality

Your consciousness will make you conscious of others By Thabiso Monkoe Consciousness Make Conscious

Life is an empowered exploration towards consciousness development. By Simion Hurghis Life Development Empowered Exploration Consciousness

Consciousness is the foundation of all thinking; and thinking is the foundation of all consciousness. By M. Scott Peck Foundation Consciousness Thinking

The origin of consciousness is the initiation of the sign-user into the world of signs by a sign-giver. By Walker Percy Signgiver Origin Consciousness Initiation Signuser

Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery ... a topic that often leaves even the most sophisticated thinkers tongue-tied and confused. And, as with all of the earlier mysteries, there are many who insist - and hope - that there will never be a demystification of consciousness. By Daniel Dennett Human Mystery Surviving Consciousness Confused

Consciousness is not about information but about its opposite: order. By Tor Norretranders Order Consciousness Opposite Information

Long before art and science and philosophy arose, consciousness had but one function: not to merely implement motor commands, but to mediate between commands in opposition. In a submerged body starving for air, it's difficult to imagine two imperatives more opposed than the need to breathe and the need to hold your breath. As one Prismatic told me, Put yourself in one of those things, and tell me you aren't more intensely conscious than you've ever been in your life. By Peter Watts Commands Long Arose Consciousness Function

The emergence of consciousness, like the unfolding of a leaf, relies upon restraint. By Peter Atkins Consciousness Leaf Relies Restraint Emergence

The terrifying dilemma of humankind is to be aware of the magnificent gifts of our unique consciousness, which allows us to live a heightened state of existence while contemporaneously bedeviled with the knowledge that we must die. By Kilroy J. Oldster Consciousness Die Terrifying Dilemma Humankind

Consciousness is an illusion constructed by the memes. By Susan Blackmore Consciousness Memes Illusion Constructed

Although it is difficult to pinpoint the physical base or location of awareness, it is perhaps the most precious thing concealed within our brains. And it is something that the individual alone can feel and experience. Each of us cherishes it highly, yet it is private. By Dalai Lama Awareness Brains Difficult Pinpoint Physical

I can't tell you what consciousness is, but I know I can only think when I am conscious. By Debasish Mridha Conscious Consciousness

Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance. By William Ralph Inge Consciousness Phase Mental Life Arises

Consciousness, when it's unburdened by the body, is something that's ecstatic; we use the mind to watch the mind, and that's the meta-nature of our consciousness; we know that we know that we know, and that's such a delicious feeling, but when it's unburdened by biology and entropy, it becomes more than delicious: it becomes magical. By Jason Silva Consciousness Unburdened Mind Delicious Body

Consciousness and awareness are the sources of all possibilities and infinite creativity. By Debasish Mridha Consciousness Creativity Awareness Sources Possibilities

To grasp life and meaning, we assume constancy where it does not exist. We name experiences, emotions, and subjective states and assume that what is named is as enduring as its name. Human beings blessed and cursed with consciousness - especially consciousness of their own being - think in terms of names, words, symbols. By James Bugental Meaning Exist Assume Grasp Life

Consciousness is a state of existence where subjects are aware of their surroundings and can respond to its demands according to internal and external perceptions. By Debasish Mridha Consciousness Perceptions State Existence Subjects

Consciousness is the ultimate Reality; compared with it, all else is illusion. By Harold Percival Reality Consciousness Compared Illusion Ultimate

Consciousness is a disease. By Miguel De Unamuno Consciousness Disease

What we call consciousness is our ability to perceive stimuli and to file it within the parameters of our personal story. By Steve Maraboli Story Call Consciousness Ability Perceive

Modern man has the possibility of understanding the mechanism of consciousness, and marching directly towards his objective, with the will flexed to its maximum efficiency. By Colin Wilson Modern Consciousness Objective Efficiency Man

Life is a dance of consciousness. By Debasish Mridha Life Consciousness Dance

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue. By Henry James Experience Limited Complete Sensibility Consciousness

