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I Should Just Stop Tweeting, The Human Consciousness Must Raise Before I Speak My Juvenile Philosophy. -- Jaden Smith
Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness. -- Max Planck
We are all working for the immortality of the human consciousness. -- Alejandro Jodorowsky
Human self-understanding changes with time, and so also human consciousness deepens. -- Pope Francis
All I ask is that we compare human consciousness with spirochete ecology. -- Lynn Margulis
Every day, I read books on philosophy and science fiction and human consciousness. -- Tom DeLonge
The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness. -- J. M. Coetzee
The first light of human consciousness and the world's first civilizations were in Africa. -- John Henrik Clarke
The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death. -- D. H. Lawrence
I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness. -- Norman Spinrad
I think people are isolated because of the nature of human consciousness, and they like it when they feel the connection between themselves and someone else. -- James Taylor
I'm interested in a lot of different things, but first and foremost I'm into the idea of human consciousness, and Angels & Airwaves is a byproduct of that. -- Tom DeLonge
The evolution of humans can not only be seen as the grand total of their wars; it is also defined by the evolution of the human mind and the development of the human consciousness. -- Friedrich Durrenmatt
From an evolutionary standpoint, human consciousness has not been around very long. A little light just went on after four and a half billion years. How often does that happen? Maybe it is quite rare. -- Elon Musk
I've always wanted people to know who they are from the inside. Then they can create the life they desire and deserve. I've always believed that my job was to facilitate the evolution of the human consciousness. -- Iyanla Vanzant
The inner world is very potent for me - I don't ascribe to any God or Jesus or Buddha - I just have a sense of it and revere it along with the natural world and human consciousness. -- Annie Lennox
Religion has endured since the dawn of human consciousness precisely because it encompasses so much of being human. No idea has endured so long, gathered up so many disparate needs and wants and feelings, and inspired so many different paths towards understanding it. -- Robert Winston
If the clockwork universe equated the human body with the mechanics of the clock, the digital universe now equates human consciousness with the processing of the computer. We joke that things don't compute, that we need a reboot, or that our memory has been wiped. -- Douglas Rushkoff
Narrative has been part of human consciousness for a long time. And if it has played a part in all those thousands of years, it will know a trick or two. It will be wise. It will be mischievous. It will be helpful. It will be generous. -- Jim Crace
When I was 10 years old, a cousin of mine took me on a tour of his medical school. And as a special treat, he took me to the pathology lab and took a real human brain out of the jar and placed it in my hands. And there it was, the seat of human consciousness, the powerhouse of the human body, sitting in my hands. -- Aditi Shankardass
Nothing exists except through human consciousness -- George Orwell
Imagination is the primary gift of human consciousness. -- Ken Robinson
Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery. -- Daniel Dennett
Reading is entering into the consciousness of another human being. -- Gary Shteyngart
This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness. -- Michael Pollan
Human forms are perpetuated through sex, and sex also perpetuates human consciousness. -- Vanna Bonta
What we need is a new consciousness concerning the idea of human liberty. -- Llewellyn Rockwell
E-Motion will have a very positive impact on the evolution of human consciousness -- Bruce H. Lipton
Human consciousness becomes a terrible gift which challenges the power that gave it. -- Alison Jolly
All descriptions of matter are descriptions of modes of human perception within consciousness. -- Deepak Chopra
Art always helps religion; it became an inseparable phenomenon when human beings gained consciousness. -- Hiroshi Sugimoto
When brains get sufficiently big, presumably, as human brains have, consciousness seems to emerge. -- Richard Dawkins
The pinnacle of human consciousness must be the rejection of unhealthy competition, war and violence. -- Bryant McGill
When it comes to society and human consciousness, Darwinism still exists in its primal message. -- Kat Lahr
The miracle and hope of human consciousness is that we can still conceive of boundlessness. -- John Green
Mathematics is the handwriting on the human consciousness of the very Spirit of Life itself. -- Claude Fayette Bragdon
Perhaps every moment of time lived in human consciousness remains in the air around us. -- Susan Griffin
I have no sense of nationalism, only a cosmic consciousness of belonging to the human family. -- Rosika Schwimmer
Nothing so reduces and drags down a human being as the consciousness of not being loved. -- Hjalmar SÃ¶derberg
Human consciousness is too obscure a mystery to itself for us to script our own lives. -- Robert Jenson
If there is any characteristic that is distinctly human, it is the capability for reflective self-consciousness. -- Albert Bandura
Why should the peculiarities of human consciousness be the narrow standard by which other creatures are judged? -- Gary Snyder
A genuinely fundamental and hopeful improvement in "systems" cannot happen without a significant shift in human consciousness. -- Vaclav Havel
I really think that if there's any one enemy to human creativity, especially creative writing, it's self-consciousness. -- Andre Dubus
Language comes into being, like consciousness, from the basic need, from the scantiest intercourse with other human. -- Karl Marx
