Karma, when properly understood, is just the mechanics through which consciousness manifests. – Deepak Chopra
As the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation back to itself, and so gathers with itself. – Martin Heidegger
Tragedy takes us to the very state of consciousness which, were we to hold to it, would go far toward preventing further tragedies. – Marianne Williamson
My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious. – Karl Kraus
By subliminal, I mean things that occur in our world that are below the threshold of consciousness but do have a psychological effect on us. – Leonard Mlodinow
Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
There is one unity, unified wholeness, total natural law, in the transcendental unified consciousness. – Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Sensation is not the conduction of a quality or state of external bodies to consciousness, but the conduction of a quality or state of our nerves to consciousness, excited by an external cause. – Johannes P. Muller
Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses. – Seamus Heaney
The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness. – Robert Delaunay
Contemplation is an alternative consciousness that refuses to identify with or feed what are only passing shows. It is the absolute opposite of addiction, consumerism or any egoic consciousness. – Richard Rohr
When brains get sufficiently big, presumably, as human brains have, consciousness seems to emerge. – Richard Dawkins
It pains me to see the gap that exists in the public’s consciousness – religious and secular – between the notion of Israel as a Jewish state and as a democratic state. – Reuven Rivlin
The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness. – Wilhelm Wundt
God guides us from within. He does nothing more than that. There is no charm in God shaping us like a potter. We are not earthen wares; we are beings full of consciousness. – Vinoba Bhave
The most violent and troubling stories become part of our national consciousness about foster care. – Vanessa Diffenbaugh