Man's consciousness not only reflects the objective world, but creates it. By Vladimir Lenin Man World Consciousness Reflects Objective

Consciousness is a born hermit. By George Santayana Consciousness Hermit Born

Origins and History of ConsciousnessIII.It's simple to wake from sleep with a stranger,dress, go out, drink coffee,enter a life again. It isn't simpleto wake from sleep into the neighborhoodof one neither strange nor familiarwhom we have chosen to trust. Trusting, untrusting,we lowered ourselves into this, let ourselvesdownward hand over hand as on a rope that quiveredover the unsearched ... . We did this. Conceivedof each other, conceived each other in a darknesswhich I remember as drenched in light. I want to call this, life.But I can't call it life until we start to movebeyond this secret circle of firewhere our bodies are giant shadows flung on a wallwhere the night becomes our inner darkness, and sleepslike a dumb beast, head on her paws, in the corner. By Adrienne Rich History Wake Sleep Origins Simple

There is machinery in the mind that is consciousness. Knowing the machine is the dawn of a new era. By Allan Wesler Consciousness Machinery Mind Knowing Era

Consciousness is the one thing in this universe that cannot be an illusion By Sam Harris Consciousness Illusion Thing Universe

We are not consciousness; we are the byproducts of consciousness. By Debasish Mridha Consciousness Byproducts

The world consists of images on a screen, and consciousness is the steady light that emanates from the projector. By Deepak Chopra Screen Projector World Consists Images

The great mystery of our consciousness is beyond our grasp. By William Shatner Grasp Great Mystery Consciousness

Consciousness is in this present moment, the awareness with every cell in your body the direct and experience of love. By Matthew Donnelly Consciousness Moment Love Present Awareness

You are the expression of consciousness; your thoughts are the expression of you. By Debasish Mridha Expression Consciousness Thoughts

Growth of consciousness does not depend on the might of the intellect but on the conviction of the heart. By Wayne Gerard Trotman Growth Heart Consciousness Depend Intellect

There's no consciousness without senses and memories. By Toba Beta Memories Consciousness Senses

A conscious mind is the playground for thoughts and ideas and the ultimate source of personal philosophy. By Debasish Mridha Philosophy Conscious Mind Playground Thoughts

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. By Alan Watts Nervous System Consciousness Isolated Soul

Control over consciousness is not simply a cognitive skill. At least as much as intelligence, it requires the commitment of emotions and will. It is not enough to know how to do it; one must do it, consistently, in the same way as athletes or musicians who must keep practicing what they know in theory. By Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Control Skill Consciousness Simply Cognitive

While there seem to be many things to manage in the world, the most important thing to manage is your consciousness. By Alan Cohen Manage World Consciousness Important Things

Consciousness is the materia poetica that Shakespeare sculpts as Michelangelo sculpts marble. We feel the consciousness of Hamlet or Iago, and our own consciousness strangely expands. By Harold Bloom Shakespeare Michelangelo Sculpts Marble Consciousness

Consciousness is our only reprieve from Time. By Mason Cooley Time Consciousness Reprieve

People into hard sciences, neurophysiology, often ignore a core philosophical question: 'What is the relationship between our unique, inner experience of conscious awareness and material substance?' The answer is: We don't know, and some people are so terrified to say, 'I don't know.' By Raymond Moody Neurophysiology Sciences Question Unique Substance

When I tried to understand consciousness, I found out how simple it was, but we try to make it so complicated. By Debasish Mridha Consciousness Complicated Understand Found Simple

Consciousness grows independent of the ordinary senses. By Charles Lindbergh Consciousness Senses Grows Independent Ordinary

Consciousness, unprovable by scientific standards, is forever, then, the impossible phantom in the predictable biologic machine, and your every thought a genuine supernatural event. Your every thought is a ghost, dancing. By Alan Moore Consciousness Unprovable Standards Forever Machine

Consciousness is a precondition of being. By C. G. Jung Consciousness Precondition