Its really important to understand the difference between sentience and consciousness, which are important for human beings. -- Stuart J. Russell
Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness a more humane society will not emerge. -- Vaclav Havel
Montaigne [puts] not self-satisfied understanding but a consciousness astonished at itself at the core of human existence. -- Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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Without raising human consciousness, whatever we do in the world will only lead to more and more suffering. -- Jaggi Vasudev
Nature is favourable to our effort when human awareness is being established more and more in pure consciousness. -- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
The old will disappear. Human level consciousness by itself can no longer resolve the complexities it has created. -- David Spangler
Consciousness is not personal. Human consciousness is just an expression of universal consciousness, which pervades the entire universe. -- Eckhart Tolle
It's the nature of human consciousness to look for trouble constantly, and we find it. We find it. -- James Taylor
What is most needed right now is evolving human consciousness. Without that, science, technology, development, everything will go waste. -- Jaggi Vasudev
Turning points in human consciousness occur when new energy regimes converge with new communications revolutions, creating new economic eras. -- Jeremy Rifkin
Trying to change social, national, or global realities without working on human consciousness means there is no serious intention. -- Jaggi Vasudev
If the Internet can be described as a giant human consciousness, then viral marketing is the illusion of free will. -- George Pendle
The mission of the theatre, after all, is to change, to raise the consciousness of people to their human possibilities. -- Arthur Miller
All the good, fine, noble, and creative acts of humanity were conceived as a spark in a single human consciousness. -- Peter McWilliams
Human consciousness is now being drawn inexorably toward the same issues, the gaze of collective attention focused like never before. -- Anodea Judith
Gratitude is one of the chief graces of human existence and is crowned in heaven with a consciousness of unity. -- Ernest Holmes
These are planes of consciousness, and I think human beings exist on two planes of consciousness, the soul and the ego. -- Ram Dass
Humanity starts at the level of the human consciousness and makes its deliberate way to the summit, which is God Consciousness. -- Harold Klemp
People involved in the inner journey discover the value of the feminine, the spiritually receptive and inclusive aspect of human consciousness. -- Marianne Williamson
Today, it is more important than ever to raise human consciousness, so that technology becomes a means of empowerment, not destruction. -- Jaggi Vasudev
The pretensions of final truth are always partlyan effort to obscure a darkly felt consciousness of the limits of human knowledge. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
It is only by embracing the full spectrum of human consciousness that we can bring about a true awakening of the heart -- Anodea Judith
The important thing is how much consciousness you add to the whole of human existence, for that is how eternity expresses itself. -- Deepak Chopra
Human life without death would be something other than human; consciousness of mortality gives rise to out deepest longings and greatest accomplishments. -- Leon Kass
To be human is to be aware of the passage of time; no concept lies closer to the core of our consciousness. -- Dan Falk
Our civilisation cannot afford to let the censor-moron loose. The censor-moron does not really hate anything but the living and growing human consciousness. -- D. H. Lawrence
And this is the final meaning of work: the extension of human consciousness. The lesser meaning of work is the achieving of self-preservation. -- D. H. Lawrence
No one in human history has given as much thought to the interweaving of altered states of consciousness and religion as I have. -- Huston Smith
The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience. -- Orison Swett Marden
If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness. -- M. Esther Harding
It is the power of questions that embolden us and keep us as expectant children, all the while developing the power of human consciousness. -- Dan Sanders
Romanticism was more than merely an alternative to a sterile classicism; romanticism made possible, especially in art, a great expansion of the human consciousness. -- Edward Abbey
When all that's left of us is the pure untainted consciousness without form, we'll know what it means when the last human breath expires. -- Zeena Schreck
If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and the feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness. -- Mary Esther Harding
BLINDSIGHT is fearless: a magnificent, darkly gleaming jewel of a book that hurdles the contradictions inherent in biochemistry, consciousness, and human hearts without breaking stride. -- Elizabeth Bear
If the world is to change for the better it must start with a change in human consciousness, in the very humanness of modern man. -- Vaclav Havel
The happy individual is able to renew daily and with full consciousness all the basic expressions of human identity: work, love, communication, play, and rest. -- Robert Grudin
The human being is flesh and consciousness, body and soul; his heart is an abyss which can only be filled by that which is godly. -- Olivier Messiaen
On human levels of consciousness one may emphasize getting and having as the prime goals, in spiritual consciousness he seeks the way of giving and being. -- Eric Butterworth
Works of Art are meant to connect the human heart to inspiration, for cosmic consciousness to grow in the Supreme Reality rooted in Life and Being. -- Nelly Mazloum
Human kind gradually begins to remove the blinders from their consciousness about life, about what is real and what is not. Intuition and psychic abilities increase. -- Elaine Seiler
Our greatest human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain. -- Tom Robbins
The history of human consciousness is marked by the battle between the old awareness, the ways of fear, and the new awareness, the ways of love. -- Al Berto
The human race is evolving to the realization that what is happening on the level of consciousness both precedes and determines what happens in the world. -- Marianne Williamson
I'm not the first person to have discovered evidence that consciousness exists beyond the body. Brief, wonderful glimpses of this realm are as old as human history. -- Eben Alexander
Higher thought forms trump lower ones. In the presence of a high frequency of human consciousness, all lower thought forms ultimately drop of their own dead weight. -- Marianne Williamson
For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human form of consciousness I simply cannot tell. -- Josiah Royce
What we see in this world is a gross abnormality. The human consciousness fails to perceive the very simple, divine nature of every atom in every moment. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob; it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right. -- Ray Stannard Baker
But it has, in addition, an even more precious quality - a consciousness of the human intelligence, the human spirit and that man is a social creature. -- Norman McLaren
There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. -- John Green
Consciousness is endless, from one incarnation to the next. It simply will and does manifest in other places and times, regardless of what becomes of the human race. -- Zeena Schreck
Human beings are made of body, mind and spirit. Of these, spirit is primary, for it connects us to the source of everything, the eternal field of consciousness. -- Deepak Chopra
P33- Oppression is domesticating. Gravest obstacle to the achievement of liberation is that oppressive reality absorbs those within it and thereby acts to submerge human beings consciousness. -- Paulo Freire
Think about our dilemma on this planet. If the expansion of consciousness does not loom large in the human future, what kind of future is it going to be? -- Terence McKenna
As each human being is an integral part of the collective human consciousness, they affect the world much more deeply than is visible on the surface of their lives. -- Eckhart Tolle
The idea that I really like is December 21st, 2012. Try to get a global moment of collective reflection as a way to bring about an uptick in human consciousness. -- Daniel Pinchbeck
A human being is bound by emotion, enslaved by their desires. A person is never really at peace with themselves because they live in the spectrum of human consciousness. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Not long ago, a novelist could believe he could have an effect on our consciousness of terror. Today, the men who shape and inflence human consciousness are the terrorists. -- Don DeLillo
Human nature is the same now as when Adam hid from the presence of God; the consciousness of wrong makes us unwilling to meet those whom we have offended. -- Matthew Simpson
A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action. The desire for success implants 'success consciousness' which, in turn, creates a vigorous and ever-increasing 'habit of success'. -- Paul J. Meyer
How small the cosmos (a kangaroo's pouch would hold it), how paltry and puny in comparison to human consciousness, to a single individual recollection, and its expression in words! -- Vladimir Nabokov
We sit here on the oasis of human consciousness and the verbal plane trying to talk about something that we just have to go and see and do and feel. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Psychology, so dedicated to awakening human consciousness, needs to wake itself up to one of the most ancient human truths: we cannot be studied or cured apart from the planet. -- James Hillman
I'm a recovering drug addict, so it's not a subject that I take lightly, but I do agree that the criminalization of narcotics is the deliberate inhibition of human consciousness. -- Russell Brand
Neither physical science nor psychology can ever 'explain' human consciousness. To me then, human consciousness lies outside science, and it is here that I seek the relationship between God and man. -- Nevill Francis Mott
As each of us awakens, it impacts human consciousness at a collective level. It is like dropping a tiny pebble of light into a dark pool of unconsciousness . Ripples of light! -- Leonard Jacobson
I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events. -- William S. Burroughs
We must know, if only in order to learn not to know. The supreme lesson of human consciousness is to learn how not to know. That is, how not to interfere. -- D. H. Lawrence
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LSD...reinforc ed my sense of what was important-creat ing great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could. -- Steve Jobs
Time and again human consciousness fixates, and slams the door on its greatest gift, the open-endedness of infinite possibility. As a result we do not experience reality but merely our concept of it. -- Jose Arguelles
Shouldn't I join the ranks of philosophers and merely make unsubstantiated claims about the wonders of human consciousness? Shouldn't I stop trying to do some science and keep my head down? Indeed not. -- Kevin Warwick
The essence of God is consciousness. Consciousness can be used for either violence or peace; the choice is ours. When it is expanded, human consciousness chooses non-violence, since that is compatible with love. -- Deepak Chopra

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