Who are you? Consciousness that has become conscious of itself. By Eckhart Tolle Consciousness Conscious

It's all real and it's all illusory: that's Awareness! By Ram Dass Awareness Illusory Real

You know, mind allows us to portray in different sensory modalities, visual, auditory, olfactory, you name it, what we are like and what the world is like. But this very, very important quality of subjectivity, this quality that allows us to take a distant view and say, "I am here, I exist, I have a life and there are things around me that refer to me." That me-ness, M-E-hyphen, that is what really constitutes consciousness. By Antonio Damasio Visual Auditory Olfactory Mind Modalities

If all is Consciousness, experience its infinity, create your own journey through it, be amazed. By Jay Woodman Consciousness Experience Create Amazed Journey

The inception of human consciousness, the genesis of awareness, must have entailed prolonged 'condensations' around intractable nodes of wonder and terror, at the discriminations to be made between the self and the other, between being and non-being (the discovery of the scandal of death). By George Steiner Consciousness Awareness Prolonged Condensations Terror

Consciousness creates the body. Our bodies are made up of dynamic energy systems that are affected by our diets, relationships, heredity, and culture and the interplay of all these factors and activities ... We cannot hope to reclaim our bodily wisdom and inherent ability to create health without first understanding the influence of our society on how we think about and care for our bodies. By Christiane Northrup Consciousness Body Bodies Relationships Heredity

Consciousness is naturally shamanic. By Joy Manne Consciousness Shamanic Naturally

Consciousness is the process of creating a model of the world using multiple feedback loops in various parameters (e.g., in temperature, space, time, and in relation to others), in order to accomplish a goal (e.g., find mates, food, shelter). I call this the "space-time theory of consciousness, By Michio Kaku Space Time Food Shelter Parameters

Art is a form of consciousness. By Susan Sontag Art Consciousness Form

Consciousness is the highest word you will ever utter. There is nothing higher or deeper than consciousness. By Michael A. Singer Utter Consciousness Highest Word Higher

There is an ocean of pure vibrant consciousness inside each one of us. By David Lynch Ocean Pure Vibrant Consciousness Inside

Consciousness is, among other things, a spontaneous exercise in creativity. You are learning now, in a three-dimensional context, the ways in which your emotional and psychic existence can create varieties of physical form. You manipulate within the psychic environment, and these manipulations are then automatically impressed upon the physical mold. By Seth Consciousness Things Creativity Spontaneous Exercise

We have learned that beneath the surface of an ordinary everyday normal casual conscious existence there lies a vast dynamic world of impulse and dream, a hinterland of energy which has an independent existence of its own and laws of its own: laws which motivate all our thoughts and our actions. By Robert Edmond Jones Existence Laws Dream Actions Learned

Evolution, life, physis, appear here as enveloping with regard to 'consciousness' of human knowledge. By Maurice Merleau Ponty Evolution Life Physis Consciousness Knowledge

When we pause to think, we are compelled to admit the existence of consciousness as the primal and surest fact. What we know of the great world around is known through our states of consciousness, and if we seem to be living a merely objective life, amidst external things, it is because we have become oblivious of the real nature of experience. By Horatio Dresser Consciousness Fact Pause Compelled Admit

In the heart of consciousness is subjectivity, this sense of having a self that observes one's own organism and the world around that organism. That is really the heart of consciousness. By Antonio Damasio Heart Organism Subjectivity Consciousness Sense

I had vainly been seeking a description of consciousness within science; instead, what I and others have to look for is a description of science within consciousness. We must develop a science compatible with consciousness, our primary experience. By Amit Goswami Description Consciousness Science Vainly Seeking

Conflict is the beginning of consciousness. By M. Esther Harding Conflict Consciousness Beginning

The consciousness in each man is a sliding scale, which identifies him now with the First Cause, and now with the flesh of his body; life above life, in infinite degrees. By Ralph Waldo Emerson Life Scale Body Degrees Consciousness